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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Springfield, MO

May 30, 2016Cedar County, Vernon County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 30, 2016, 1:50 PM CDT for Cedar County, Vernon County, Missouri. It was in force for 3 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 30, 2016, 1:50 PM CDT (18:50 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2016, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Cedar County, MO, Vernon County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:50 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 30, 3:30 PM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	2 Sw El Dorado Springs, MO	THE SHERIFF OFFICE REPORTED A COUPLE ROADS FLOODED AND IMPASSABLE NEAR 151 ROAD AND EAST 500 ROAD WEST OF HIGHWAY 32 AND SOUTHWEST OF EL DORADO SPRINGS.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 104 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: 434 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1375 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

514 
WGUS53 KSGF 301850
FFWSGF
MOC039-217-302145-
/O.NEW.KSGF.FF.W.0013.160530T1850Z-160530T2145Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
150 PM CDT MON MAY 30 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN CEDAR COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI...
  SOUTHEASTERN VERNON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...

* UNTIL 445 PM CDT
    
* AT 150 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING
  HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS
  ALREADY FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.

* CREEKS...STREAMS...AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS WILL BE ESPECIALLY
  SUSCEPTIBLE TO THE DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODING.
  LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...

  EL DORADO SPRINGS...              MONTEVALLO...
  MILO...                           OLYMPIA...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY.  DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY
AUTOMOBILE.

&&

LAT...LON 3790 9404 3770 9401 3769 9414 3767 9435
      3775 9433 3790 9419

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 12:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Jasper	36 min
May 30, 1:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cedar, St. Clair, Vernon	48 min
May 30, 3:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Camden	46 min
May 30, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Phelps, Pulaski, Texas	40 min
May 30, 6:37 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Dent, Laclede, Phelps, Pulaski, Shannon, Texas	3 hr

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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.