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Flash Flood Watch 4, NWS Springfield, MO

May 30, 201334 counties in Missouri; Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood watch at May 30, 2013, 4:03 AM CDT for 34 counties in Missouri; Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas. It took effect at May 30, 2013, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 48 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 30, 2013, 4:03 AM CDT (09:03 UTC)
In effect from: May 30, 2013, 7:00 AM CDT
Expired: Jun 1, 2013, 7:00 AM CDT
In force: 48 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Flood severity: None

All 37 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, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Howell 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, Oregon County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Shannon County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 82 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: 350 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -104 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1360 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 117 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 188 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 3.2

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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 May 30, 3:47 AM CDT, 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 30, 3:47 AM CDT, 16 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 29, 11:44 PM CDT, 4 hours 19 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 29, 10:08 PM CDT, 5 hours 55 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 30, 2:45 AM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
245 AM CDT THU MAY 30 2013

MOZ093-094-101>103-300830-
BARRY MO-MCDONALD MO-NEWTON MO-STONE MO-LAWRENCE MO-
245 AM CDT THU MAY 30 2013

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR BARRY...EASTERN MCDONALD...
SOUTHEASTERN NEWTON...SOUTHERN LAWRENCE AND STONE COUNTIES UNTIL 330
AM CDT...

AT 238 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF
POWELL TO 15 MILES SOUTH OF SELIGMAN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. A WEATHER
STATION NEAR ROGERS ARKANSAS HAS RECENTLY REPORTED WINDS AROUND 50
MPH WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVED THROUGH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE AURORA...BRANSON WEST...BUTTERFIELD...CAPE
FAIR...CASSVILLE...CRANE...EAGLE ROCK...ELSEY...EXETER...FAIRVIEW...
GALENA...GOLDEN...INDIAN POINT...JENKINS...KIMBERLING CITY...LAMPE...
MADRY...MCDOWELL...MONETT...PIERCE CITY...PIONEER...PLEASANT RIDGE...
POWELL...PURDY...REEDS SPRING...RIDGLEY...ROCKY COMFORT...SELIGMAN...
SHELL KNOB...SILVER DOLLAR CITY...STELLA...VERONA...WASHBURN...
WAYNE...WHEATON AND WHEELERVILLE.

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY INCLUDE BIG
SUGAR CREEK STATE PARK...ROARING RIVER STATE PARK AND TABLE ROCK
LAKE.

LAT...LON 3671 9431 3701 9402 3698 9363 3680 9336
      3660 9331 3650 9332 3649 9416
TIME...MOT...LOC 0743Z 207DEG 56KT 3676 9421 3638 9397

GRIFFIN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 2:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Barry, Stone	45 min
May 30, 9:15 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SGF	Vernon	6 days
May 30, 9:15 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SGF	Vernon	10 days
May 30, 1:05 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Vernon	6 hr
May 30, 2:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper	43 min
May 30, 2:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Dallas	24 min
May 30, 2:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Benton, Camden, Cedar, Dade, Dallas, Hickory and 4 more	64 min
May 30, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton, Camden, Morgan	60 min
May 30, 3:18 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	SGF	Bates, Vernon	8 days
May 30, 3:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Howell	37 min
May 30, 4:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Barton, Benton, Cedar, Dade, Hickory, Jasper and 2 more	6 hr
May 30, 4:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Dent, Oregon, Shannon	34 min
May 30, 4:38 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	SGF	Jasper	45 hr
May 30, 4:49 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Dade, Jasper, Lawrence, Newton	6 hr
May 30, 4:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Jasper, Newton	47 min
May 30, 6:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Greene	6 hr
May 30, 6:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Greene	44 min
May 29, 9:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford	46 min
May 29, 10:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford	37 min
May 30, 2:23 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford	6 hr
May 30, 7:50 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford	6 hr
May 30, 9:15 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SGF	Bourbon	54 hr
May 30, 1:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Crawford	47 min
May 30, 2:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cherokee, Crawford	41 min
May 30, 3:18 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	SGF	Bourbon	52 hr
May 30, 4:38 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	SGF	Cherokee	58 hr

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.