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Areal Flood Warning 1, NWS Springfield, MO

April 5, 20175 counties in Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this areal flood warning at Apr 5, 2017, 2:42 AM CDT for 5 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 7 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 5, 2017, 2:42 AM CDT (07:42 UTC)
Expired
Apr 5, 2017, 9:45 AM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Springfield, MO
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Dent County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Texas County, MO, Wright County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 177 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2017-04-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 326 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2017-04-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 312 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
326 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1384 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
312 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
743 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.0
Supercell composite
12.5

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this areal flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this areal flood warning went out at Apr 5, 12:08 AM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 5, 12:08 AM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 4, 10:17 PM CDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1017 PM CDT TUE APR 04 2017

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1000 PM     HAIL             WAYNESVILLE             37.83N 92.20W
04/04/2017  E1.00 INCH       PULASKI            MO   TRAINED SPOTTER

            QUARTER SIZED HAIL REPORTED IN WAYNESVILLE.

&&

RFRYE
Local storm report, Apr 4, 10:38 PM CDT, 4 hours 4 minutes before
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Local storm report, Apr 4, 11:11 PM CDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before
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Local storm report, Apr 4, 11:16 PM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before
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Local storm report, Apr 5, 12:27 AM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 4, 7:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFBarry, Lawrence, Newton46 min
Apr 4, 7:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFBarry, McDonald, Newton59 min
Apr 4, 7:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFChristian, Dade, Greene63 min
Apr 4, 8:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFBarry, Lawrence, Stone43 min
Apr 4, 8:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFChristian, Dallas, Polk, Webster60 min
Apr 4, 8:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFLaclede, Wright66 min
Apr 4, 9:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFChristian, Stone, Taney51 min
Apr 4, 9:24 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFChristian, Douglas, Taney, Webster, Wright51 min
Apr 4, 9:46 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFOzark, Taney44 min
Apr 4, 9:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFLaclede, Phelps, Pulaski, Texas, Wright41 min
Apr 4, 10:25 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFDouglas, Howell, Ozark50 min
Apr 4, 10:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFDent, Maries, Phelps, Pulaski, Texas61 min
Apr 4, 11:01 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFHowell, Shannon, Texas44 min
Apr 4, 11:41 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFShannon37 min
Apr 4, 11:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFHowell, Oregon, Shannon37 min
Apr 5, 12:44 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisorySGFDent, Douglas, Howell, Laclede, Ozark, Phelps and 3 more9 hr
Apr 5, 3:32 AM CDTWind AdvisorySGFBarry, Barton, Benton, Cedar, Christian, Dade and 10 more15 hr
Apr 5, 9:44 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningSGFDent, Douglas, Howell, Laclede, Ozark, Texas and 1 more6 hr
Apr 5, 6:32 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningSGFPulaski13 hr
Apr 4, 8:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFBourbon, Cherokee, Crawford60 min

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2017Every areal flood warning in 2017

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.