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Flash Flood Warning 94, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Oct 6, 2016, 7:07 PM CDT for Bourbon County, Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr. 3 reports 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
- Oct 6, 2016, 7:07 PM CDT (00:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 7, 2016, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Bourbon County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:07 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 7:15 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Devon, KS | MULTIPLE LOW WATER CROSSINGS ARE FLOODED IN NORTHERN BOURBON COUNTY |
| Oct 7, 12:04 AM CDT | FLOOD | 2 E Xenia, KS | KANSAS HIGHWAY K-65 CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING ALONG THE LITTLE OSAGE RIVER |
| Oct 7, 12:04 AM CDT | FLOOD | 2 W Fulton, KS | KANSAS HIGHWAY K-31 CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING ALONG THE LITTLE OSAGE RIVER |
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, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 151 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1400 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 990 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 281 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.2
- Supercell composite
- 11.3
The text
As transmitted.
694 WGUS53 KSGF 070007 FFWSGF KSC011-070600- /O.NEW.KSGF.FF.W.0094.161007T0007Z-161007T0600Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 707 PM CDT THU OCT 6 2016 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BOURBON COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS... * UNTIL 100 AM CDT * AT 706 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING 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. LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE... MARMATON... BRONSON... UNIONTOWN... FULTON... REDFIELD... MAPLETON... XENIA... HARDING... HIATTVILLE... PETERSBURG... HAMMOND... DEVON... THIS WARNING INCLUDES BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING LOW WATER CROSSINGS... HIGHWAY 31 AT LITTLE OSAGE RIVER 5 MILES WEST OF FULTON. 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. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES. && LAT...LON 3804 9508 3803 9462 3772 9486 3772 9508 $$ LINDENBERG
1 follow-up statement
891 WGUS73 KSGF 070552 FFSSGF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1252 AM CDT FRI OCT 7 2016 KSC011-070600- /O.EXP.KSGF.FF.W.0094.000000T0000Z-161007T0600Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BOURBON KS- 1252 AM CDT FRI OCT 7 2016 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR BOURBON COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 100 AM CDT... RAIN WAS TAPERING OFF ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO POSE A THREAT TO LIFE AND PROPERTY. HOWEVER WITH CONTINUED RUNOFF EXPECTED THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL BE REPLACED WITH AN AREAL FLOOD WARNING. PLEASE CONTINUE TO HEED ANY ROAD CLOSURES. LAT...LON 3804 9508 3803 9462 3772 9486 3772 9508 $$ FOSTER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 9:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SGF | Bourbon | 43 min |
| Oct 6, 10:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SGF | Cherokee | 47 min |
| Oct 7, 12:57 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | SGF | Bourbon | 22 hr |
| Oct 7, 11:14 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | SGF | Cherokee, Crawford | 12 hr |
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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.