A slow moving storm system brought an extended period of heavy rainfall which produced flooding across portions of the Missouri Ozarks. Numerous road closures were reported as streams and creeks swelled and low water crossings and roads became impassable.
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A slow moving storm system brought an extended period of heavy rainfall which produced flooding across portions of the Missouri Ozarks. Numerous road closures were reported as streams and creeks swelled and low water crossings and roads became impassable.
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 Jan 23, 5:48 PM CST, 4 hours 12 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 548 PM CST SAT JAN 23 2010 ...UPDATE TO AVIATION... .DISCUSSION... RAIN IS SLOWLY SPREADING EAST ACROSS THE REGION TODAY. NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO THE FORECAST HAVE BEEN MADE THROUGH SUNDAY..WITH COLD FRONT OVER THE PLAINS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE CWFA LATE TONIGHT AND SUNDAY. WILL STILL NEED TO WATCH EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE CWFA AS INCREASING MOISTURE FETCH CONTINUES TO FEED INTO THE AREA AND DEEPER LIFT DEVELOPS IN DIFFLUENT FLOW ALOFT AS UPPER JET NOSES INTO THE MID MS VLY. RAIN TOTALS MAY BE ENHANCED BY WEAK CONVECTION AS WELL. LOW WATER CROSSING FLOODING A POSSIBILITY OVER THE EASTERN OZARKS. RAIN WILL LINGER SUNDAY MORNING AS COLD FRONT FINALLY MOVES THROUGH ...AND COULD CONCEIVABLY SEE SOME SNOWFLAKES AS COLDER 850MB ADVECTS SOUTHEAST INTO THE AREA. NO SERIOUS IMPACT IS EXPECTED SHOULD THIS OCCUR. A BRIEF PERIOD OF QUIET WEATHER IS EXPECTED MON/TUE AS THE TROUGH EXITS. A SPLIT UPPER LEVEL PATTERN CONTINUES TO BE ADVERTISED DURING THE MID AND LATE WEEK PERIOD. AN INTERESTING WINTER WEATHER SCENARIO IS CERTAINLY POSSIBLE DURING THE WED NIGHT-THU-FRI TIME FRAME AS A SOUTHERN STREAM SHORTWAVE...NOW OVER THE NORTHWEST PACIFIC...MOVES QUICKLY TO THE SW AZ/MEXICO BORDER BY 00Z THU...THEN OUT INTO THE PLAINS AND THROUGH THE LOWER/MID MS VLY THU NIGHT/EARLY FRI. FOR NOW...DECENT AGREEMENT EXISTS BETWEEN THE OPERATIONAL GFS AND ECMWF. THE GFS ENSEMBLE MEAN IS A LITTLE SLOWER THAN BOTH THE OPERATIONAL MODELS...AND NO DOUBT WE WILL STILL SEE FCST SHIFTS AND SPEED AND TRACK OF THIS SYSTEM BEFORE ITS ALL OVER. THERMAL PROFILES WOULD SUPPORT A RAIN OR A WINTRY MIX AS ISENTROPIC ASCENT COMMENCES LATE WED WED NIGHT...EVENTUALLY TRANSITIONING TO SNOW. POTENTIALLY...SOME DECENT ACCUMULATION IS POSSIBLE DEPENDING ON THE TRACK OF THE SYSTEM. HAVE CONTINUED TO PLAY UP A BIT IN THE HWO WITH A LOT OF CONDITIONAL WORDING. DSA && .AVIATION... AHEAD OF A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT...A SHIELD OF RAIN CONTINUES TO MOVE NORTHEASTWARD ACROSS ARKANSAS AND MISSOURI. BREAKS IN THE RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE ALL THREE SITES TO BOUNCE BACK AND FORTH ACROSS MVFR AND IFR FLIGHT CATEGORIES THROUGH THE NIGHT...WITH BBG EXPERIENCING THE LOWEST CLOUD COVER AND LIFR VIS AT TIMES. AS THE FRONT FINALLY PUSHES THROUGH MID SUNDAY MORNING...LOW CLOUDS WILL BEGIN TO CLEAR OUT AND BRING A RETURN TO VFR CONDITIONS. CCC && .SGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MO...NONE. KS...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 756 PM CST SAT JAN 23 2010 KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-250200- 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- 756 PM CST SAT JAN 23 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE MISSOURI OZARKS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. QUICK MOVING LOW PRESSURE MOVING THROUGH THE SOUTHERN PLAINS AND LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY SOME TIME BETWEEN WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY WILL BRING THE POTENTIAL OF A MIX OF LIGHT RAIN AND ACCUMULATING WINTER PRECIPITATION TO SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL MISSOURI. WHILE OVERALL CONFIDENCE IS STILL LOW CONCERNING THE TRACK AND TIMING OF THIS STORM...ANALYSIS OF FORECAST DATA DOES SUGGEST THAT WINTER PRECIPITATION WILL IMPACT THE REGION AT SOME POINT LATE IN THE WORK WEEK...MOST LIKELY THURSDAY AND/OR FRIDAY. ADDITIONAL FORECASTS AND HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOKS SHOULD BE MONITORED FOR FURTHER UPDATES. .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 national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
16 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
A low water crossing, on State Route EE, was flooded and impassable.
A low water crossing, on Highway 142, was flooded and impassable.
A low water crossing, on Route AB, was flooded and impassable.
A low water crossing, on Route C along Lindley Creek, was flooded and impassable.
A low water crossing, on Route P, was flooded and impassable.
A low water crossing, on Locust Road along Locust Creek, was flooded and impassable.
A low water crossing, on Route Z, was flooded and impassable.
A low water crossing, on Route Z, was flooded and impassable.
A low water crossing, on Route E, was flooded and impassable.
A low water crossing, on Route BB along the Big Piney River, was flooded and impassable.
A low water crossing, on County Road 406 along a branch of the Dry Fork River, was flooded and impassable.
A low water crossing, on Route Y along the Beaver Creek, was flooded and impassable.
A low water crossing, on State Highway 95, was flooded and impassable.
A low water crossing, on State Route U at Bryant Creek, was flooded and impassable.
A low water crossing, on State Route FF along Turkey Creek, was flooded and impassable.
A low water crossing, at the Kinser Bridge on the James River, was flooded and impassable.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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