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Flash Flood Watch 1, NWS Springfield, MO

June 5, 201425 counties in Missouri; Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood watch at Jun 5, 2014, 3:30 PM CDT for 25 counties in Missouri; Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas. It took effect at Jun 5, 2014, 4:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 5, 2014, 3:30 PM CDT (20:30 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 5, 2014, 4:00 PM CDT
Expired: Jun 9, 2014, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 4 days
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Flood severity: None

All 28 counties

Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Howell County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Polk County, MO, Shannon 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), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 57 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: 583 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -346 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1170 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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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 Jun 5, 1:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 1:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 5, 1:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 5, 12:31 PM CDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 5, 12:56 PM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 5, 1:11 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 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
Jun 4, 7:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Shannon	45 min
Jun 4, 8:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Dade	31 min
Jun 4, 9:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dade, Greene, Polk	38 min
Jun 4, 9:15 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Dent, Shannon, Texas	6 hr
Jun 4, 9:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Shannon	41 min
Jun 4, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Shannon	50 min
Jun 4, 9:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Greene	45 min
Jun 4, 9:52 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Shannon, Texas	5 hr
Jun 4, 10:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Lawrence	42 min
Jun 4, 10:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Oregon	48 min
Jun 4, 10:46 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Barton, Dade, Jasper, Lawrence	6 hr
Jun 4, 10:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Lawrence	49 min
Jun 4, 11:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Christian	36 min
Jun 4, 11:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Shannon	50 min
Jun 4, 11:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Lawrence	47 min
Jun 5, 12:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Lawrence, Stone	23 min
Jun 5, 1:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Jasper	27 min
Jun 5, 1:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Stone	23 min
Jun 5, 1:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper, Lawrence	44 min
Jun 5, 1:50 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Jasper, Lawrence	6 hr
Jun 5, 2:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Lawrence, Newton	44 min
Jun 5, 2:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Taney	28 min
Jun 5, 2:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Lawrence, Stone	44 min
Jun 5, 2:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Stone, Taney	40 min
Jun 5, 3:24 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Oregon	51 min
Jun 5, 3:45 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Jasper, Lawrence	4 hr
Jun 5, 3:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Oregon	26 min
Jun 5, 3:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Jasper	36 min
Jun 5, 7:51 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Jasper, Lawrence	6 hr
Jun 5, 7:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Vernon	49 min
Jun 5, 8:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Jasper, Newton	63 min
Jun 5, 8:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	McDonald, Newton	64 min
Jun 5, 8:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Dade	60 min
Jun 5, 9:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Lawrence	60 min
Jun 5, 9:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry	50 min
Jun 5, 9:27 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SGF	Jasper	62 hr
Jun 5, 9:27 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SGF	Jasper	65 hr
Jun 5, 9:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene	62 min
Jun 5, 9:29 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Barton, Vernon	6 hr
Jun 5, 9:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Stone, Taney	60 min
Jun 5, 10:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas, Ozark, Webster, Wright	66 min
Jun 5, 10:14 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Greene	3 hr
Jun 5, 10:22 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Dade, Jasper, Lawrence	4 hr
Jun 5, 10:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Taney	23 min
Jun 5, 10:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell	57 min
Jun 5, 11:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas, Ozark	17 min
Jun 5, 11:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Oregon	59 min
Jun 5, 11:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell	17 min
Jun 5, 12:51 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Barton, Dade, Jasper, Lawrence, Vernon	3 hr
Jun 5, 3:55 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Barton, Dade, Jasper, Lawrence, Vernon	18 hr
Jun 5, 7:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford	25 min
Jun 5, 8:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cherokee, Crawford	63 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.