Flash Flood in Missouri, November 1, 2004

Name: Flash Flood in Missouri, November 1, 2004
Start: 2004-11-01T03:30
End: 2004-11-01T07:00
Location: Missouri

November 1, 2004 · NWS SGF · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

What forecasters said that day

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 Oct 31, 8:39 PM CST, 6 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 31, 8:39 PM CST, 6 hours 51 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
839 PM CST SUN OCT 31 2004

.MESOSCALE DISCUSSION...

PRECIPITATION SPREADING NORTH OUT OF ARKANSAS CONTINUES TO INTENSIFY
SLOWLY AND IN PARTICULAR AM CONCERNED WITH A STORM ON THE LEADING
EDGE OVER EASTERN LAWRENCE COUNTY. THIS STORM CONTINUES TO EXHIBIT
SUPERCELL CHARACTERISTICS AND HAS MAINTAINED AN ORGANIZED STRUCTURE
FOR QUITE SOME TIME. VERTICAL CROSS SECTIONS SHOW THAT THIS STORM IS
TILTED WELL DOWNSTREAM...WHICH FITS WELL WITH STRONG VEERING
HODOGRAPHS EVIDENT ON 00Z KSGF SOUNDING AND CONWAY PROFILER.
INSTIBILITY REMAINS THE MISSING LINK...BUT APPARENTLY THIS CELL HAS
FOUND A LOCAL MAXIMA. STORM TOP REMAINS AROUND 25KFT...BUT WILL
CONTINUE TO MONITOR FOR A REFLECTIVITY/CG LIGHTNING SPIKE THAT MAY
SUGGEST SOME MARGINALLY SEVERE HAIL.

&&

.SGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
MO...FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON FOR ALL MO
COUNTIES. KS...NONE.

BOOKBINDER

Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 31, 9:55 PM CST, 5 hours 35 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
955 PM CST SUN OCT 31 2004

KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-011200-
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.
955 PM CST SUN OCT 31 2004

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE MISSOURI OZARKS AND EXTREME
SOUTHEAST KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

  WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED:

  THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL AND LOCALIZED FLOODING.

  AREAS AFFECTED AND TIMING:

  MUCH OF EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND SOUTHERN MISSOURI THROUGH
  TONIGHT.

  DISCUSSION:

  A WARM FRONT WILL MOVE NORTHWARD INTO THE MISSOURI OZARKS REGION
  TONIGHT. AMPLE MOISTURE FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO WILL INTERACT WITH
  THE FRONT TO CONTINUE PRODUCING WIDESPREAD SHOWERS WITH EMBEDDED
  THUNDERSTORMS. OCCASIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL IS EXPECTED AND FLOODING
  WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE NIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

  RAIN AND A FEW EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MONDAY
  NIGHT. ALTHOUGH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE CLOUD TO GROUND
  LIGHTNING...THE PRIMARY HAZARD WILL BE FLOODING DUE TO SATURATED
  SOILS FROM PREVIOUS RAINFALL.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

  SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT. HOWEVER...
  SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT THEIR RAINFALL TOTALS.

TERRY

In the hours before

Local storm report, Nov 1, 3:07 AM CST, 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
0307 AM CST MON NOV 01 2004

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

0208 AM     FLASH FLOOD      PINEVILLE               36.60N 94.38W
11/01/2004                   MCDONALD           MO   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            LOW WATER CROSSING AND STREETS FLOODED IN THE PINEVILLE
            AREA. REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT.

0300 AM     FLASH FLOOD      (UMN)MONETT             36.88N 93.90W
11/01/2004                   BARRY              MO   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS IN AND
            AROUND MONETT. REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT.

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 102 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 09:29 UTC.

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Event by event

1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Benton

When: November 1, 3:30 AM CST to 7:00 AM CST
Where: Benton County, Warsaw
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 38.295, -93.288 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Several roads, highways, and low water crossings countywide were flooded from heavy rain showers. Locations that were impacted the most included, a section of Highway 65 one and a half miles north of Warsaw, a section of Highway 65 near the intersection with Highway 52, rural areas west of Edwards, a section of Whitman Road, a section of Highway F at Five Bridges, Fordney Road east of Lincoln, a section of Coffe Road, and a section of Centerline Road.

What these are

Flash Flood: Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Missouri in 2004 Every state in 2004 This day in weather history Warnings in Missouri, November 2004

Sources

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: 5427392.