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Flash Flood Watch 11, NWS Springfield, MO

May 31, 200827 counties in Missouri; Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood watch at May 31, 2008, 2:35 PM CDT for 27 counties in Missouri; Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas. It took effect at May 31, 2008, 4:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 39 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 31, 2008, 2:35 PM CDT (19:35 UTC)
In effect from: May 31, 2008, 4:00 PM CDT
Expired: Jun 2, 2008, 6:33 AM CDT
In force: 39 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Flood severity: None

All 30 counties

Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Howell County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Shannon County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 66 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: 1870 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -62 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 809 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 130 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 watch went out at May 31, 2:26 PM CDT, 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 31, 2:26 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 31, 12:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1233 PM CDT SAT MAY 31 2008

KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-011745-
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-
1233 PM CDT SAT MAY 31 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:

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS...
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...
LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...

 AREAS AFFECTED AND TIMING:

STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MAINLY CONFINED TO AREAS
OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST MISSOURI SOUTH AND EAST OF AN
OSCEOLA TO SALEM LINE THIS AFTERNOON.

  DISCUSSION:

THUNDERSTORMS LEFT OVER FROM A THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX THAT MOVED
OUT OF KANSAS THIS MORNING AND INTO MISSOURI WILL CONTINUE
OVER MUCH OF SOUTHERN MISSOURI THROUGH THE AFTERNOON.  THIS
WILL HELP TO LIMIT THE INSTABILITY OVER A LARGE PORTION OF THE
AREA. HOWEVER...CLEARING ON THE BACK SIDE OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS
OVER EXTREME WESTERN MISSOURI WILL ALLOW FOR INSTABILITY TO
INCREASE LATER THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW OF THE STORMS OVER SOUTHWEST
MISSOURI AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS COULD PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WIND GUSTS.

ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER KANSAS
TONIGHT AND PUSH INTO SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF
MISSOURI LATE TONIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING
WIND AND HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE ONGOING SUNDAY MORNING ACROSS SOUTHERN
MISSOURI. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS EXPECTED ACROSS
CENTRAL KANSAS...WHICH MAY SPREAD EASTWARD INTO EXTREME SOUTHEAST
KANSAS AND SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI ON SUNDAY. SEVERE STORMS WITH
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE.

CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL PERSIST THROUGH MONDAY AS A
FRONTAL BOUNDARY LINGERS NEAR THE AREA AND SEVERAL UPPER LEVEL
DISTURBANCES MOVE ACROSS THE REGION.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL ONCE AGAIN BE POSSIBLE LATE IN THE WORK WEEK
AS ANOTHER SYSTEM MOVES INTO THE CENTRAL UNITED STATES.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON OVER SOUTHWEST
SECTIONS OF MISSOURI AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS.

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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)

LINDENBERG

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 31, 1:32 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
132 PM CDT SAT MAY 31 2008

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

0132 PM     HAIL             FRONTENAC               37.46N  94.69W
05/31/2008  E0.25 INCH       CRAWFORD           KS   EMERGENCY MNGR

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Local storm report, May 31, 1:40 PM CDT, 55 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
140 PM CDT SAT MAY 31 2008

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

1257 PM     HAIL             CARL JUNCTION           37.18N  94.57W
05/31/2008  E0.75 INCH       JASPER             MO   FIRE DEPT/RESCUE

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Special weather statement, May 31, 1:49 PM CDT, 46 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 31, 1:58 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 31, 2:22 PM CDT, 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 31, 2:27 PM CDT, 8 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton, Morgan	57 min
May 30, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton, Camden, Miller, Morgan	56 min
May 30, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton, Camden, Miller, Morgan	62 min
May 30, 10:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Cedar, Dade	65 min
May 30, 10:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Maries, Phelps, Pulaski	66 min
May 30, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dade, Dallas, Greene, Polk	65 min
May 30, 10:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Miller	62 min
May 30, 10:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dade, Greene, Lawrence	47 min
May 31, 9:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	McDonald, Newton	64 min
May 31, 12:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper	46 min
May 31, 1:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper, Lawrence, Newton	46 min
May 31, 1:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton	60 min
May 31, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cedar, St. Clair, Vernon	39 min
May 31, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cedar, St. Clair, Vernon	30 min
May 30, 10:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cherokee	63 min

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.