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Flash Flood Watch 4, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood watch at Jun 8, 2010, 12:39 PM CDT for 18 counties in Missouri; Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas. It took effect at Jun 8, 2010, 4:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 17 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 2010, 12:39 PM CDT (17:39 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 8, 2010, 4:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2010, 9:29 AM CDT
- In force
- 17 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Flood severity
- None
All 21 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, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Maries County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Miller County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Newton County, MO, Polk County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:42 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 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 1646 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 713 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.9
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 Jun 8, 12:30 PM CDT, 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 12:30 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
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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.