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Flash Flood Warning 110, NWS Springfield, MO

June 19, 2008Christian County, Taney County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 19, 2008, 4:16 PM CDT for Christian County, Taney County, Missouri. It was in force for 6 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 19, 2008, 4:16 PM CDT (21:16 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2008, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Christian County, MO, Taney County, MO

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 19, 5:00 PM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	Sparta, MO	FIVE WATER RESCUES PERFORMED DUE TO FLOODED ROADWAYS IN EASTERN CHRISTIAN COUNTY. FLOODED ROADS ALSO REPORTED IN SPARTA.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

Did it verify

Verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow matched one storm report to this flash flood warning; the first came 44 minutes after it went out.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 58 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: 756 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 879 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 135 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KSGF 192117
FFWSGF
MOC043-213-200300-
/O.NEW.KSGF.FF.W.0110.080619T2116Z-080620T0300Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
416 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CHRISTIAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI...
  TANEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI...

* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT.

* AT 410 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE
  WARNED AREA. RADAR ESTIMATES THAT RAINFALL RATES OF TWO TO THREE 
  INCHES PER HOUR ARE OCCURRING WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. 

* RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO
  OCCUR. CREEKS...STREAMS AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS WILL BE ESPECIALLY 
  SUSCEPTIBLE TO THE DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODING.

MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO
CROSS WATER COVERED BRIDGES OR LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

LAT...LON 3681 9332 3682 9335 3698 9334 3699 9336
      3710 9337 3708 9293 3697 9291 3682 9292
      3681 9287 3649 9280 3649 9332

$$

SCHAUMANN

2 follow-up statements

000 
WGUS73 KSGF 200103
FFSSGF

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
802 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2008

MOC043-213-200300-
/O.CON.KSGF.FF.W.0110.000000T0000Z-080620T0300Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
CHRISTIAN MO-TANEY MO-
802 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2008

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR
CHRISTIAN AND TANEY COUNTIES...

RUNOFF FROM RAINFALL DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON CONTINUES ACROSS THE 
WARNED AREA. UP TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN FELL IN A SHORT PERIOD OF 
TIME...RESULTING IN RAPID RISES IN AREA CREEKS AND STREAMS.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY
AUTOMOBILE.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. DO
NOT ENTER THE WATER. TURN AROUND AND MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO
ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN
WATER BEGINS RISING.

LAT...LON 3681 9332 3682 9335 3698 9334 3699 9336
      3710 9337 3708 9293 3697 9291 3682 9292
      3681 9287 3649 9280 3649 9332
TIME...MOT...LOC 0102Z 180DEG 0KT 3685 9314

$$

GAGAN

000 
WGUS73 KSGF 200253
FFSSGF

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
953 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2008

MOC043-213-200303-
/O.EXP.KSGF.FF.W.0110.000000T0000Z-080620T0300Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
CHRISTIAN MO-TANEY MO-
953 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2008

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 1000 PM CDT FOR CHRISTIAN
AND TANEY COUNTIES...

EXCESS RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAIN EARLIER TODAY...AS WELL AS ADDITIONAL 
RAINFALL EXPECTED TONIGHT WILL RESULT IN AN AREAL FLOOD WARNING 
BEING ISSUED AT 1000 PM. IF FLOODING HAS BEEN OBSERVED...PLEASE 
REPORT IT TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.

LAT...LON 3681 9332 3682 9335 3698 9334 3699 9336
      3710 9337 3708 9293 3697 9291 3682 9292
      3681 9287 3649 9280 3649 9332
TIME...MOT...LOC 0253Z 180DEG 0KT 3685 9314

$$

GAGAN

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 19, 3:31 PM CDT, 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 3:31 PM CDT, 45 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
331 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2008

.DISCUSSION...

THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ACROSS THE CENTRAL PORTION OF THE CWA
THIS AFTERNOON...ALONG A BOUNDARY ROUGHLY LOCATED ALONG THE
HIGHWAY 65 CORRIDOR. STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS HAVE DEVELOP AS ML
CAPE OF 1200 TO 2000 J/KG AND 0-6KM BULK SHEAR AROUND 30KT IS
LOCATED ACROSS THE AREA. WITH THE INSTABILITY...SHEAR AND STEEP
LAPSE RATES LARGE HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. THE
TORNADO THREAT LOOKS TO BE LIMITED DUE TO THE LACK OF LOW LEVEL
SHEAR...HOWEVER WITH THE DEEP LAYER SHEAR SUPERCELLS ARE POSSIBLE...SO
CANNOT RULE OUT AN ISOLATED TORNADO.

IN ADDITION TO THIS ACTIVITY...AN UPPER LEVEL SHORTWAVE IS MOVE
ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS. THIS SHORTWAVE IS THE FOCUS FOR
THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT FROM NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA INTO IOWA.
THIS SHORTWAVE WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH TOWARDS THE AREA THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING. AS A RESULT THE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS
KANSAS AND NEBRASKA WILL PUSH INTO THE AREA THIS EVENING. WIND
SHEAR AND INSTABILITY WILL REMAIN SIGNIFICANT ENOUGH TO SUPPORT
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING. THE MAIN HAZARDS WITH THESE
STORM WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. ALSO...THESE STORMS
WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND LOCALIZED
FLASH FLOODING. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL LINGER ACROSS THE AREA
THROUGH FRIDAY AS THE STORM SYSTEM SLOWLY PUSHES THROUGH THE AREA.

SATURDAY THE UPPER LEVEL RIDGE IS EXPECTED TO PUSH EAST INTO THE
AREA...BRING WARMER TEMPERATURES AND DRY WEATHER THROUGH THE
WEEKEND INTO THE START OF THE WORK WEEK. TUESDAY AN UPPER LEVEL
SHORTWAVE IS EXPECTED TO FLATTEN THE RIDGE AND PRODUCE RAIN ACROSS
THE AREA THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

WISE

&&

.AVIATION...

FOR THE 18Z TAF PACKAGE...THE AREA HAS DESTABILIZED EARLY THIS
AFTERNOON WITH LITTLE OR NO CAP IN PLACE. THIS HAS CAUSED ISOLATED
THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP INVOF SGF...AND A FEW ARE BEGINNING TO
DEVELOP IN THE JLN AREA AS WELL. THIS WILL LIKELY PERSIST THROUGH
THE AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING HOURS BEFORE EVENTUALLY DYING
OFF. A CONVECTIVE COMPLEX WILL LIKELY INITIATE OVER NEBRASKA AND
KANSAS...AND MOVE SOUTH SOUTHEAST OVERNIGHT. THIS WILL LIKELY
IMPACT BOTH SGF AND JLN WITH THUNDERSTORMS...AS WELL AS LOWERED
CEILINGS WITH THE STORMS...AND POTENTIALLY IN THE WAKE OF THE
ACTIVITY AS WELL. AT THIS TIME...IT LOOKS TO CLEAR OUT BY AT
LEAST 15Z.

BARJENBRUCH

&&

.SGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
MO...NONE.
KS...NONE.
&&

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 19, 2:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
230 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2008

KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-201930-
BOURBON-CRAWFORD-CHEROKEE-BENTON-MORGAN-MILLER-MARIES-VERNON-
ST. CLAIR-HICKORY-CAMDEN-PULASKI-PHELPS-BARTON-CEDAR-POLK-DALLAS-
LACLEDE-TEXAS-DENT-JASPER-DADE-GREENE-WEBSTER-WRIGHT-NEWTON-
LAWRENCE-CHRISTIAN-DOUGLAS-HOWELL-SHANNON-MCDONALD-BARRY-STONE-
TANEY-OZARK-OREGON-
230 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2008

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE MISSOURI
OZARKS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

  WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED:

  THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL...
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH...AND LOCALLY HEAVY
  RAINFALL.

  AREAS AFFECTED AND TIMING:

  SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ALONG AND JUST EAST OF
  HIGHWAY 65 THIS AFTERNOON. THE STRONGER STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE
  OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...AND SHOULD REMAIN
  ALONG THE HIGHWAY 65 CORRIDOR.

