Excessive rainfall over Barton County caused one area of flash flooding.
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Excessive rainfall over Barton County caused one area of flash flooding.
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 20, 2:10 PM CST, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 310 PM CDT FRI JUL 20 2007 ...UPDATED AVIATION... .DISCUSSION... MAIN FOCUS DURING THE SHORT TERM WILL BE WITH POPS TONIGHT INTO SATURDAY ACROSS THE WESTERN CWA. SLOW MOVING BACK DOOR COLD FRONT WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTHWEST MISSOURI AROUND THE JLN VICINITY EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. AT LEAST THE WIND SHIFT BOUNDARY IS LOCATED THERE. TRUE DRIER AIR WAS LOCATED FURTHER EAST...MAINLY ACROSS THE EASTERN TIER OF COUNTIES IN THE CWA. AS A RESULT...INSTABILITY AXIS HAS SET UP OVER THE WESTERN CWA WITH SCATTERED CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION DEVELOPING. WOULD EXPECT THE PRECIPITATION CHANCES TO CONTINUE IN WESTERN 1/4 OF THE CWA THIS EVENING WITH DIMINISHING ECHOES AS INSTABILITY DECREASES. DRIER AIR SHOULD CONTINUE TO SHIFT SOUTHWESTWARD INTO THE AREA ON SATURDAY WITH HIGHER INSTABILITY AXIS ALONG THE WESTERN EDGE OF THE CWA. COULD SEE ISOLATED OR WIDELY SCATTERED CONVECTION...MAINLY DURING THE AFTERNOON WITH HIGHER INSTABILITY ALONG THIS BOUNDARY ON SATURDAY. REMAINDER OF CWA SHOULD REMAIN DRY. MOS NUMBERS LOOK A BIT LOW (ESPECIALLY THE MET) AND HAVE GONE SLIGHTLY HIGHER THAN MAV NUMBERS FOR HIGHS. UPPER LEVEL RIDGE OVER THE ROCKIES AND HIGH PLAINS WILL BUILD EASTWARD INTO THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY AND WESTERN GREAT LAKES REGION AND WILL CAUSE A CLOSED UPPER LOW TO CUT OFF FROM THE MAIN FLOW OVER THE MID ATLANTIC STATES. THIS LOW IS THEN PROGGED TO MEANDER WESTWARD INTO THE OHIO VALLEY BY EARLY NEXT WEEK AND INTO MISSOURI BY THE END OF THE FORECAST PERIOD. HAVE ADDED LOW POPS FOR THURSDAY INTO FRIDAY TO ACCOUNT FOR THIS FEATURE. LINDENBERG && .AVIATION... FOR 1800 UTC THE KSGF/KJLN TAFS...A WEAK BACKDOOR FRONT HAS PUSHED SOUTHWEST INTO THE WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST MO. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED IN THE UNSTABLE AIR MASS AHEAD OF THE FRONT...AND NOW HAVE BEEN DEVELOPING OR REDEVELOPING ALONG RESULTANT OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES. MOST OF THE STORMS ARE NOW DEVELOPING SOUTH OF KSGF...BUT WILL REMAIN IN THE KJLN AREA THIS AFTERNOON. CUMULUS FIELD HAS PRODUCED MVFR/LOW END VFR CEILINGS...AND WRF SOUNDING KEEPS A FAIR AMOUNT OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE OVER THE REGION TONIGHT. FOR NOW HAVE KEPT A DIURNAL TREND FOR THE CEILINGS...BUT LINGERED CLOUDS INTO THE EVENING HOURS SOMEWHAT. DSA && .SGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MO...NONE. KS...NONE. && WFO SGF
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1259 PM CDT FRI JUL 20 2007 KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-211800- 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- 1259 PM CDT FRI JUL 20 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE MISSOURI OZARKS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED: THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING... VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WITH SOME ISOLATED FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS POSSIBLE...ALONG WITH WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH. AREAS AFFECTED AND TIMING: LOCATIONS SOUTH AND EAST OF A COLE CAMP TO EMINENCE LINE THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. DISCUSSION: A COLD FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH SOUTHWEST THROUGH THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE COLD FRONT WILL INTERACT WITH A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR MASS IN PLACE OVER THE MISSOURI OZARKS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS TO PRODUCE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLE ISOLATED FLOODING IN LOW LYING AREAS. IN ADDITION...SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. AN UPPER LEVEL LOW IS EXPECTED TO GET CUT OFF FROM THE MAIN UPPER LEVEL FLOW ACROSS THE EASTERN UNITED STATES AND WILL BEGIN TO DRIFT WESTWARD INTO THE OHIO VALLEY BY LATE NEXT WEEK. AN INCREASE IN GULF MOISTURE WILL COMMENCE BY THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER THE MISSOURI OZARKS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS BY THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT. && 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
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 83 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:28 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Excessive rainfall caused a section of Highway 126 to become flooded and impassable to motorists.
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