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Flood Watch 3, NWS Springfield, MO

April 2, 201530 counties in Missouri; Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flood watch at Apr 2, 2015, 3:14 AM CDT for 30 counties in Missouri; Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas. It took effect at Apr 2, 2015, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 2, 2015, 3:14 AM CDT (08:14 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 2, 2015, 7:00 PM CDT
Expired: Apr 3, 2015, 6:13 AM CDT
In force: 11 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Flood severity: None

All 32 counties

Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Howell County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Maries County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Miller County, MO, Newton County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Shannon County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:16 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

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 294 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: 304 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -218 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1810 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 236 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this 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 flood watch went out at Apr 2, 12:01 AM CDT, 3 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 2, 12:01 AM CDT, 3 hours 13 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, 7:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Barry	33 min
Apr 2, 8:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry	42 min
Apr 2, 8:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Stone	22 min
Apr 2, 9:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Christian	34 min
Apr 2, 9:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Taney	44 min
Apr 2, 10:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Ozark	44 min
Apr 2, 10:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Howell	41 min
Apr 2, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Laclede	50 min
Apr 2, 3:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Laclede	39 min
Apr 2, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Laclede, Phelps, Pulaski, Texas	63 min
Apr 2, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dent, Phelps, Texas	44 min
Apr 2, 6:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Cherokee, Crawford	39 min

Nearby

Flood Watches in Missouri, 2015 Flood Watches in Kansas, 2015 Every flood watch 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.