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Areal Flood Warning 13, NWS Springfield, MO

April 3, 2015Barry County, Lawrence County, Stone County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this areal flood warning at Apr 3, 2015, 1:58 PM CDT for Barry County, Lawrence County, Stone County, Missouri. It was in force for 3 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: Apr 3, 2015, 1:58 PM CDT (18:58 UTC)
Expired: Apr 3, 2015, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Barry County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Stone County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 10 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: 534 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 193 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 422 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.8

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this areal flood warning 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 areal flood warning went out at Apr 3, 12:32 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 12:32 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 3, 11:54 AM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 3, 12:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 3, 1:10 PM CDT, 48 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 3, 1:22 PM CDT, 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 3, 1:29 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 3, 1:35 PM CDT, 23 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 3, 1:51 PM CDT, 7 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 2, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton	55 min
Apr 2, 7:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Jasper	51 min
Apr 2, 8:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Barton, Jasper	23 min
Apr 2, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cedar, Dade, Polk	45 min
Apr 2, 8:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	SGF	Barton, Dade, Jasper, Lawrence	37 min
Apr 2, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper, Newton	64 min
Apr 2, 8:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Jasper, Newton	48 min
Apr 2, 8:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Dade, Lawrence	23 min
Apr 2, 9:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper, Newton	28 min
Apr 2, 9:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper, Lawrence, Newton	44 min
Apr 2, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	McDonald	42 min
Apr 2, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dade, Greene, Lawrence	32 min
Apr 2, 10:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	McDonald	46 min
Apr 2, 11:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Barry, Stone	40 min
Apr 2, 11:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Barry	34 min
Apr 3, 12:02 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Stone, Taney	43 min
Apr 3, 12:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas	37 min
Apr 3, 12:14 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Douglas	31 min
Apr 3, 12:39 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Douglas, Howell	36 min
Apr 3, 12:43 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Ozark, Taney	30 min
Apr 3, 12:59 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Howell, Oregon, Shannon	46 min
Apr 3, 1:05 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Ozark	40 min
Apr 3, 1:25 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Oregon, Shannon	35 min
Apr 3, 1:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell	47 min
Apr 3, 1:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Oregon	34 min
Apr 3, 2:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Jasper, Newton	62 min
Apr 3, 2:45 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Newton	45 min
Apr 3, 3:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Barton, Dade, Jasper, Lawrence, Newton	42 min
Apr 3, 3:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Christian, Lawrence, Stone, Taney	47 min
Apr 3, 4:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Christian, Douglas, Ozark, Stone, Taney	47 min
Apr 3, 4:52 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Barry, Lawrence, Stone	3 hr
Apr 3, 5:01 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Ozark, Taney	6 hr
Apr 3, 5:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas, Ozark, Taney	43 min
Apr 3, 5:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Shannon	24 min
Apr 3, 5:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell, Ozark	30 min
Apr 3, 7:27 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SGF	Jasper	39 hr
Apr 3, 7:44 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Barry, Lawrence, Stone	6 hr
Apr 3, 8:23 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Barry, Jasper, Lawrence, Newton, Stone	9 hr
Apr 3, 8:34 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Benton, Camden, Dallas, Hickory, Laclede, Miller and 2 more	6 hr
Apr 3, 10:48 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Christian, Dallas, Douglas, Howell, Laclede, Ozark and 4 more	6 hr
Apr 3, 11:13 AM CDT	Frost Advisory	SGF	Barry, Barton, Benton, Camden, Cedar, Christian and 28 more	22 hr
Apr 3, 4:55 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Douglas, Howell, Laclede, Ozark, Texas, Wright	18 hr
Apr 3, 4:59 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Barry, Jasper, Lawrence, Newton, Stone	18 hr
Apr 2, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cherokee, Crawford	59 min
Apr 2, 7:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Cherokee, Crawford	49 min
Apr 2, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cherokee	14 min
Apr 2, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cherokee	26 min
Apr 3, 2:05 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Cherokee	40 min
Apr 3, 2:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cherokee, Crawford	51 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.