A few days of heavy rainfall led to flash flooding over the eastern Missouri Ozarks.
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The episode as NWS SGF wrote it up.
A few days of heavy rainfall led to flash flooding over the eastern 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 Jun 1, 11:24 AM CST, 2 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Springfield MO 1224 PM CDT WED JUN 1 2016 ...AVIATION UPDATE... .SYNOPSIS... Issued at 230 AM CDT Wed Jun 1 2016 Convection which brought some localized flooding has mostly ended over the area. Additional convection has fired over central Missouri early this morning. Main upper low was located over northern MN, but large area of cyclonic flow was occurring into southern MO with pieces of embedded shortwave energy within this cyclonic flow. Additionally, a weak cold front was located just to the west of the area. Due to weak shear and very slow storm motions, the convection developing will be slow to move and may cause some localized flooding. Main focus will be with shower/thunderstorm chances through the early part of the weekend and then with temperatures for the remainder of the forecast. && .SHORT TERM...(Today and tonight) Issued at 230 AM CDT Wed Jun 1 2016 Convection over the northeast portion of the CWA is expected to slowly lift northeast through the remainder of the overnight hours and may produce some heavy rain and cloud to ground lightning. The weak cold front will gradually shift across the area today and will be the focus for shower/thunderstorm redevelopment by late this morning into the afternoon, as instability increases. The convection will likely linger through the evening hours similar to this past evening before diminishing during the overnight. Weak flow aloft will keep slow storm motions in play with convection today/tonight, so thunderstorms with heavy rain may pose additional localized flooding risks. At this time, we are not expecting any severe storms as wind shear profiles look rather weak. .LONG TERM...(Thursday through Tuesday) Issued at 230 AM CDT Wed Jun 1 2016 A weak shear zone will remain over southern Missouri on Thursday into Friday which will keep widely scattered to scattered thunderstorms in the forecast for mainly the southern portions of the CWA. Eventually, a stronger northern stream shortwave will dive southeast across the Great Lakes into the Ohio valley, bringing a surface cold front and cooler/drier conditions into the area by Saturday night. The drier conditions will linger through the middle part of next week. There will be a warming trend by the middle of next week as upper level ridging begins to build back into the area. && .AVIATION...(For the 18Z TAFS through 18Z Thursday afternoon) Pilots flying in and out of the southwest Missouri airports will need to monitor radar for showers and thunderstorms this afternoon and early this evening. If one of these cells directly affects an airfield, then flight conditions will likely be reduced. Otherwise mostly VFR conditions are expected tonight and tomorrow morning. Safe Travels. && .SGF Watches/Warnings/Advisories... MO...NONE. KS...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...Lindenberg SHORT TERM...Lindenberg LONG TERM...Lindenberg AVIATION...Cramer
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1101 AM CDT WED JUN 1 2016 KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-021615- 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- 1101 AM CDT WED JUN 1 2016 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. DISCUSSION... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE BEGINNING TO DEVELOP ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI LATE THIS MORNING. SCATTERED STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND EXPAND BACK TO THE WEST THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE BEST COVERAGE IN STORMS WILL GENERALLY BE ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE INTERSTATE 44 CORRIDOR. OCCASIONAL CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES CAN BE EXPECTED FROM ANY STORM. THESE STORMS WILL ALSO BE SLOW MOVING...WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND LOCALIZED FLOODING POSSIBLE WHERE HEAVY RAIN SITS ACROSS THE SAME LOCATION FOR A EXTENDED LENGTH OF TIME. SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE ON THURSDAY...MAINLY ACROSS SOUTHERN MISSOURI SOUTH OF U.S. HIGHWAY 60. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY ACROSS THE WHOLE AREA. NO SEVERE STORMS ARE EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT. && MORE DETAILED INFORMATION CAN BE ACCESSED AT: HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SGF/SITREP(ALL LOWERCASE) THIS PRODUCT IN GRAPHICAL FORMAT...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER... HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION...AT HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SGF(ALL LOWERCASE) WISE
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 150 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:35 UTC.
10 flash flood, 2 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
State Route JJ along the South Fork of the Spring River was flooded and impassable.
There was a report of 1.60 inches of rainfall in about 20 minutes which caused flash flooding across the city of Neosho. Officials had to close several city streets due to flooding.
There were several water rescues around the Neosho area and one person nearly drowned.
Officials had to rescue a person from a near drowning due to flash flooding near Freeman Street and Joplin in Neosho.
Secondary roads in the southern portion of Howell County were flooded from excessive rainfall.
Route K was impassable due to flooding near Pottersville.
Highway 142 near the Bennetts River was flooded and impassable.
The low water crossing near the North Fork Creek and Highway EE was flooded and impassable.
Five individuals were rescued from a home on Austin Avenue which had water waist deep in the residence. Two vehicles were washed away. Numerous roads were impassable across the county.
Numerous roads were impassable due to flooding in the city of Branson.
MODOT reported that Route FF was impassable due to flooding east of Ava.
State Highway EE was impassable due to flooding along the North Fork River.
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