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Flash Flood Warning 60, NWS Springfield, MO

June 29, 2024St. Clair County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 29, 2024, 2:01 AM CDT for St. Clair County, Missouri. It was in force for 6 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: Jun 29, 2024, 2:01 AM CDT (07:01 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 2024, 8:15 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County St. Clair County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:00 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 126 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: 1705 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -127 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1317 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 205 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 273 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 13.9

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash 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 flash flood warning went out at Jun 29, 12:18 AM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 12:18 AM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 29, 12:14 AM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Springfield MO
1214 AM CDT Sat Jun 29 2024

MOZ055-056-067>069-080-290615-
Dallas MO-Camden MO-Benton MO-Hickory MO-Morgan MO-St. Clair MO-
1214 AM CDT Sat Jun 29 2024

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT HICKORY...NORTHERN DALLAS...
BENTON...SOUTHEASTERN ST. CLAIR...WESTERN CAMDEN AND WESTERN MORGAN
COUNTIES THROUGH 115 AM CDT...

At 1214 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from near Green Ridge to near Warsaw to 7 miles
north of Hermitage to near Humansville. Movement was east at 35 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects.

Locations impacted include...
Truman State Park, Pomme De Terre State Park, Truman Lake, Pomme de
Terre Lake, Lake of The Ozarks, Versailles, Warsaw, Lincoln, Cole
Camp, Stover, Laurie, Hermitage, Weaubleau, Wheatland, Macks Creek,
Preston, Cross Timbers, Collins, Climax Springs, and Vista.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

Torrential rainfall is also occurring with these storms and may lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 400 AM CDT for
central and west central Missouri.

&&

LAT...LON 3860 9284 3789 9284 3789 9286 3788 9286
      3787 9377 3851 9329 3854 9329 3853 9307
      3861 9306
TIME...MOT...LOC 0514Z 274DEG 32KT 3856 9341 3830 9330 3805 9328 3784
9362

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH

Wise

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 28, 11:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton	62 min
Jun 29, 12:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Benton, Hickory, Morgan	61 min
Jun 29, 12:30 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Benton, Hickory, St. Clair	6 hr
Jun 29, 4:02 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Hickory, St. Clair	6 hr
Jun 29, 5:06 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Cedar, Dade, Dallas, Hickory, Polk, St. Clair	6 hr
Jun 29, 5:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Cedar	28 min
Jun 29, 5:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Barton	35 min
Jun 29, 5:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Miller	35 min
Jun 29, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Vernon	36 min
Jun 29, 6:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Cedar	22 min
Jun 29, 6:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Barton	30 min
Jun 29, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Jasper	19 min
Jun 29, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Vernon	29 min
Jun 29, 6:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Camden	25 min
Jun 29, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cedar, Polk	18 min
Jun 29, 5:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Crawford	23 min
Jun 29, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cherokee	50 min

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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.