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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Springfield, MO

May 26, 2016Benton County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 26, 2016, 8:10 PM CDT for Benton County, Missouri. It was in force for 5 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 2016, 8:10 PM CDT (01:10 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2016, 1:15 AM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Benton County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:12 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 172 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: 2671 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 781 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 2.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

235 
WGUS53 KSGF 270110
FFWSGF
MOC015-270615-
/O.NEW.KSGF.FF.W.0008.160527T0110Z-160527T0615Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
810 PM CDT THU MAY 26 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  BENTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI...

* UNTIL 115 AM CDT
    
* AT 809 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...
  TRUMAN STATE PARK...              WARSAW...
  LINCOLN...                        COLE CAMP...
  IONIA...                          PALO PINTO...
  RACKET...                         EDMONSON...
  MORA...                           LAKEVIEW HEIGHTS...
  ZORA...                           CROCKERVILLE...
  BRANDON...                        WHITAKERVILLE...

THIS WARNING INCLUDES BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING LOW WATER
CROSSINGS...
ROUTE WW AT ARCHER CREEK NORTHEAST OF LAKEVIEW HEIGHTS...
ROUTE B AT WILLIAMS CREEK SOUTHEAST OF COLE CAMP...
AND ROUTE F AT COLE CAMP CREEK SOUTHWEST OF COLE CAMP.

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 3853 9307 3826 9308 3815 9350 3820 9350
      3822 9353 3851 9350 3851 9330 3854 9329
      3854 9326

$$

FRYE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	St. Clair	28 min
May 26, 7:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Miller	26 min
May 26, 7:42 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Miller	4 hr
May 26, 7:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Benton	27 min
May 26, 7:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	St. Clair	51 min
May 26, 8:17 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Miller	5 hr
May 26, 8:44 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Miller, Morgan	5 hr
May 26, 9:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Dent, Phelps	41 min
May 27, 1:02 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Benton, Miller, Morgan	9 hr
May 27, 10:03 AM CDT	River Flood Watch	SGF	Vernon	4 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.