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Flash Flood Watch 7, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood watch at Jun 30, 2015, 3:28 PM CDT for 20 counties in Missouri. It took effect at Jul 1, 2015, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 27 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 30, 2015, 3:28 PM CDT (20:28 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 1, 2015, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2015, 4:03 AM CDT
- In force
- 27 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Howell County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Maries County, MO, Miller County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Shannon County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Texas County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 144 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 272 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1521 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 30, 3:24 PM CDT, 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 3:24 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
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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.