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Flood Watch 3, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flood watch at Sep 12, 2008, 11:02 AM CDT for 34 counties in Missouri; Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas. It took effect at Sep 13, 2008, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 25 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 12, 2008, 11:02 AM CDT (16:02 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 13, 2008, 7:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Sep 14, 2008, 7:54 AM CDT
- In force
- 25 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 radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 12:00Z, 4.0 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
- 986 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 781 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.6
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this 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 flood watch went out at Sep 12, 6:32 AM CDT, 4 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 12, 6:32 AM CDT, 4 hours 30 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 7:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Howell, Texas | 36 min |
| Sep 11, 7:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Ozark | 33 min |
| Sep 11, 7:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Douglas | 25 min |
| Sep 11, 7:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Shannon, Texas | 34 min |
| Sep 11, 8:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Shannon, Texas | 32 min |
| Sep 11, 9:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Barry | 52 min |
| Sep 12, 4:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Benton, Morgan | 6 hr |
Nearby
Flood Watches in Missouri, 2008Flood Watches in Kansas, 2008Every 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.