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Flash Flood Watch 23, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood watch at Sep 2, 2008, 1:06 PM CDT for 34 counties in Missouri; Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas. It took effect at Sep 3, 2008, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 34 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 2, 2008, 1:06 PM CDT (18:06 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 3, 2008, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Sep 4, 2008, 10:46 AM CDT
- In force
- 34 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Flood severity
- None
All 37 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, Douglas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Howell 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, Oregon County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Shannon 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 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 477 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 830 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Sep 2, 12:44 PM CDT, 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 2, 12:44 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 2, 11:48 AM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1148 AM CDT TUE SEP 2 2008 KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-031700- 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- 1148 AM CDT TUE SEP 2 2008 ...HEAVY RAIN...EXCESSIVE RAINFALL AND FLOODING POSSIBLE... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE MISSOURI OZARKS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON AND ESPECIALLY TONIGHT AS MOISTURE FROM THE WEAKENING TROPICAL SYSTEM GUSTAV INTERACTS WITH A COLD FRONT MOVING INTO SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. HEAVY RAIN IS LIKELY WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY AS REMNANT MOISTURE FROM GUSTAV CONTINUES TO TRACK NORTHWARD...LIFTING UP AND OVER A STATIONARY FRONTAL BOUNDARY OVER THE OZARKS. FLASH FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE IN SMALL BASINS...LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS...AND SOME URBAN AREAS. AREAL FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE LATE WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY DUE TO EXCESSIVE RAINFALL ACROSS A LARGE AREA OF SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI. TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF GENERALLY 3 TO 6 INCHES WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS WILL BE POSSIBLE ALONG AND SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM NEAR JOPLIN TO WARSAW MISSOURI. DEPENDENT UPON TOTAL RAINFALL RECEIVED AND THE AMOUNT THAT CURRENT SOIL CONDITIONS WILL SOAK IN...RIVER FLOODING WILL POTENTIALLY DEVELOP ACROSS THE WHITE...GASCONADE...BIG PINEY AND BLACK RIVER BASINS. WHILE THE OVERALL THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE LOW DUE TO EXPECTED POOR INSTABILITY...WIND PROFILES WITH HEIGHT MAY BE SUPPORTIVE OF ISOLATED BRIEF WEAK TORNADOES IN AREAS ALONG AND SOUTHEAST OF THE INTERSTATE 44 CORRIDOR WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT. SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE FORECASTS AND STATEMENTS CONCERNING THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAINFALL...FLOODING...AND ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER. && 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) ANGLE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 4:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Barry, Stone | 28 min |
| Sep 2, 5:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Barry | 31 min |
| Sep 2, 5:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Taney | 45 min |
| Sep 2, 6:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Barry | 39 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in Missouri, 2008Flash Flood Watches in Kansas, 2008Every flash flood watch 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.