Alert archive / Missouri / Flood Watches in 2022
Flood Watch 9, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flood watch at May 31, 2022, 3:51 AM CDT for 22 counties in Missouri; Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas. It took effect at May 31, 2022, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 23 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 2022, 3:51 AM CDT (08:51 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 31, 2022, 7:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2022, 6:29 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Flood severity
- None
All 25 counties
Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Barton County, MO, Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Maries County, MO, Miller County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Newton County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:54 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 242 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
- 1601 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1401 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 7.9
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 8:38 AM CDT | River Flood Watch | SGF | Bates, Vernon | 25 hr |
| May 31, 8:38 AM CDT | River Flood Watch | SGF | Vernon | 4 days |
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.