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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Springfield, MO

April 24, 2007Camden County, Laclede County, Pulaski County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Apr 24, 2007, 10:12 PM CDT for Camden County, Laclede County, Pulaski County, Missouri. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 24, 2007, 10:12 PM CDT (03:12 UTC)
Expired: Apr 25, 2007, 4:00 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Flood severity: None

Counties Camden County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Pulaski County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 143 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 789 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 681 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 123 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 2.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS53 KSGF 250315
FFWSGF
MOC029-105-169-250900-
/X.NEW.KSGF.FF.W.0009.070425T0312Z-070425T0900Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1012 PM CDT TUE APR 24 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEAST CAMDEN COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI...
  NORTHWEST PULASKI COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI...
  LACLEDE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI...

* UNTIL 400 AM CDT WEDNESDAY.

* AT 1010 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED  
  THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED      
  AREA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING ONE AND A HALF TO TWO      
  INCHES OF RAIN IN LESS THAN AN HOUR...WITH AN ADDITIONAL HALF INCH 
  TO INCH OF RAIN EXPECTED THROUGH MIDNIGHT.

* RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO
  OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY EXPERIENCE FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE...
  LEBANON...CONWAY...CROCKER AND RICHLAND.

DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY

LAT...LON 3749 9285 3748 9243 3801 9210 3803 9246

$$

IZZI

The office that day

Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 24, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Hickory, Polk	39 min
Apr 24, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas, Polk	62 min
Apr 24, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Hickory	57 min
Apr 24, 8:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Polk	6 hr
Apr 24, 8:12 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Greene	6 hr
Apr 24, 9:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Ozark	68 min
Apr 24, 9:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Webster, Wright	64 min
Apr 24, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas	61 min
Apr 24, 9:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Douglas	38 min
Apr 24, 10:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Oregon	42 min
Apr 25, 4:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper	12 min
Apr 25, 4:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton	55 min
Apr 25, 5:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Cedar, St. Clair	20 min
Apr 25, 6:34 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Benton, Hickory, St. Clair	6 hr

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.