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Areal Flood Warning 113, NWS Springfield, MO

December 30, 201510 counties in Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this areal flood warning at Dec 30, 2015, 11:35 AM CST for 10 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 24 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 30, 2015, 11:35 AM CST (17:35 UTC)
Expired
Dec 31, 2015, 11:30 AM CST
In force
24 hr
Issued by
NWS Springfield, MO
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Howell County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Shannon County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:34 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, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 147 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 2015-12-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 2015-12-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -26 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
425 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
102 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 30, 5:06 AM CSTFreezing Fog AdvisorySGFBarry, Christian, Douglas, Greene, Howell, Lawrence and 8 more3 hr
Dec 30, 11:32 AM CSTAreal Flood WarningSGFBenton, Camden, Cedar, Dade, Dallas, Hickory and 7 more24 hr
Dec 30, 11:33 AM CSTAreal Flood WarningSGFBarton, St. Clair, Vernon24 hr

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2015Every areal flood warning in 2015

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.