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Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 22, 2011, 5:53 PM CDT for Barton County, Jasper County, Newton County, 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 2011, 5:53 PM CDT (22:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2011, 11:48 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Barton County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Newton County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:53 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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 56 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
- 2645 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -122 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 678 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 424 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 422 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 16.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
757 WGUS53 KSGF 222253 FFWSGF MOC011-097-145-230500- /O.NEW.KSGF.FF.W.0041.110522T2253Z-110523T0500Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 553 PM CDT SUN MAY 22 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... NEWTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... SOUTHERN BARTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... * UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT MONDAY. * AT 548 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. RAINFALL UP TO TWO INCHES AN HOUR WILL BE POSSIBLE. * RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. CREEKS...STREAMS AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS WILL BE ESPECIALLY SUSCEPTIBLE TO THE DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODING. THIS WARNING INCLUDES BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING LOW WATER CROSSINGS... NORTH MAIN AND MURPHY BOULEVARD IN JOPLIN... BUSINESS HIGHWAY 60 JUST NORTH OF NEOSHO... HIGHWAY 37 AT THE SPRING RIVER SOUTHWEST OF AVILLA. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. && LAT...LON 3678 9462 3744 9461 3742 9408 3678 9407 $$ HATCH
1 follow-up statement
793 WGUS73 KSGF 230448 FFSSGF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1148 PM CDT SUN MAY 22 2011 MOC011-097-145-230458- /O.CAN.KSGF.FF.W.0041.000000T0000Z-110523T0500Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BARTON MO-JASPER MO-NEWTON MO- 1148 PM CDT SUN MAY 22 2011 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR JASPER...NEWTON AND SOUTHERN BARTON COUNTIES... EXCESS RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED OVER THE WARNED AREA. STREAMS AND CREEKS IN THE WARNED AREA HAVE RECEDED OR WERE BEGINNING TO RECEDE...ENDING THE FLOOD THREAT. IF FLOODING HAS BEEN OBSERVED... PLEASE REPORT IT TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. LAT...LON 3678 9462 3744 9461 3742 9408 3678 9407 $$ GRIFFIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 4:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SGF | Hickory | 25 min |
| May 22, 5:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Jasper | 51 min |
| May 22, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden, Miller, Morgan | 64 min |
| May 22, 5:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Jasper, Newton | 43 min |
| May 22, 5:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Jasper, Lawrence, Newton | 42 min |
| May 22, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | McDonald, Newton | 65 min |
| May 22, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton, Morgan | 62 min |
| May 22, 6:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Barry, Jasper, Lawrence, Newton | 38 min |
| May 22, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Jasper | 24 min |
| May 22, 6:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Barry, Christian, Lawrence, Stone | 47 min |
Nearby
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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.