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Areal Flood Warning 21, NWS Springfield, MO

March 24, 2023Barry County, McDonald County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this areal flood warning at Mar 24, 2023, 5:07 AM CDT for Barry County, McDonald County, Missouri. It was in force for 10 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: Mar 24, 2023, 5:07 AM CDT (10:07 UTC)
Expired: Mar 24, 2023, 3:14 PM CDT
In force: 10 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Barry County, MO, McDonald County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 293 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 813 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 102 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 146 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Mar 24, 2:30 AM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 24, 2:30 AM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 23, 7:39 PM CDT, 9 hours 28 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Springfield MO
739 PM CDT Thu Mar 23 2023

KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-250045-
Bourbon-Crawford-Cherokee-Benton-Morgan-Miller-Maries-Vernon-
St. Clair-Hickory-Camden-Pulaski-Phelps-Barton-Cedar-Polk-Dallas-
Laclede-Texas-Dent-Jasper-Dade-Greene-Webster-Wright-Newton-
Lawrence-Christian-Douglas-Howell-Shannon-McDonald-Barry-Stone-
Taney-Ozark-Oregon-
739 PM CDT Thu Mar 23 2023

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of the Missouri
Ozarks and extreme southeast Kansas.

.DAY ONE...Tonight.

Weather hazards expected...

  Limited tornado risk.
  Limited hail risk.
  Limited thunderstorm wind damage risk.
  Significant lightning risk.
  Significant excessive rainfall risk

DISCUSSION...

  Showers and thunderstorms will continue to track across the
  area tonight. Heavy rain will occur with the thunderstorms which
  are expected to train across the same locations and cause
  flooding and flash flooding to occur. Highest rain totals where
  widespread 2 to 4 inches through Friday are expected along and
  south of a Joplin to Rolla line. Some localized areas may see 4
  to 6 inches of rain.

  Some of the storms south of the front will still have the
  potential to produce supercells where large hail to the size of
  golf balls, damaging wind gusts up to 60 mph and an isolated
  tornado will be possible. This will be mainly over far southern
  Missouri, south of a Salem to Cassville line.

  North of the front, there is still a risk of large hail to the
  size of quarters, but the main risk for both locations will be
  heavy rain and flooding.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Tuesday.

  The heavy rain and flooding potential will continue into Friday
  as the heaviest rain axis shifts southeast across the area. A
  second wave of strong to severe thunderstorms is expected to
  develop over south central Missouri Friday afternoon with
  damagingn wind gusts and large hail as the main severe weather
  risks. This risk is expected to be short lived before pushing
  east of our area and into the Ohio and Tennessee valley.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

  Spotter activation may still be needed through the late evening
  for far southern Missouri, mainly south of a Salem to Cassville
  line.

&&

More detailed information can be accessed at:
http://www.weather.gov/sgf/dsspacket

This product in graphical format...along with other weather...
hydrological and climate information...at
http://www.weather.gov/sgf

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 24, 2:43 AM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 24, 3:36 AM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 24, 3:38 AM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 24, 3:57 AM CDT, 1 hour 10 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
Mar 23, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dent, Shannon	39 min
Mar 23, 7:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	McDonald	37 min
Mar 23, 7:49 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Barry, McDonald, Newton	9 hr
Mar 23, 8:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Barry	25 min
Mar 23, 8:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Christian, Greene, Lawrence, Stone, Webster, Wright	8 hr
Mar 23, 8:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Christian	32 min
Mar 23, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Greene, Stone, Webster	33 min
Mar 23, 9:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas, Webster, Wright	39 min
Mar 23, 9:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Barry, McDonald	7 hr
Mar 23, 10:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Douglas, Ozark, Taney	48 min
Mar 23, 10:39 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Douglas, Texas	5 hr
Mar 23, 11:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell, Texas, Wright	40 min
Mar 23, 11:16 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Christian, Douglas, Howell, Ozark, Taney	107 min
Mar 23, 11:28 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Dent, Phelps, Pulaski	2 hr
Mar 23, 11:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Shannon	37 min
Mar 24, 1:03 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Douglas, Ozark, Taney	3 hr
Mar 24, 1:22 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Barry, Stone, Taney	3 hr
Mar 24, 1:31 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Camden, Dallas, Dent, Laclede, Maries, Miller and 3 more	14 hr
Mar 24, 3:27 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Douglas, Webster, Wright	12 hr
Mar 24, 3:34 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Douglas, Texas	12 hr
Mar 24, 3:38 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Douglas, Ozark, Taney	12 hr
Mar 24, 4:11 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Barry, Stone, Taney	11 hr
Mar 24, 4:23 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Christian, Greene, Lawrence, Stone, Webster, Wright	11 hr
Mar 24, 4:32 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Christian, Stone	11 hr
Mar 24, 4:35 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Barry, McDonald, Newton	10 hr
Mar 24, 4:42 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Dent, Shannon, Texas	11 hr
Mar 24, 1:24 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Howell, Oregon, Ozark, Shannon, Taney	13 hr
Mar 24, 2:36 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Dent, Douglas, Ozark, Shannon, Taney, Texas and 1 more	33 hr
Mar 24, 2:59 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Barry, Camden, Christian, Greene, Laclede, McDonald and 7 more	11 hr

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2023 Every areal flood warning in 2023

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.