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Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Springfield, MO

July 4, 2016Texas County, Wright County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 4, 2016, 2:03 AM CDT for Texas County, Wright County, Missouri. It was in force for 6 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: Jul 4, 2016, 2:03 AM CDT (07:03 UTC)
Expired: Jul 4, 2016, 8:00 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Texas County, MO, Wright County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:07 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 4, 8:00 AM CDT	HEAVY RAIN 4.27	5 S Hartville, MO	24 HOUR RAINFALL TOTAL OF 4.27 INCHES

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 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 139 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: 1275 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 717 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 130 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 266 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 7.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

635 
WGUS53 KSGF 040703
FFWSGF
MOC215-229-041300-
/O.NEW.KSGF.FF.W.0030.160704T0703Z-160704T1300Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
203 AM CDT MON JUL 4 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WRIGHT COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI...
  TEXAS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI...

* UNTIL 800 AM CDT
    
* AT 203 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING
  HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO THREE 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.

THIS WARNING INCLUDES BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING LOW WATER
CROSSINGS...
ROUTE E NORTH OF HIGHWAY 38 AT THE GASCONADE RIVER...
AND ROUTE U AT THE JACKS FORK 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF CLEAR SPRINGS.

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE
WARNED AREA.

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.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.

&&

LAT...LON 3707 9268 3732 9268 3742 9165 3705 9166

$$

LINDENBERG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 3, 7:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	McDonald, Newton	42 min
Jul 3, 11:25 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Dallas, Polk	9 hr
Jul 3, 11:51 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Cedar, Dallas, Polk	8 hr
Jul 4, 12:47 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Phelps, Pulaski, Texas, Webster, Wright	6 hr
Jul 4, 1:39 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Barton, Cedar, Dade, Jasper	6 hr
Jul 4, 3:16 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Shannon	6 hr
Jul 4, 3:47 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Shannon	6 hr
Jul 4, 6:10 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Camden, Dallas, Laclede	6 hr
Jul 4, 6:33 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Greene, Laclede, Webster, Wright	6 hr
Jul 4, 6:40 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Dent, Phelps, Pulaski, Texas	6 hr
Jul 4, 7:31 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Barton, Cedar, Dade, Hickory, Jasper, Polk	6 hr
Jul 4, 7:43 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Texas, Wright	6 hr
Jul 4, 12:18 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Camden, Dallas, Laclede	6 hr
Jul 4, 12:38 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Dallas, Laclede, Phelps, Pulaski, Texas, Webster and 1 more	6 hr
Jul 4, 1:27 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Barton, Jasper	5 hr
Jul 4, 2:41 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	SGF	Barton, Benton, Camden, Cedar, Dade, Dallas and 15 more	29 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.