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Flash Flood Watch 1, NWS Springfield, MO

April 16, 201323 counties in Missouri; Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood watch at Apr 16, 2013, 2:55 PM CDT for 23 counties in Missouri; Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas. It took effect at Apr 17, 2013, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 24 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 16, 2013, 2:55 PM CDT (19:55 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 17, 2013, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired: Apr 18, 2013, 12:21 PM CDT
In force: 24 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Flood severity: None

All 26 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, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Maries County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Miller County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Newton County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:58 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 83 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 425 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 434 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 499 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 7.7

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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 Apr 16, 2:28 PM CDT, 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 16, 2:28 PM CDT, 27 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 16, 1:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 16, 8:59 AM CDT, 5 hours 56 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
Apr 15, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton, Hickory	39 min
Apr 15, 10:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Morgan	53 min
Apr 15, 11:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Barton	29 min
Apr 16, 12:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Barton	44 min
Apr 16, 12:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Cedar	24 min
Apr 16, 12:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Hickory	33 min
Apr 16, 1:37 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Benton, Camden, Hickory, Miller, Morgan	6 hr
Apr 16, 1:39 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Camden	36 min
Apr 16, 7:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Dallas	32 min
Apr 16, 7:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Dallas, Laclede	43 min
Apr 15, 11:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Crawford	19 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.