A line of thunderstorms developed over southwest Missouri, which trained over Barry, Newton, and Taney counties. Isolated areas of flash flooding occurred from this episode of excessive rainfall.
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A line of thunderstorms developed over southwest Missouri, which trained over Barry, Newton, and Taney counties. Isolated areas of flash flooding occurred from this episode of excessive rainfall.
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 Aug 7, 11:07 AM CST, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1207 PM CDT THU AUG 7 2008 ...UPDATE TO AVIATION... .DISCUSSION... RAIN/FLOOD CHANCES TODAY MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGE...WITH MEDIUM RANGE POPS ALSO A CONCERN. WITH AN EYE ON NW KS TSRA...HAVE OPTED TO DROP FFA AS LOW LEVEL JET SHOWING NO SIGNS OF STRENGTHENING PLUS HILLSBORO KS PROFILE TRYING TO VEER AROUND. WITH THIS SAID...HAVE MAINTAINED POP CHANCES INTO THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST THIRD OF THE CWA BEFORE SURFACE HIGH NUDGES FRONT AND H8 THETA E GRADIENT SOUTHWEST OUT OF CWA. SUBSEQUENT DRYING TO BRING PRECIP WATER DOWN TO 1.25 INCHES OVER EVEN FAR SOUTHWEST MISSOURI BY 00Z. SHORT RANGE MODELS FAIRLY CONSISTENT FOR LATE IN THE WORKWEEK...THOUGH MODELS HANDLING MEAN EAST COAST TROF AND ENSUING SHORT WAVES LENDS TO POOR CONFIDENCE FOR SUNDAY THROUGH NEXT WEEK. AS SURFACE HIGH SHIFTS INTO OH VALLEY...FLOW WILL RETURN TO THE SOUTH WHICH SHOULD PROVIDE ENOUGH UPGLIDE TO WARRANT CHANCE POPS ON SUNDAY. MADE FEW CHANGES BEYOND THAT. && .AVIATION... FOR THE 18Z TAFS...CONVECTION HAS REDEVELOPED OVER THE SOUTHWESTERN CORNER OF THE CWA IN AN AREA OF BETTER MOISTURE CONVERGENCE AND HIGHER INSTABILITY. DRIER AIR CONTINUES TO FILTER INTO THE CWA FROM THE NORTHEAST AND CONTINUES TO PUSH THIS MOISTURE AXIS TO THE SOUTH SO CONVECTION WILL LIKELY ONLY LINGER OVER THE SOUTHEWEST CWA FOR ANOTHER COUPLE TO FEW HOURS. MAIN AREA OF PRECIPITATION HAS SHIFTED SOUTH OF THE JLN AREA AND HAS REMAINED SOUTH OF THE SGF TODAY. WILL KEEP IN A TEMPO GROUP FOR SHOWERS WITH VCTS WORDING IN FOR JLN FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS AT THE ONSET OF THE 18Z TAFS WITH PREDOMINANT P6SM AND TEMPO MVFR VISIBILITIES. OTHERWISE...CIGS AT JLN FOR A FEW HOURS THIS AFTERNOON WILL BE FROM AROUND 2500 TO 3500 FEET BEFORE THIS AREA OF CONVECTION SLIDES MORE TO THE SOUTH. HAVE NOT INCLUDED FOG IN THE TERMINALS FOR OVERNIGHT. WILL NEED TO MONITOR...ALTHOUGH WE ARE SEEING DRIER AIR WORKING SOUTHWESTWARD INTO THE AREA. MAY NEED TO HAVE MVFR VISIBILITIES ADDED FOR JLN OVERNIGHT AS THEY HAD THE MOST RAINFALL AND WILL HAVE THE HIGHER DEWPOINTS OVERNIGHT. LINDENBERG && .SGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MO...NONE. KS...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 106 PM CDT THU AUG 7 2008 KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-081815- 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- 106 PM CDT THU AUG 7 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE MISSOURI OZARKS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED: NON SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY DOWNPOURS LEADING TO FLASH FLOODING...40 MPH WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. AREAS AFFECTED AND TIMING: ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM COLUMBUS KANSAS TO WEST BRANSON MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. DISCUSSION: VERY SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING THROUGH SOUTHWEST MISSOURI AT 5-10 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL AND ARE TRAINING OVER NEWTON...BARRY AND STONE COUNTIES. THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS...COMBINED WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING OVER A FAIRLY LARGE PORTION OF THIS AREA. MODEST INSTABILITY AND WEAK WINDS IN THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE WILL PRECLUDE THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE STORMS. THE LINE OF STORMS WILL GRADUALLY PUSH SOUTH INTO ARKANSAS BY EARLY EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL RETURN LATE SATURDAY INTO MONDAY AS WINDS SHIFT BACK TO THE SOUTH AND INSTABILITY RETURNS TO THE REGION. .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) CLAYCOMB
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
4 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
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After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Missouri in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in Missouri, August 2008
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: 115805, 115806, 115808, 115809.