Heavy rainfall led to one isolated flooding report.
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Heavy rainfall led to one isolated flooding report.
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 Nov 21, 11:57 AM CST, 26 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1157 AM CST Thu Nov 21 2013 .SHORT TERM...(Today through Saturday Night) Issued at 326 AM CST THU NOV 21 2013 Very complex forecast over the next 36 hours. Inverted trough at the surface is firming up over the region at this hour. Two distinct bands of showers and isolated embedded thunderstorms have developed over the past few hours. The first clipping portions of extreme southeastern Kansas and west central Missouri, the other is across far southern Missouri. Main shortwave energy is located over the panhandles of Oklahoma and Texas, and several vort lobes will emanate from this feature through the day. With the region located in the left exit region of an upper level jet, should continue to see rain expand across the entire area as the morning progresses with periods of rain lasting into tonight. Short range models continue to produce a 100-300 J/kg of most unstable CAPE. With isolated thunder already ongoing, will continue to mention this through this evening. A few changes have been made to the forecast. The first change was to cut expected rainfall amounts. Guidance has taken a good half inch off of previously expected amounts, so a widespread 0.50" to 1.50" is expected. Mesoscale bands of heavier rainfall remain possible, so there will be locally higher amounts. The second change to the forecast is a bit more considerable. Short range models have a sped up the cold front passage and there are concerns that at or just below freezing air could filter into western portions of the outlook area as quickly as late tonight. The cold front currently extends from St. Cloud, MN to Omaha, NE to Dodge City, KS. Short range models have a pretty good handle on the location and speed of the front thus far when compared to observations. This front should enter the far northwest portions of the forecast area by the mid afternoon hours, entering areas along and northwest of the Ozark Plateau during the early evening hours and exiting south central Missouri just after midnight tonight. This is rather troubling as the surface freezing line is a mere 90 or so miles behind the cold front. At this time, it appears that the freezing line should enter the far northwest portion of the outlook area around 3 AM tonight, spreading into areas roughly along and northwest of a line from Joplin to Nevada and Appleton City by daybreak Friday. The biggest question at this point is whether or not precipitation will have come to an end. Recent NAM solutions have been discounted by WPC as this model has a long history of hanging precip too far behind cold fronts in the cold season. That said, the global models do indicate some light precip is possible across the area behind the cold front. Have included a mention of light freezing rain late tonight through Friday morning for areas (roughly) along and northwest of a line from Joplin to Nevada and Appleton City. Light icing is possible, but not a lock at this point given precip on the order of hundredths of an inch. All interests along and northwest of the Ozark Plateau are strongly encouraged to keep a very close eye on updated forecasts today. Light rain/drizzle will continue Friday afternoon before ending by Friday evening. High temperatures will be first thing Friday morning with areas southeast of the plateau falling through the day and the rest of the area holding steady/warming just a few degrees. From Friday night through Saturday night, drier air will continue to spread over the region as a strong surface high pressure settles over the Midwest. Cold air advection will result in well below average temperatures. .LONG TERM...(Sunday through Wednesday) Issued at 326 AM CST THU NOV 21 2013 Sunday will start off very cold in the upper teens to around twenty degrees with the center of the surface high pressure just north of the Missouri Ozarks. The cut off low over the southwestern U.S. will begin to open up and move out into the southern Plains on Sunday. Clouds will increase during the afternoon and precip will develop to our southwest by the evening hours. The GEM and ECMWF have light precip spreading over the area during Sunday night. The GFS is the drier solution. A lot will depend on how much precip can reach the ground after fighting off some dry air initially. The forecast soundings suggest the precip to start off as light snow changing to a mix of sleet by Monday morning. Temperatures will be below freezing Sunday night/Monday morning in the upper 20s. Total QPF will be on the order of around a tenth of an inch possible with just a light dusting to up to half an inch of light snow possible. This appears to be a minor event but again it doesn't take much to cause a few slick spots on roadways and will continue to monitor model trends. The upper level low will move along the Gulf Coast region through early next week. Below average temperatures will remain through the middle of next week. && .AVIATION...(For the 18Z TAFS through 18Z Friday Afternoon) Issued at 1145 AM CST THU NOV 21 2013 For the KSGF/KJLN/KBBG tafs: Areas of showers continue to move northeast ahead of a cold front that lies just northwest of the region. This front is expected to move through the taf sites over the next 6-9 hours. Ahead of the front, we will continue to see variable flight conditions, mainly low end vfr and mvfr ceilings/visibility. The Branson airport has been more consistent with lower ceilings so will continue that as a near term trend. After the front passes, we expect a period of more prolonged ifr ceilings with the initially shallow cold air. There may be some small improvement in the ceilings at KJLN late in the taf period, but thinking that any clearing and improvement in ceilings will be slow behind the front. Periods of drizzle/light rain will also occur behind the front. Temperatures falling close to freezing may lead to some light freezing drizzle late in the taf period at Joplin/KJLN but am not confident enough given borderline temperatures to add to the taf right now. && .SGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MO...NONE. KS...NONE. && SHORT TERM...Gagan LONG TERM...Griffin AVIATION...DSA
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 817 AM CST THU NOV 21 2013 KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-221130- 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- 817 AM CST THU NOV 21 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE MISSOURI OZARKS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED... LIMITED FLOODING RISK. LIMITED LIGHTNING RISK. LIMITED ICE ACCUMULATION RISK. DISCUSSION... PERIODS OF RAIN AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR ACROSS THE AREA TODAY. OCCASIONAL CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THUNDERSTORMS. THERE IS A LIMITED RISK FOR FLOODING ACROSS FAR SOUTHERN MISSOURI...WHERE UP TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE. A MUCH COLDER AIRMASS WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION TONIGHT. THERE IS A RISK FOR BELOW FREEZING TEMPERATURES LATE TONIGHT ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS AND PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...GENERALLY ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM NEVADA MISSOURI TO COLUMBUS KANSAS. IF LIGHT SHOWERS LINGER ACROSS THIS AREA LATE TONIGHT INTO FRIDAY MORNING...A THIN GLAZE OF ICE WILL BE POSSIBLE ON ELEVATED SURFACES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. LIGHT SNOW OR SLEET WILL BE POSSIBLE SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY MORNING. AT THIS TIME...ACCUMULATIONS ARE ONLY EXPECTED TO RANGE FROM A DUSTING TO LESS THAN ONE HALF OF AN INCH. ANY ACCUMULATIONS WOULD QUICKLY MELT DURING THE DAY MONDAY AS TEMPERATURES WARM INTO THE UPPER 30S AND LOWER 40S. .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) TERRY
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The North Main Street Bridge was closed due to high water and debris in the water.
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