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Flash Flood Watch 3, NWS Springfield, MO

October 1, 201417 counties in Missouri; Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood watch at Oct 1, 2014, 1:12 PM CDT for 17 counties in Missouri; Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas. It took effect at Oct 1, 2014, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 24 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 1, 2014, 1:12 PM CDT (18:12 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 1, 2014, 7:00 PM CDT
Expired
Oct 2, 2014, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
24 hr
Issued by
NWS Springfield, MO
Flood severity
None

Counties Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Barton County, MO, Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Maries County, MO, Miller County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:15 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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 105 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2014-10-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 192 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2014-10-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 192 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
192 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-134 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1166 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
192 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
222 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.5

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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 Oct 1, 1:07 PM CDT, 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 1, 1:07 PM CDT, 5 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 1, 4:34 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSGFMorgan26 min
Oct 1, 5:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFJasper26 min
Oct 1, 6:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFBenton52 min
Oct 1, 6:26 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFBenton, Morgan34 min
Oct 1, 6:34 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFBenton26 min
Oct 1, 4:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFCherokee63 min
Oct 1, 5:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFCherokee49 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Watches in Missouri, 2014Flash Flood Watches in Kansas, 2014Every flash flood watch in 2014

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.