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 Apr 29, 2:10 AM CST, 35 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 310 AM CDT SAT APR 29 2006 .DISCUSSION... WIDESPREAD SHOWERS CONTINUED OVER THE FORECAST AREA WITH A FEW EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS OVER OUR SOUTHWEST COUNTIES EARLY THIS MORNING. LATEST REGIONAL RADARS SHOW BACK EDGE OF PRECIPITATION WAS JUST ABOUT TO MOVE INTO OUR SOUTHEAST KANSAS COUNTIES. WAS CONTEMPLATING ISSUING A FLOOD WATCH FOR TODAY...BUT WITH ENOUGH MID LEVEL DRYING TO STOP RAINFALL SPREADING INTO THE THE AREA FROM THE WEST...OPTED NOT TO ISSUE. EXPECT TO CONTINUE SEEING SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING OVER OUR SOUTHWEST COUNTIES THIS MORNING WITH HEAVIER STORMS OVER MCDONALD/NEWTON COUNTIES...BUT OVERALL RAINFALL RATES HAVE AVERAGED LESS THAN A QUARTER INCH PER HOUR...AND EXPECT THIS TREND TO CONTINUE. STILL LOOKS LIKE AN OUTSIDE CHANCE FOR STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS LATER TODAY...ESPECIALLY OVER OUR EXTREME WESTERN COUNTIES WHERE THE BEST CHANCES FOR AFTERNOON HEATING WILL DEVELOP. UPPER LEVEL DYNAMICS WILL SUPPORT ORGANIZED STORMS. POTENTIAL CAPE ON FORECAST SOUNDINGS STILL LOOKS RATHER THIN...INDICATING LIMITED POTENTIAL FOR LARGE HAIL GROWTH. ALSO THE WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY FOR MOST INTENSE STORM DEVELOPMENT WILL LIKELY BE LIMITED TO MID/LATE AFTERNOON. MAIN SURFACE TROUGH IS EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT SHIFTING WINDS FROM SOUTHEAST TO SOUTHWEST. MAIN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH AXIS WILL REMAIN TO OUR WEST THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON AS UPPER LOW REMAINS NEARLY STATIONARY OVER IOWA THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT. FOR NOW PLAN TO LEAVE PRECIP CHANCES IN THE FORECAST THROUGH THE WEEKEND AND INTO MONDAY...WITH THE HIGHEST POPS OVER SOUTH CENTRAL/CENTRAL MO. UPPER LOW FINALLY LIFTS NORTHEAST INTO THE UPPER MIDWEST BY TUESDAY MORNING. OVERALL THE EXTENDED FORECAST IS CONSISTENT WITH DRY CONDITIONS TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY BEFORE ANOTHER SYSTEM MOVES THROUGH THE CENTRAL CONUS WEDNESDAY NIGHT/THURSDAY. PRECIPITATION MAY NEED TO BE LAGGED INTO FRIDAY BEFORE UPPER TROUGH AXIS CLEARS THE AREA FRIDAY NIGHT. TERRY && .AVIATION... FOR THE 0600 UTC TAFS...CIGS/VIS WILL FALL TO MVFR EARLY THIS MORNING AS STEADY RAIN CONTINUES. HEAVIER RAIN SHOULD END IN JLN BY AROUND SUNRISE AND A COUPLE HOURS AFTER THAT IN SGF AREA. ONCE THE STEADY RAIN ENDS LOOK FOR A CONTINUATION OF HEAVY MIST/DRIZZLE AND POSSIBLY SOME LIGHT RAIN INTO AT LEAST THE EARLY AFTERNOON. CIGS WILL LIKELY DROP TO IFR SHORTLY AFTER THE STEADY RAIN ENDS AND WHILE 06Z TAFS ADVERTISE SOME IMPROVEMENT TO MVFR CIGS THIS AFTERNOON...THAT MAY BE OPTIMISTIC WITH IFR CIGS POSSIBLY LINGERING THROUGH THE DAY. IZZI && .SGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MO...NONE. KS...NONE. WFO SGF
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 129 AM CDT SAT APR 29 2006 KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-291800- BOURBON-CRAWFORD-CHEROKEE-BENTON-MORGAN-MILLER-MARIES-VERNON- ST. CLAIR-HICKORY-CAMDEN-PULASKI-PHELPS-BARTON-CEDAR-POLK-DALLAS- LACLEDE-TEXAS-DENT-JASPER-DADE-GREENE-WEBSTER-WRIGHT-NEWTON- LAWRENCE-CHRISTIAN-DOUGLAS-HOWELL-SHANNON-MCDONALD-BARRY-STONE- TANEY-OZARK-OREGON- 129 AM CDT SAT APR 29 2006 ...LOCALIZED FLOODING POSSIBLE... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE MISSOURI OZARKS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...OVERNIGHT. WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED: LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND LOCALIZED FLOODING. AREAS AFFECTED AND TIMING: ACROSS ALL OF THE MISSOURI OZARKS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS TONIGHT. DISCUSSION: A STORM SYSTEM WAS STILL OUT ACROSS WEST TEXAS AT EARLY EVENING. RAINFALL WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER THE AREA OVERNIGHT WITH HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE. GENERAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES ARE LIKELY TONIGHT WITH HIGHER ISOLATED AMOUNTS POSSIBLE. LOCALIZED FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY IN LOW LYING AREAS THAT NORMALLY FLOOD DURING HEAVY RAIN EVENTS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. AS THE STORM SYSTEM SLOWLY PUSHES FURTHER EAST INTO THE PLAINS... THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE ON SATURDAY. IF SOME CLEARING CAN TAKE PLACE DURING THE DAY ON SATURDAY...THE ATMOSPHERE WILL FURTHER DESTABILIZE WITH A CHANCE OF SEVERE STORM DEVELOPMENT DURING THE AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH LATE IN THE WEEKEND INTO MONDAY WITH ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM CHANCES LATER IN THE UPCOMING WORK WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT...HOWEVER SPOTTERS SHOULD REPORT ANY OBSERVED FLOODING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. && THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE IN GRAPHICAL FORMAT...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION...AT HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/SGF(ALL LOWERCASE) LINDENBERG/IZZI
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
233 AM CDT SAT APR 29 2006
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0210 AM FLASH FLOOD REDFIELD 37.84N 94.88W
04/29/2006 BOURBON KS EMERGENCY MNGR
NUMEROUS LOW WATER CROSSINGS FLOODED ACROSS THE COUNTY.
OLD HIGHWAY 54 AND MAPLE ROAD CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER.
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IZZIThe Springfield radar (KSGF), 80 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 08:47 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
A section of Highway 86 near Newtonia was inundated with flash flooding from slow moving thunderstorms. A local fire department had to perform a water rescue in response to a vehicle that had been washed off the road from this swift moving water.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 5504782.