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Flash Flood Watch 16, NWS Springfield, MO

June 15, 200829 counties in Missouri; Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood watch at Jun 15, 2008, 2:56 AM CDT for 29 counties in Missouri; Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas. It took effect at Jun 15, 2008, 2:32 PM CDT. It was in force for 22 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 15, 2008, 2:56 AM CDT (07:56 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 15, 2008, 2:32 PM CDT
Expired: Jun 16, 2008, 1:00 PM CDT
In force: 22 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Flood severity: None

All 32 counties

Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Dent County, MO, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Maries County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Miller County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Newton County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, St. Clair 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 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 80 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: 843 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -104 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1668 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -5 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -1.5

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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 Jun 15, 2:23 AM CDT, 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 2:23 AM CDT, 33 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
Jun 15, 10:00 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Barton, Jasper, Lawrence	10 hr
Jun 15, 1:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	St. Clair	65 min
Jun 15, 1:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton	67 min
Jun 15, 2:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton, Hickory	58 min
Jun 15, 2:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Benton	5 hr
Jun 15, 2:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Morgan	62 min
Jun 15, 2:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Hickory, St. Clair	59 min
Jun 15, 2:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton	41 min
Jun 15, 3:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cedar, St. Clair	48 min
Jun 15, 3:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden	56 min
Jun 15, 3:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Hickory, St. Clair	42 min
Jun 15, 3:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Camden, Morgan	32 min
Jun 15, 3:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Hickory	59 min
Jun 15, 3:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Miller, Morgan	44 min
Jun 15, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cedar, Dade	33 min
Jun 15, 3:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Dallas, Laclede, Polk	58 min
Jun 15, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Vernon	23 min
Jun 15, 4:08 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Camden, Dallas, Hickory	4 hr
Jun 15, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas, Greene, Laclede, Polk, Webster, Wright	59 min
Jun 15, 4:37 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Camden, Dallas, Laclede, Miller, Polk, Webster and 1 more	6 hr
Jun 15, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Greene, Stone	58 min
Jun 15, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Douglas, Greene, Webster, Wright	78 min
Jun 15, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Laclede, Pulaski, Texas, Wright	48 min
Jun 15, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dent, Phelps	41 min
Jun 15, 5:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Christian, Douglas, Greene, Webster, Wright	4 hr
Jun 15, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian	35 min
Jun 15, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Texas, Wright	33 min
Jun 15, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Stone	61 min
Jun 15, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Newton	57 min
Jun 15, 6:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Ozark, Taney	20 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.