Heavy rainfall from thunderstorms associated with a slow moving cold front caused flooding across the Missouri Ozarks.
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The episode as NWS SGF wrote it up.
Heavy rainfall from thunderstorms associated with a slow moving cold front caused flooding across the Missouri Ozarks.
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 26, 11:42 AM CST, 53 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1242 PM CDT FRI APR 26 2013 .UPDATE... ISSUED AT 1021 AM CDT FRI APR 26 2013 WE MADE SOME UPDATES TO THE SHORT TERM FORECAST TO ACCOUNT FOR THE LATEST RADAR TRENDS. GENERALLY SPEAKING...WE INCREASED POPS INTO EARLY THIS EVENING. WE ALSO INCREASED THE COVERAGE OF THUNDER...ESPECIALLY ACROSS SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI AS A SLUG OF MUCAPES GREATER THAN 500 J/KG SHOULD PERSIST FOR MUCH OF TODAY. FINALLY...WE TWEAKED EXPECTED HIGH TEMPERATURES DOWN A DEGREE OR TWO AS WARMING WILL BE HARD TO COME BY WITH THE CLOUDS AND RAIN. && .SHORT TERM...(TODAY THROUGH SATURDAY) ISSUED AT 252 AM CDT FRI APR 26 2013 REGIONAL RADARS ARE SHOWING AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND EMBEDDED ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER EASTERN KANSAS AND NORTHERN OKLAHOMA THIS MORNING. THIS AREA WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE AND EXPAND AS IT MOVES INTO MISSOURI TODAY. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWING THE UPPER LEVEL TROUGH OVER THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES THIS MORNING AND SLOWLY MOVING TO THE EAST. WITH THE CLOUD COVER AND WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND STORMS IN THE AREA TODAY...TEMPERATURES WILL NOT RESPOND MUCH TODAY AND HOLD IN THE UPPER 50S. RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO BE LIKELY TONIGHT AS THE MAIN ENERGY MOVES OUT ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS REGION. RAINFALL FOR THIS EVENT WILL AVERAGE BETWEEN HALF AN INCH TO UP TO AN INCH POSSIBLE AT SOME LOCATIONS. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED WITH THIS SYSTEM. THE TROUGH AXIS MOVES THROUGH EARLY ON SATURDAY WITH RAIN ENDING FROM WEST TO EAST DURING THE DAY. TEMPERATURES WILL AGAIN BE ON THE COOL SIDE AROUND 60 DEGREES FOR HIGHS. .LONG TERM...(SUNDAY THROUGH THURSDAY) ISSUED AT 252 AM CDT FRI APR 26 2013 SUNDAY LOOKS MUCH NICER WITH RIDGING TAKING PLACE AND MILDER TEMPERATURES. HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL BE AROUND NORMAL SEASONABLE LEVELS OR AROUND 70 DEGREES WITH SUNSHINE. THE EARLY PART OF NEXT WEEKS LOOKS LIKE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TYPE WEATHER WITH HIGHS IN THE MIDDLE TO AROUND 80 DEGREE MARK AND MORE SUNSHINE. ANOTHER TROUGH WILL DEVELOP AND DIG DOWN ACROSS THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL PLAINS REGION BY THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. THERE IS STILL QUITE A SPREAD OF UNCERTAINTY AMONG THE MODELS WITH THE TIMING AND PROGRESSION OF THE TROUGH. HAVE LEANED A MORE ON THE ECMWF SOLUTIONS WITH THE SLOWER TIMING WITH THE TROUGH AND FRONT MOVING THROUGH LATE WEDNESDAY INTO EARLY THURSDAY. TEMPERATURES WILL BE MUCH COOLER AGAIN BEHIND THE FRONT FOR THE END OF NEXT WEEK. && .AVIATION...(FOR THE 18Z TAFS THROUGH 18Z SATURDAY AFTERNOON) ISSUED AT 1234 PM CDT FRI APR 26 2013 RAIN AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH EARLY SATURDAY MORNING. VISIBILITIES IN THE MVFR CATEGORY CAN BE EXPECTED WITH ANY THUNDERSTORMS. CEILINGS WILL GRADUALLY LOWER FROM VFR TO MVFR BY EARLY THIS EVENING. IFR IS THEN EXPECTED STARTING LATER TONIGHT...BUT EXACT TIMING REMAINS IN QUESTION. MOST WEATHER MODELS BRING THE IFR IN AS EARLY AS THIS EVENING...HOWEVER OBSERVATIONS UPSTREAM ARE INDICATING NO IFR. THUS...WE HAVE GONE WITH A SLOWER IFR ONSET AND HELD IT OFF UNTIL LATER TONIGHT. THE OTHER AVIATION IMPACT TONIGHT WILL BE LOW LEVEL WIND SHEAR...PRIMARILY AT KSGF AND KBBG. HEADING INTO SATURDAY MORNING...THE IFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO PERSIST. && .SGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MO...NONE. KS...NONE. && UPDATE...SCHAUMANN SHORT TERM...GRIFFIN LONG TERM...GRIFFIN AVIATION...SCHAUMANN
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1142 AM CDT FRI APR 26 2013 KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-271645- 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- 1142 AM CDT FRI APR 26 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE MISSOURI OZARKS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED... LIMITED HAIL RISK. LIMITED FLOODING RISK. LIMITED LIGHTNING RISK. DISCUSSION... RAIN SHOWERS WITH EMBEDDED ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL PERSIST THROUGH TONIGHT. THE MAIN IMPACT FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE SCATTERED LIGHTNING STRIKES. A FEW STORMS MAY ALSO CONTAIN HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES...MAINLY ACROSS SOUTHERN MISSOURI AND EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF ONE INCH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR A FEW THUNDERSTORMS AROUND THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED. .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) SCHAUMANN
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
9 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Approximately six inches of water was over the Greenwood Road low water crossing at the Pomme De Terre headwaters.
MODOT reported that Highway EE was closed at the North Fork River.
MODOT reported that Highway AB at Wolf Creek was flooded.
MODOT reported that Route Z was flooded at Elk Creek.
Highway CC was closed due to flooding.
Highway 126 was closed due to flooding.
Highway 142 was closed due to flooding.
Highway E was closed due to flooding.
Highway BB was closed due to flooding.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Missouri in 2013Every state in 2013This day in weather historyWarnings in Missouri, April 2013
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: 438578, 438579, 438580, 438581, 438583, 438582, 438584, 438586, 438585.