  THIS EVENING...A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL
  MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO THE OUTLOOK AREA...GENERALLY WEST OF AN OSAGE
  BEACH TO WEST PLAINS LINE. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE
  POSSIBLE WITH THESE OF STORMS ALSO.

  DISCUSSION:

  AN UNSTABLE AIRMASS HAS DEVELOPED ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA THIS
  AFTERNOON. WITHIN THIS INSTABILITY...THUNDERSTORMS HAVE
  DEVELOPED ALONG A BOUNDARY ROUGHLY ALONG HIGHWAY 65. THE
  STRONGER STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND
  DAMAGING WINDS.

  IN ADDITION...AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE IS MOVING ACROSS THE
  CENTRAL PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON...WITH THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING
  FROM NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA INTO SOUTHWESTERN IOWA. THESE STORMS
  WILL MOVE INTO THE OUTLOOK AREA THIS EVENING. DAMAGING WINDS AND
  LARGE HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. IN ADDITION TO
  THE SEVERE THREAT...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLASH FLOODING
  WILL BE POSSIBLE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

  THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE INTO FRIDAY AS A FRONT MOVES
  THROUGH THE AREA. SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

  THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE DURING THE MIDDLE HALF OF NEXT
  WEEK.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

 SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED ALONG AND WEST OF AN OSAGE BEACH
 TO WEST PLAINS LINE THROUGH THIS EVENING.

&&

THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE IN GRAPHICAL FORMAT...ALONG WITH
OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION...AT
HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/SGF(ALL LOWERCASE)

WISE

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 19, 4:05 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
405 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2008

..TIME..    ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0358 PM     TSTM WND GST     4 NE SPRINGFIELD        37.24N  93.23W
06/19/2008  M81 MPH          GREENE             MO   BROADCAST MEDIA

&&

KARDELL

Local storm report, Jun 19, 4:06 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
406 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2008

..TIME..    ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0345 PM     TSTM WND GST     4 NE SPRINGFIELD        37.24N  93.23W
06/19/2008  M81 MPH          GREENE             MO   BROADCAST MEDIA

&&

CORRECTED EVENT TIME

KARDELL

Local storm report, Jun 19, 4:12 PM CDT, 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
412 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0332 PM     TSTM WND DMG     3 NE SPRINGFIELD        37.23N 93.25W
06/19/2008                   GREENE             MO   AMATEUR RADIO

            ROOF DAMAGE AND DOORS BLOWN IN AT INDUSTRIAL BUILDING AT
            DIVISION AND BELCREST.

&&

GAEDE

Local storm report, Jun 19, 4:13 PM CDT, 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
413 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0409 PM     FLASH FLOOD      5 E SPRINGFIELD         37.20N 93.20W
06/19/2008                   GREENE             MO   BROADCAST MEDIA

            WATER RESCUE UNDERWAY AT BATTLEFIELD ROAD AND LUSTER.

&&

GAGAN

Local storm report, Jun 19, 4:14 PM CDT, 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
414 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0325 PM     TSTM WND DMG     5 ENE SPRINGFIELD       37.22N 93.20W
06/19/2008                   GREENE             MO   BROADCAST MEDIA

            TREE ON A CAR NEAR HIGHWAY 65 AND CHESTNUT.

&&

GAGAN

Local storm report, Jun 19, 4:16 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
416 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0413 PM     TSTM WND GST     3 NNW OZARK             37.06N 93.23W
06/19/2008  E70 MPH          CHRISTIAN          MO   AMATEUR RADIO

            INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 65 AT HIGHWAY J. ALSO DIME HAIL
            COVERING GROUND.

&&

GAEDE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 19, 1:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas, Hickory	40 min
Jun 19, 1:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Polk	53 min
Jun 19, 2:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas, Greene, Polk, Webster	44 min
Jun 19, 3:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Greene, Webster	39 min
Jun 19, 3:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Stone, Taney	53 min
Jun 19, 3:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Dallas, Greene, Hickory, Polk, Webster	6 hr
Jun 19, 3:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Christian, Greene, Webster	66 min
Jun 19, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Taney	63 min
Jun 19, 4:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Christian	21 min
Jun 19, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Morgan	63 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2008 Every flash flood warning in 2008

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.