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Areal Flood Warning 39, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this areal flood warning at Aug 30, 2018, 4:15 PM CDT for 8 counties in Missouri; Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas. 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
- Aug 30, 2018, 4:15 PM CDT (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2018, 10:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Barry County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Greene County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Polk County, MO, Stone County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 31 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
- 1450 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 792 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Aug 30, 2:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 30, 2:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 29, 8:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | SGF | Barry, Barton, Benton, Camden, Cedar, Christian and 21 more | 21 hr |
| Aug 29, 9:58 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | SGF | Douglas, Webster, Wright | 6 hr |
| Aug 30, 7:37 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SGF | Christian | 23 min |
| Aug 30, 7:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Stone | 31 min |
| Aug 30, 7:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry | 23 min |
| Aug 30, 7:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Vernon | 51 min |
| Aug 30, 8:30 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SGF | Christian | 45 min |
| Aug 30, 8:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | St. Clair | 36 min |
| Aug 30, 9:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Vernon | 45 min |
| Aug 30, 9:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SGF | Cedar | 40 min |
| Aug 30, 9:12 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SGF | Christian, Greene, Stone | 6 hr |
| Aug 30, 9:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SGF | Greene | 42 min |
| Aug 30, 10:04 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SGF | Barton, Vernon | 6 hr |
| Aug 30, 10:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barton, Jasper | 6 hr |
| Aug 30, 10:34 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Dade, Greene, Polk | 6 hr |
| Aug 30, 10:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene | 26 min |
| Aug 30, 11:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Christian, Greene, Lawrence, Stone | 5 hr |
| Aug 30, 11:30 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SGF | Benton, Camden, Dallas, Hickory, Miller, Morgan | 6 hr |
| Aug 30, 1:05 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SGF | Barton | 4 hr |
| Aug 30, 2:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SGF | Jasper, Newton | 40 min |
| Aug 30, 3:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SGF | McDonald | 46 min |
| Aug 30, 7:07 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SGF | Bourbon | 38 min |
| Aug 30, 8:34 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Bourbon | 6 hr |
| Aug 30, 10:06 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SGF | Cherokee | 39 min |
| Aug 30, 2:20 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | SGF | Bourbon | 20 hr |
Nearby
Areal Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2018Areal Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2018Every areal flood warning in 2018
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.