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Flash Flood Watch 4, NWS Springfield, MO

May 14, 202017 counties in Missouri; Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood watch at May 14, 2020, 3:12 AM CDT for 17 counties in Missouri; Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas. It took effect at May 15, 2020, 12:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 14, 2020, 3:12 AM CDT (08:12 UTC)
In effect from: May 15, 2020, 12:00 AM CDT
Expired: May 15, 2020, 12:00 PM CDT
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Flood severity: None

Counties Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Miller County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Newton County, MO, Polk County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:12 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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 223 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 100 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -405 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 668 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 258 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 392 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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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 May 13, 11:51 PM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 13, 11:51 PM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 7:22 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SGF	Vernon	5 days
May 14, 9:50 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SGF	Vernon	4 days
May 14, 9:52 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SGF	Cedar	60 hr
May 14, 2:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Taney	29 min
May 14, 3:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene, Webster	50 min
May 14, 3:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Greene, Webster	21 min
May 14, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Taney	62 min
May 14, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas, Greene, Polk	59 min
May 14, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Webster, Wright	47 min
May 14, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas, Ozark, Taney	38 min
May 14, 5:52 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Christian, Douglas, Webster, Wright	5 hr
May 14, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas, Wright	60 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Watches in Missouri, 2020 Flash Flood Watches in Kansas, 2020 Every flash flood watch in 2020

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.