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Flash Flood Warning 54, NWS Springfield, MO

June 3, 20105 counties in Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 3, 2010, 12:40 AM CDT for 5 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 3, 2010, 12:40 AM CDT (05:40 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2010, 7:00 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Douglas County, MO, Howell County, MO, Texas County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 132 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: 2250 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1595 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning 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 warning went out at Jun 3, 12:40 AM CDT, 0 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 12:40 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 2, 11:32 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 2, 11:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 2, 11:42 PM CDT, 58 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 2, 11:48 PM CDT, 52 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 2, 11:51 PM CDT, 49 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 3, 12:00 AM CDT, 40 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 3, 12:29 AM CDT, 11 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 2, 7:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton, Hickory	20 min
Jun 2, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Vernon	60 min
Jun 2, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Phelps, Pulaski	45 min
Jun 2, 7:36 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Barton	6 hr
Jun 2, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton	46 min
Jun 2, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Phelps, Pulaski	46 min
Jun 2, 8:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Phelps, Pulaski	34 min
Jun 2, 8:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper	86 min
Jun 2, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Texas	41 min
Jun 2, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Phelps, Pulaski	34 min
Jun 2, 9:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene, Webster	63 min
Jun 2, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dade	38 min
Jun 2, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Webster, Wright	26 min
Jun 2, 9:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Texas	48 min
Jun 2, 9:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian	39 min
Jun 2, 9:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Jasper	35 min
Jun 2, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene, Polk	23 min
Jun 2, 10:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Texas	44 min
Jun 2, 10:13 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Jasper	6 hr
Jun 2, 10:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Laclede, Texas, Wright	6 hr
Jun 2, 11:55 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Barton, Vernon	10 hr
Jun 3, 12:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Stone	29 min
Jun 3, 3:02 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Jasper	8 hr
Jun 3, 4:53 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Laclede, Texas, Wright	6 hr
Jun 3, 5:52 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Barry, Christian, McDonald, Newton, Stone, Taney	7 hr
Jun 3, 6:49 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Douglas, Howell, Texas, Webster, Wright	6 hr
Jun 2, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Crawford	63 min
Jun 2, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Crawford	57 min
Jun 2, 8:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Crawford	6 hr
Jun 2, 8:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Cherokee	55 min
Jun 2, 9:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Cherokee	6 hr
Jun 2, 10:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Crawford	57 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2010 Every flash flood warning in 2010

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.