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Flash Flood Warning 54, NWS Springfield, MO

July 8, 2025Ozark County, Taney County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 8, 2025, 1:17 PM CDT for Ozark County, Taney 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
Jul 8, 2025, 1:17 PM CDT (18:17 UTC)
Expired
Jul 8, 2025, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Springfield, MO
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Ozark County, MO, Taney County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:19 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 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 98 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2025-07-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1201 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2025-07-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 46 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1201 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-58 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
905 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
37 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 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 Jul 8, 12:43 PM CDT, 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 12:43 PM CDT, 34 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 8, 12:40 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Springfield MO
1240 PM CDT Tue Jul 8 2025

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1159 PM     Rain             1 W Turners             37.18N 93.17W
07/06/2025  M5.50 Inch       Greene             MO   Public

            Relayed from Brandon Beck via contact.sgf.

&&

REN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 7, 7:02 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSGFShannon, Texas6 hr
Jul 8, 2:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFCedar44 min
Jul 8, 2:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFHickory, Polk46 min
Jul 8, 3:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSGFDallas29 min
Jul 8, 4:09 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSGFDade36 min
Jul 8, 5:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSGFBarton31 min
Jul 8, 6:18 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSGFPhelps3 hr
Jul 8, 6:32 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSGFCherokee28 min

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.