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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Kansas City, MO

July 14, 1986Boone County, Howard County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 14, 1986, 3:29 PM CDT for Boone County, Howard County, Missouri. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 14, 1986, 3:29 PM CDT (20:29 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 1986, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Boone County, MO, 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

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 266 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1351 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -61 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 995 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 2 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 153 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCOU 142029
FFWCOU
MOC019-089-150000-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO
329 PM CDT MON JUL 14 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF

CENTRAL MISSOURI...NORTHERN BOONE AND HOWARD

AT 323 PM A BAND OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXTREMELY HEAVY
RAIN EXTENDED FROM JUST NORTH OF COLUMBIA TO FAYETTE TO 10 MILES
EAST OF MARSHALL. 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN WAS REPORTED IN FAYETTE IN
45 MINUTES FROM ONE OF THESE STORMS AND STREETS WERE FLOODING AND
DITCHES FULL. THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN ARE EXPECTED TO
CONTINUE OVER HOWARD COUNTY AND THE NORTHERN HALF OF BOONE COUNTY
INCLUDING PARTS OF COLUMBIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS THE
STORMS MOVE EAST SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 20 MILES AN HOUR OVER THE SAME
GROUND. THIS AREA HAS RECEIVED HEAVY RAIN OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS.

THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE CITY OF COLUMBIA.

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.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK
THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

 HAGEMEYER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 14, 2:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Boone, Howard	43 min
Jul 14, 3:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Boone, Howard	59 min
Jul 14, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Callaway	59 min
Jul 14, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Boone	51 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 1986 Every flash flood warning in 1986

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.