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 9, 2:16 AM CST, 8 hours 51 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 316 AM CDT FRI JUL 9 2004 .DISCUSSION... GREETINGS FROM THE VALLEY OF MCVS. ANOTHER VERY CHALLENGING FORECAST THIS MORNING AS WELL DEFINED MCV JUST SOUTH OF SGF SEEMS TO BE GOING NOWHERE FAST, WHILE HUGE MCS MOVING INTO EASTERN KANSAS AND NEBRASKA HAS GENERATED A STRONG COLD POOL AND ANOTHER MCV WILL LIKELY EMERGE LATER THIS MORNING. HOW THESE 2 FEATURES INTERACT IS THE KEY TO TODAYS FORECAST. SOUTHERN EDGE OF KANSAS MCS SHOULD PROPAGATE SSE TO SOUTH AS LLJ VEERS THIS MORNING. THINK THAT EASTERN EDGE OF WEAKENING CONVECTION SHOULD MOVE INTO SE KANSAS BY AROUND 12Z, BUT HOW THIS LINE REACTS TO WELL DEFINED AND DEEP EASTERLY MID LEVEL FLOW AROUND SGF MCV IS UNKNOWN. IN ANY CASE, SLIGHTLY ELEVATED CAPE OF AROUND 1200 J/KG WILL LAST BEYOND DAWN AS REMNANTS OF LINE APPROACH, SO THINK AT LEAST HI CHANCE POPS WARRANTED ACROSS NWRN CWA THIS MORNING. FOR LATER IN THE DAY, 06Z ETA DOES INITIALIZE BOTH MCVS WELL, AND DOES A FUJIWARA STYLE INTERACTION, BRINGING THE SGF VORT A BIT NORTH WHILE THE KANSAS VORT SLIDES SWD INTO CENTRAL OK. STEEP LAPSE RATES YIELD MIDDAY ML CAPES OF OVER 1000 J/KG EVEN WITH MODEST RECOVERY OF SURFACE TEMPS TO THE UPPER 70S. THINK SCATTERED CONVECTION A GOOD BET THROUGH THE AFTERNOON, ESPECIALLY OVER THE WRN HALF OF THE CWA CLOSEST TO THE MCVS. WILL CONTINUE FLOOD WATCH IN SE KANSAS AND FAR SW MO COUNTIES. OVERNIGHT CONVECTION DID NOT MATERIALIZE, BUT AM LEARY OF CANCELLING WATCH ATTM WITH KANSAS MCS APPROACHING. WEAKNESS IN THE 500 MB SUBTROPICAL RIDGE CONTINUES OVER AREA THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT, AND WITH LACK OF CAP, THINK THAT PULSE TYPE THUNDERSTORMS ARE A GOOD BET SATURDAY. 06Z ETA SOUNDING BROUGHT TO 85/70 YEILDS SBCAPE OF 2500 J/KG SATURDAY AFTERNOON WITH NO CAP. ETA CONTINUES TO SHOW REMNANTS OF MCV OVER AREA, AND EVEN WEAK FORCING COULD EASILY TRIGGER CONVECTION IN SUCH AN UNSTABLE AND UNCAPPED ATMOSPHERE. MID LEVEL TROUGH FILLS A BIT ON SUNDAY AS THICKNESSES INCREASE 10 TO 20 GPM, BUT CHANCE POPS STILL LOOK WARRANTED AS BL AIRMASS CHANGES LITTLE AND TROUGH IS STILL EVIDENT. 00Z GFS AND ECMWF RUNS SHOW A WARMUP EARLY IN THE WORK WEEK AS HEIGHTS BUILD, THEN THE RIDGE GETS BEATEN DOWN BY 00Z FRIDAY AND A COLD FRONT EDGES INTO THE AREA. BROWNING && .AVIATION... MCV OVER SOUTHERN MO IS DRIFTING ONLY VERY SLOWLY SOUTH TONIGHT. PROFILERS INDICATE A 35 KNOT 850MB JET EXTENDING FROM THE RED RIVER INTO NORTHEAST KS AND NW MO. ANOTHER CONVECTIVE COMPLEX CONTINUES TO PUSH SOUTHEAST AT 30 TO 40 KNOTS INTO EAST CENTRAL KANSAS TAKE AIM AT THE KSGF/KJLN AGAIN TOWARDS SUNRISE WITH GUSTY WINDS AND MVFR/LOCALIZED IFR CONDITIONS WITH HEAVIER SHRA/TSRA. DA/SSL && .SGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MO...FLOOD WATCH FAR SOUTHWEST MO THROUGH TODAY. KS...FLOOD WATCH THROUGH TODAY. WFO SGF
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 600 AM CDT FRI JUL 9 2004 KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-091800- BARRY-BARTON-BENTON-BOURBON-CAMDEN-CEDAR-CHEROKEE-CHRISTIAN-CRAWFORD- DADE-DALLAS-DENT-DOUGLAS-GREENE-HICKORY-HOWELL-JASPER-LACLEDE- LAWRENCE-MARIES-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. 600 AM CDT FRI JUL 9 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE MISSOURI OZARKS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED: THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. AREAS AFFECTED AND TIMING: SPREADING FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA THIS MORNING INTO MIDDAY. ADDITIONAL SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MAY FORM THIS AFTERNOON. DISCUSSION: A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS WILL TRACK SOUTHEASTWARD ACROSS THE REGION THIS MORNING. ALTHOUGH SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED, FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. THE GREATEST THREAT FOR HEAVY RAIN WILL BE ACROSS FAR SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND FAR SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. RAINFALL OF UP TO 2 INCHES ACROSS THIS REGION ON THURSDAY HAS LEFT THE GROUND NEARLY SATURATED, AND ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL WILL LEAD TO RAPID RUNOFF AND POSSIBLE FLOODING. AS CLOUDS THIN AFTER THE MORNING STORM COMPLEX MOVES OUT OF THE AREA, THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE AND SCATTERED LATE AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TODAY FOR AREAS GENERALLY WEST OF A FORT SCOTT TO LAMAR TO POWELL LINE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE AGAIN BOTH SATURDAY AND SUNDAY AFTERNOONS. THE GREATEST THREATS WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1011 AM CDT FRI JUL 09 2004
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1001 AM FLOOD 1 S WHITAKERVILLE 38.21N 93.37W
07/09/2004 BENTON MO DEPT OF HIGHWAYS
8 INCHES OF WATER OVER HWY 83.
GFPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1053 AM CDT FRI JUL 09 2004
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1040 AM FLASH FLOOD NEOSHO 36.87N 94.37W
07/09/2004 NEWTON MO LAW ENFORCEMENT
WATER RESCUE ON MCCORD ST. EAST OF NEOSHO BLVD. FOUR
ROADS CURRENTLY BEING CLOSED.
ALThe Springfield radar (KSGF), 70 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:08 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flash flooding occurred over a section of B Highway near the community of Purdy.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Missouri in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Missouri, July 2004
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5413702.