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Areal Flood Warning 28, NWS Springfield, MO

October 6, 2016Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas

NWS Springfield, MO issued this areal flood warning at Oct 6, 2016, 2:20 PM CDT for Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas. It was in force for 21 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: Oct 6, 2016, 2:20 PM CDT (19:20 UTC)
Expired: Oct 7, 2016, 11:15 AM CDT
In force: 21 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:21 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

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 197 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: 1009 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -100 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 748 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 158 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 5.8

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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 Oct 6, 12:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 6, 12:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 6, 8:40 AM CDT, 5 hours 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
840 AM CDT THU OCT 06 2016

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0835 AM     FLASH FLOOD      2 W COLUMBUS            37.17N 94.88W
10/06/2016                   CHEROKEE           KS   EMERGENCY MNGR

            NUMEROUS LOW WATER CROSSINGS FLOODED WEST OF COLUMBUS

&&

RABERDING

Local storm report, Oct 6, 12:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1245 PM CDT THU OCT 06 2016

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1243 PM     FLASH FLOOD      3 NW COLUMBUS           37.20N 94.88W
10/06/2016                   CHEROKEE           KS   EMERGENCY MNGR

            1/4 MILE SECTION OF NORTHWEST 30TH STREET HAD 1 FOOT OF
            WATER FLOWING OVER THE ROAD

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RABERDING

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 6, 9:29 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SGF	Vernon	5 days
Oct 6, 11:10 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Barton, Jasper, Vernon	6 hr
Oct 6, 3:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Stone	25 min
Oct 5, 8:34 PM CDT	River Flood Watch	SGF	Bourbon	3 days
Oct 6, 8:38 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Cherokee, Crawford	6 hr
Oct 6, 9:29 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SGF	Bourbon	59 hr
Oct 6, 6:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Bourbon	32 min
Oct 6, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Bourbon	47 min

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2016 Every areal flood warning in 2016

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.