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Flash Flood Watch 2, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood watch at May 13, 2010, 2:28 PM CDT for 23 counties in Missouri; Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas. It took effect at May 14, 2010, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 63 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 2010, 2:28 PM CDT (19:28 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 14, 2010, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- May 16, 2010, 3:32 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 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 19:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 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
- 139 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -135 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 570 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 259 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 313 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 10.4
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 May 13, 12:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 13, 12:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| May 13, 3:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Vernon | 59 min |
| May 13, 3:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barton, Vernon | 6 hr |
| May 13, 5:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Benton, Camden, Cedar, Dallas, Hickory, Laclede and 4 more | 6 hr |
| May 13, 5:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Jasper, McDonald, Newton | 66 min |
| May 13, 6:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry | 53 min |
| May 13, 6:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barton, Jasper, Newton | 5 hr |
| May 13, 6:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dade, Lawrence | 47 min |
| May 13, 7:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Stone, Taney | 58 min |
| May 13, 7:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene | 59 min |
| May 13, 7:27 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Christian, Greene, Lawrence, Stone | 48 min |
| May 13, 7:47 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Christian, Stone | 43 min |
| May 13, 7:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Cedar, Dade, Dallas, Greene, Lawrence, Polk and 1 more | 4 hr |
| May 13, 7:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Douglas, Ozark, Taney, Webster, Wright | 46 min |
| May 13, 8:08 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Douglas, Webster, Wright | 37 min |
| May 13, 8:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Texas, Wright | 16 min |
| May 13, 10:35 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | SGF | Cedar | 60 hr |
| May 13, 1:15 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | SGF | Benton, Miller, Morgan | 30 hr |
| May 13, 1:18 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | SGF | Polk | 14 hr |
| May 13, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Stone, Taney | 61 min |
| May 13, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas, Ozark, Taney | 53 min |
| May 13, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas, Texas, Webster, Wright | 36 min |
| May 13, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Howell, Ozark | 26 min |
| May 13, 2:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Bourbon, Crawford | 63 min |
| May 13, 11:48 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | SGF | Cherokee, Crawford | 6 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in Missouri, 2010Flash Flood Watches in Kansas, 2010Every flash flood watch 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.