Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1986
Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Oct 2, 1986, 6:42 PM CDT for Howard County, Missouri. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 2, 1986, 6:42 PM CDT (23:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 2, 1986, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Howard County, MO
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 255 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 631 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCOU 022342 RRA FFWCOU MOC053-089-159-195-030045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 642 PM CDT THU OCT 2 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF CENTRAL MISSOURI...COOPER...HOWARD...PETTIS AND SALINE AT 630 PM CDT..NUMEROUS HEAVY SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSHOWERS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING ACROSS PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI. THIS CONTINUOUS MOVEMENT OF HEAVY RAIN ACROSS GROUND AND STREAMS THAT ARE FULLY SATURATED FROM RAIN DURING THE PAST WEEK AND MORE RECENTLY THE PAST 24 HOURS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING IN ALL URBAN AND RURAL AREAS OF THESE COUNTIES. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY RISING WATER. STAY AWAY FROM FLOODING CREEKS.. STREAMS AND STORM DRAINS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO WALK OR DRIVE THROUGH FLOWING WATER ESPECIALLY ON SO CALLED LOW WATER BRIDGES COMMON IN RURAL ARfEAS OF MISSOURI. REPORT FLOODING TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LARM
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 2, 4:14 PM CDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 415 PM CDT THU OCT 2 1986 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MUCH OF NORTHWEST AND WESTCENTRAL MISSOURI AS WELL AS EASTERN KANSAS INCLUDING THE KANSAS CITY AND ST JOSEPH AREAS... FOLLOWING ALMOST TWO WEEKS OF RAIN...AT TIMES VERY HEAVY...YET ANOTHER MAJOR WEATHER SYSTEM IS ABOUT TO INVADE THE CENTRAL PLAINS. THIS LATEST WEATHER SYSTEM IS NOW MAKING ITS WAY NORTHEASTWARD FROM THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES. WITH THE GROUND ALREADY SATURATED AND MANY STREAMS AT OR ABOVE FLOOD STAGE...THE STAGE IS SET FOR A POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS SITUATION IN WESTERN MISSOURI TONIGHT AND EARLY ON FRIDAY MORNING. THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BEGIN TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTHERN KANSAS THIS EVENING AND MOVE NORTHEASTWARD INTO WESTERN MISSOURI. THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. WITH THE GROUND ALREADY WET...ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL PRODUCE RUNOFF WHICH WILL RESULT IN RAPID RISES OF STREAMS. SMALL STREAMS IN URBAN AREAS ARE MOST VULNERABLE TO HEAVY RAINS TONIGHT. RAINFALL AMOUNTS TO 2 TO 4 INCHES ARE CERTAINLY POSSIBLE IN THE WATCH AREAS TONIGHT AND FRIDAY MORNING. PERSONS LIVING IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS...OR NEAR STREAMS THAT ARE ALREADY FLOODING...SHOULD STAY INFORMED AND BE READY FOR QUICK ACTION IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR IF A WARNING IS ISSUED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2, 6:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper, Pettis, Saline | 4 hr |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.