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Areal Flood Warning 2, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this areal flood warning at Feb 23, 2018, 6:23 PM CST for Barry County, McDonald County, Newton County, Missouri. It was in force for 18 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
- Feb 23, 2018, 6:23 PM CST (00:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2018, 12:15 PM CST
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Barry County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:25 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 336 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 443 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 360 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 476 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 Feb 23, 5:19 PM CST, 1 hour 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 23, 5:19 PM CST, 1 hour 4 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 8:21 PM CST | Areal Flood Warning | SGF | Jasper, Lawrence | 17 hr |
| Feb 23, 11:40 PM CST | Areal Flood Warning | SGF | Christian, Dade, Dallas, Douglas, Greene, Polk and 4 more | 15 hr |
| Feb 24, 12:31 AM CST | River Flood Warning | SGF | Cedar | 52 hr |
| Feb 24, 12:45 AM CST | River Flood Warning | SGF | Pulaski | 42 hr |
| Feb 24, 12:45 AM CST | River Flood Warning | SGF | Pulaski | 64 hr |
| Feb 24, 12:45 AM CST | River Flood Warning | SGF | Phelps | 4 days |
| Feb 24, 1:07 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | SGF | Camden, Dent, Laclede, Phelps, Pulaski, Texas | 15 hr |
| Feb 24, 2:31 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | SGF | Maries, Miller | 12 hr |
| Feb 24, 5:33 AM CST | River Flood Warning | SGF | Stone | 45 hr |
| Feb 24, 7:46 AM CST | River Flood Warning | SGF | Jasper | 56 hr |
| Feb 24, 7:46 AM CST | River Flood Warning | SGF | McDonald | 61 hr |
| Feb 24, 11:02 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Jasper, McDonald, Newton | 8 hr |
| Feb 24, 12:09 PM CST | Areal Flood Warning | SGF | Barry, Christian, Dade, Dallas, Douglas, Greene and 7 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 24, 12:53 PM CST | River Flood Warning | SGF | Jasper | 52 hr |
| Feb 24, 1:01 PM CST | River Flood Warning | SGF | Shannon | 24 hr |
| Feb 24, 2:29 PM CST | Areal Flood Warning | SGF | Camden, Dent, Laclede, Maries, Miller, Phelps and 2 more | 30 hr |
| Feb 24, 2:43 PM CST | Areal Flood Warning | SGF | Howell, Oregon, Shannon | 30 hr |
| Feb 24, 2:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Howell, Ozark | 44 min |
| Feb 24, 12:53 PM CST | River Flood Warning | SGF | Cherokee | 60 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.