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Flash Flood Warning 79, NWS Springfield, MO

September 10, 2016Camden County, Morgan County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Sep 10, 2016, 12:20 AM CDT for Camden County, Morgan 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: Sep 10, 2016, 12:20 AM CDT (05:20 UTC)
Expired: Sep 10, 2016, 6:15 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Camden County, MO, Morgan County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:19 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
Sep 10, 1:00 AM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	Versailles, MO	FLASH FLOODING CAUSED WATER TO FLOW OVER MARVIN ROAD EAST OF VERSAILLES. SEVERAL BASEMENTS INSIDE THE CITY OF VERSAILLES FLOODED DUE TO HEAVY RAINFALL.

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, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 2416 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1026 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 136 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 140 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.3
Supercell composite: 7.6

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The text

As transmitted.

512 
WGUS53 KSGF 100520
FFWSGF
MOC029-141-101115-
/O.NEW.KSGF.FF.W.0079.160910T0520Z-160910T1115Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1220 AM CDT SAT SEP 10 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN MORGAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI...
  NORTHWESTERN CAMDEN COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI...

* UNTIL 615 AM CDT
    
* AT 1219 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS
  PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. ONE 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.

THIS WARNING INCLUDES BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING LOW WATER
CROSSINGS...
ROUTE O NEAR LAURIE...
AND RITCHEY ROAD AT GRAVOIS CREEK NORTHEAST OF GRAVOIS MILLS.

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.

TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.

&&

LAT...LON 3844 9264 3836 9263 3835 9264 3835 9269
      3824 9270 3821 9273 3819 9277 3819 9308
      3835 9308 3840 9307 3848 9270

$$

LINDENBERG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 9, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Texas	48 min
Sep 9, 7:32 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Dent, Phelps, Texas	6 hr
Sep 9, 10:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Barton, Cedar, Jasper, St. Clair, Vernon	56 min
Sep 9, 10:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Barton, Cedar, Dade, Jasper, Lawrence, McDonald and 2 more	58 min
Sep 9, 11:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Benton, Morgan	6 hr
Sep 9, 11:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Barry, Benton, Camden, Dade, Dallas, Greene and 7 more	63 min
Sep 10, 12:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Maries, Miller	64 min
Sep 10, 12:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Barry, Camden, Christian, Dallas, Greene, Laclede and 4 more	61 min
Sep 10, 12:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Barry, Camden, Christian, Dallas, Greene, Laclede and 4 more	63 min
Sep 10, 1:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Douglas, Ozark, Phelps, Pulaski, Taney, Texas and 1 more	57 min
Sep 10, 4:50 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Benton, Morgan	6 hr
Sep 10, 8:08 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SGF	Bates, Vernon	5 days

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.