Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Watches in 2008
Flash Flood Watch 3, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood watch at Mar 14, 2008, 3:54 AM CDT for 23 counties in Missouri; Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas. It took effect at Mar 14, 2008, 6:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 14, 2008, 3:54 AM CDT (08:54 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 14, 2008, 6:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 15, 2008, 1:49 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Flood severity
- None
All 25 counties
Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton 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, Polk County, MO, Shannon County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1253 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 419 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 7:37 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | SGF | Barry, Christian, Dent, Douglas, Greene, Howell and 12 more | 2 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.