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Flash Flood Watch 19, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood watch at Aug 29, 2019, 2:46 PM CDT for 14 counties in Missouri; Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas. It took effect at Aug 30, 2019, 3:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 29, 2019, 2:46 PM CDT (19:46 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 30, 2019, 3:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 30, 2019, 8:57 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Barton County, MO, Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jasper County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Newton County, MO, Polk County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:49 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 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 407 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -123 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1174 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 flash flood watch went out at Aug 29, 2:32 PM CDT, 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 29, 2:32 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
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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.