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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Springfield, MO

May 30, 2013Webster County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 30, 2013, 7:08 PM CDT for Webster County, Missouri. It was in force for 6 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 30, 2013, 7:08 PM CDT (00:08 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 2013, 1:00 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Webster County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:09 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 30, 7:58 PM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	6 Ese Marshfield, MO	HIGHWAY 38 CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 305 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: 753 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -70 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 971 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

966 
WGUS53 KSGF 310008
FFWSGF
MOC225-310600-
/O.NEW.KSGF.FF.W.0021.130531T0008Z-130531T0600Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
708 PM CDT THU MAY 30 2013

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WEBSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI...

* UNTIL 100 AM CDT.

* AT 705 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE      
  WARNED AREA. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PRODUCED BETWEEN ONE TO TWO
  INCHES OF RAIN IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME WHICH WILL LIKELY CAUSE
  FLASH FLOODING.  ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL IS EXPECTED TO MOVE
  INTO THE AREA THIS EVENING WHICH WILL INCREASE THE FLOODING RISK.

* 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...

ROUTE ZZ AT THE MYERS BRANCH NEAR RADER...
GREENWOOD ROAD AT THE POMME DE TERRE HEADWATERS...
ROUTE A JUST SOUTH OF MARSHFIELD...
ROUTE Z AT FINLEY CREEK 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORDLAND...
GREENWOOD ROAD 5 MILES WEST OF MARSHFIELD.

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.

FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR
IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER COVERED BRIDGES...
DIPS...OR LOW WATER CROSSINGS. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...
EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT OR IN A VEHICLE.

&&

LAT...LON 3709 9306 3736 9307 3749 9306 3747 9269
      3707 9269

$$

LINDENBERG

The office that day

Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 7:27 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Cedar, St. Clair, Vernon	18 hr
May 30, 7:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Barry, Christian, McDonald, Stone, Taney	6 hr
May 30, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dent, Maries, Phelps, Pulaski, Texas	39 min
May 30, 8:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Dent, Phelps, Pulaski, Texas	27 min
May 30, 8:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Wright	6 hr
May 30, 8:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Texas	28 min
May 30, 8:51 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	SGF	Jasper	65 hr
May 30, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Douglas, Taney	46 min
May 30, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dent, Phelps, Pulaski, Texas, Wright	43 min
May 30, 9:54 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Barton, Benton, Cedar, Dade, Greene, Hickory and 5 more	15 hr
May 30, 10:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dent, Phelps, Texas	48 min
May 30, 10:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Christian, Dent, Douglas, Howell, Ozark, Taney and 2 more	6 hr
May 30, 10:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Barry	27 min
May 30, 10:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Stone	40 min
May 30, 11:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Ozark	32 min
May 30, 11:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Howell	28 min
May 31, 12:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Shannon	41 min
May 31, 12:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Howell	44 min
May 31, 12:18 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Howell	42 min
May 31, 12:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell, Oregon, Shannon, Texas	57 min
May 31, 12:51 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Howell, Shannon	39 min
May 31, 12:58 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Barry, Christian, Douglas, McDonald, Stone, Taney and 1 more	12 hr
May 31, 1:12 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Douglas, Howell, Oregon, Ozark, Shannon, Texas	6 hr
May 31, 1:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Oregon	54 min
May 31, 2:53 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Wright	10 hr
May 31, 3:53 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Christian, Dent, Douglas, Howell, Ozark, Taney and 2 more	15 hr
May 31, 6:51 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Dent, Douglas, Howell, Oregon, Ozark, Shannon and 1 more	12 hr
May 31, 7:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Benton, Morgan	37 min
May 31, 7:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton, Morgan	48 min
May 31, 8:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Miller, Morgan	60 min
May 31, 8:55 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SGF	Pulaski	4 days
May 31, 8:55 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SGF	Phelps	5 days
May 31, 8:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Miller	46 min
May 31, 12:33 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	SGF	Cedar	4 days
May 31, 12:33 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	SGF	Stone	70 hr
May 31, 1:53 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	SGF	Jasper	60 hr
May 31, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Morgan	41 min
May 31, 5:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Benton, Morgan	37 min
May 31, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton	27 min
May 31, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton, Morgan	49 min
May 31, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton	60 min
May 31, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Vernon	31 min
May 31, 6:17 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Benton, Camden, Hickory, Miller, Morgan	6 hr
May 31, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Miller, Morgan	43 min
May 31, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Morgan	57 min
May 31, 6:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Barton, Vernon	40 min
May 31, 6:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Cedar	46 min
May 31, 6:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Morgan	25 min
May 31, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Vernon	34 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.