1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jul 30, 2:50 AM CST, 6 hours 36 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 350 AM CDT FRI JUL 30 2004 .DISCUSSION... EARLY THIS MORNING...A BAND OF SHOWERS WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM NEAR THE CASSVILLE AREA...NORTHEASTWARD THROUGH ROLLA. LIGHTNING STRIKES HAVE INCREASED OVER THE PAST HOUR ACROSS CENTRAL MISSOURI. RUC BEST LI VALUES HAVE BEEN ON THE DECREASE...WITH VALUES DROPPING TO -2 DEG C ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA. THE PRECIPITATION LOOKS TO BE DRIVEN BY A 35 TO 40 KT LOW LEVEL JET SITUATED IN ADVANCE OF AN AREA OF 850 MB LOW PRESSURE CENTERED ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS. GENERALLY FOLLOWED THE ETA SOLUTION...WHICH SHOWS THE BEST CHANCE OF RAIN ACROSS MY EASTERN THIRD OF COUNTIES AFTER 12Z. ETA ISENTROPIC CHARTS AND 850 MB MOISTURE TRANSPORT VECTORS BOTH INDICATE THE CURRENT AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TRANSLATING EAST OF THE SPRINGFIELD AREA WITHIN THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. GRIDDED POPS FROM 12Z TO 18Z WILL TREND FROM AROUND 40 PERCENT AT SGF...TO 60/70 PERCENT EAST OF A ROLLA TO WEST PLAINS LINE. POPS DROP OFF RAPIDLY TO THE WEST...AS ISENTROPIC DOWNGLIDE OCCURS EARLY THIS MORNING ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND FAR WESTERN MISSOURI. AFTER 18Z...A FEW SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY LINGER ACROSS MY FAR EASTERN COUNTIES. ANOTHER CONCERN TODAY WILL BE TEMPERATURES. SATELLITE IMAGERY INDICATES THE BACK EDGE OF THE LOW STRATUS DECK EXTENDING WEST OF AN EMPORIA KANSAS TO OKLAHOMA CITY LINE. ETA RH PROFILES SHOW SOME BREAKS IN THE CLOUDS ACROSS EASTERN KANSAS AND FAR WESTERN MISSOURI BY EARLY AFTERNOON. HOWEVER...THICK CLOUD COVER MAY LINGER MUCH OF THE DAY ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTH-CENTRAL MISSOURI. STAYED NEAR GUIDANCE TEMPERATURES ACROSS WESTERN MISSOURI...BUT UNDERCUT GUIDANCE BY SEVERAL DEGREES ACROSS MY EASTERN COUNTIES. GRIDDED HIGHS TODAY RANGE FROM THE LOWER 80S ACROSS EASTERN KANSAS...TO THE MIDDLE 70S OVER SOUTH-CENTRAL MISSOURI. LITTLE CHANGES MADE TO THE REMAINDER OF THE FORECAST. AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE LOOKS TO BUILD ACROSS THE CENTRAL U.S. THIS WEEKEND. THIS WILL ALLOW AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES TO RISE INTO THE 90S. IN ADDITION...HEAT INDICES ARE EXPECTED TO EXCEED 100 DEGREES NORTH AND WEST OF THE OZARK PLATEAU BEGINNING MONDAY AND CONTINUING FOR MUCH OF THE WEEK. FOR NOW...THE LONG TERM GRIDS ARE DRY. UPPER DISTURBANCES ON THE EDGE OF THE RIDGE MAY TOUCH OFF SOME CONVECTION. AT THIS TIME...ANY STORMS LOOK TO AFFECT LOCATIONS NORTH AND EAST OF THE FORECAST AREA. SAW && .AVIATION... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE EARLY THIS MORNING FROM THE CASSVILLE AREA NORTHEAST TO THE SPRINGFIELD...LEBANON...AND ROLLA AREAS NORTH OF A SFC LOW OVER NW AR. VISIBILITY OCCASIONALLY DROPPING BETWEEN 1-2 MILES IN HEAVY RAINFALL AS THE INDIVIDUAL SHOWERS MOVE NORTHEAST AT 35-40 MPH. HAVE GENERALLY SEEN MVFR/VFR CEILINGS EAST OF THE LOW CENTER...EVEN WITH THE HEAVIER SHOWERS...HOWEVER...EXPECT A BRIEF PERIOD OF IFR CEILINGS TO CONTINUE TO SPREAD EAST INTO THE AREA THIS MORNING AS THE LOW CENTER MOVES THROUGH SOUTHERN AND EASTERN MO. CEILINGS/VISIBILITY WILL GRADUALLY IMPROVE FROM WEST TO EAST OVER THE FORECAST AREA LATER TODAY...BUT THE EASTERN OZARKS WILL LIKELY SEE LOW CEILINGS WELL INTO THE AFTERNOON HOURS BEFORE IMPROVING. WEAK SFC HIGH BUILDS INTO THE AREA TONIGHT...AND IT LOOKS LIKE A GOOD SETUP FOR RADIATION FOG TONIGHT. DSA && .SGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MO...NONE. KS...NONE. WFO SGF
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 442 AM CDT FRI JUL 30 2004 KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>057-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-301800- BARRY-BARTON-BENTON-BOURBON-CAMDEN-CEDAR-CHEROKEE-CHRISTIAN-CRAWFORD- DADE-DALLAS-DENT-DOUGLAS-GREENE-HICKORY-HOWELL-JASPER-LACLEDE- LAWRENCE-MCDONALD-MILLER-MORGAN-NEWTON-OREGON-OZARK-PHELPS-POLK- PULASKI-SHANNON-ST. CLAIR-STONE-TANEY-TEXAS-VERNON-WEBSTER-WRIGHT- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...AVA...BOLIVAR...BRANSON...CAMDENTON... FORT LEONARD WOOD...FORT SCOTT...HOUSTON...JOPLIN...LEBANON... MONETT...MOUNT VERNON...NEOSHO...NEVADA...OSAGE BEACH...OZARK... PITTSBURG...ROLLA...SPRINGFIELD...STOCKTON AND WEST PLAINS. 442 AM CDT FRI JUL 30 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE MISSOURI OZARKS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED: WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL. AREAS AFFECTED AND TIMING: LOCATIONS GENERALLY EAST OF A CASSVILLE...TO SPRINGFIELD...TO ROLLA LINE DURING THE MORNING HOURS. DISCUSSION: SHOWERS WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WILL TRACK EASTWARD ACROSS SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL MISSOURI THIS MORNING...AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE PUSHES THROUGH THE OZARKS REGION. INSTABILITY WILL BE LIMITED TODAY...THEREFORE SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. SOME BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE...WHICH MAY LEAD TO PONDING OF WATER ON AREA ROADWAYS THIS MORNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. HEAT AND HUMIDITY WILL RETURN TO THE OZARKS BY LATE IN THE WEEKEND AND MUCH OF THE UPCOMING WORK WEEK. AFTERNOON HIGH TEMPERATURES MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY WILL BE IN THE LOW TO MID 90S...WITH HEAT INDICES FROM 100 TO 108. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT. SAW
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 124 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 15:23 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flash flooding washed out a section of Highway 42 near the community of Belle.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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