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Flash Flood Watch 19, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood watch at Jul 12, 2008, 2:37 PM CDT for 11 counties in Missouri; Cherokee County, Kansas. It took effect at Jul 12, 2008, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 12, 2008, 2:37 PM CDT (19:37 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 12, 2008, 7:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jul 12, 2008, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Cherokee County, KS, Barry County, MO, Christian County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Howell County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 26 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 916 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -132 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1273 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 273 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 391 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
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 Jul 12, 12:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 12, 12:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
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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.