Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 28, 1989, 11:25 PM CDT for Buchanan County, Missouri. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 28, 1989, 11:25 PM CDT (04:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 1989, 2:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Buchanan 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 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 4158 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1258 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.3
- Supercell composite
- 15.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMCI 290425
FFWMCI
MOC021-290730-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INT'L AIRPORT MO
1125 PM CDT MON AUG 28 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE NORTHWEST PART OF MISSOURI
BUCHANAN
AT (1120 PM CDT THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED TO
SOUTHWEST OF ST JOSEPH MISSOURI AND STRETCHED WELL BACK INTO
EASTERN KANSAS. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL
IN EXCESS OF TWO OR MORE INCHES. THERE WILL BE THUNDERSTORMS
MOVING OVER BUCHANNAN COUNTY WITH THE HEAVY RAINS UNTIL AT
LEAST 2 30 AM TUESDAY MORNING. THERE IS STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND
SMALL HAIL ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT.
MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO
CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.
NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.
TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.
THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY.
VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED IMMEDIATELY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
WW/LH/BP /CSWhat 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, Aug 28, 6:30 PM CDT, 4 hours 55 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 531 PM CDT MON AUG 28 1989 AT 530 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER EXTREME NORTHEAST JACKSON COUNTY...ABOUT 20 MILES EAST OF KANSAS CITY...AND SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE OVER NORTHCENTRAL MISSOURI AND SOUTHCENTRAL IOWA. THE STORM IN NORTHEAST JACKSON COUNTY HAD PRODUCED SMALL HAIL RECENTLY AND WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN AS IT MOVES EAST ACROSS SOUTHERN RAY AND NORTHERN LAFAYETTE BETWEEN 530 AND 630 PM CDT. PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
Special weather statement, Aug 28, 6:32 PM CDT, 4 hours 53 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 631 PM CDT MON AUG 28 1989...CORRRECTION AT 630 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER EXTREME NORTHEAST JACKSON COUNTY...ABOUT 20 MILES EAST OF KANSAS CITY...AND SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE OVER NORTHCENTRAL MISSOURI AND SOUTHCENTRAL IOWA. THE STORM IN NORTHEAST JACKSON COUNTY HAD PRODUCED SMALL HAIL RECENTLY AND WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN AS IT MOVES EAST ACROSS SOUTHERN RAY AND NORTHERN LAFAYETTE BETWEEN 530 AND 630 PM CDT. PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
Special weather statement, Aug 28, 6:33 PM CDT, 4 hours 52 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 631 PM CDT MON AUG 28 1989...CORRRECTION AT 630 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER EXTREME NORTHEAST JACKSON COUNTY...ABOUT 20 MILES EAST OF KANSAS CITY...AND SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE OVER NORTHCENTRAL MISSOURI AND SOUTHCENTRAL IOWA. THE STORM IN NORTHEAST JACKSON COUNTY HAD PRODUCED SMALL HAIL RECENTLY AND WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN AS IT MOVES EAST ACROSS SOUTHERN RAY AND NORTHERN LAFAYETTE BETWEEN 630 AND 730 PM CDT. PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
Special weather statement, Aug 28, 9:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 940 PM CDT MON AUG 28 1989 AT 930 PM...A THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS IN NORTHEAST KANSAS...30 MILES NORTHEAST OF TOPEKA...IN WESTERN ATCHISON COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS ATCHISON COUNTY AND INTO SOUTHERN BUCHANAN AND NORTHERN PLATTE COUNTY MISSOURI AROUND 10 PM. VERY HEAVY RAIN IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM...AND POSSIBLY STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. FARTHER WEST A BAND OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM WICHITA KANSAS TO NEAR LINCOLN NEBRASKA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO MOVING NORTHEA ST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Aug 28, 10:40 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 1040 PM CDT MON AUG 28 1989 AT 1030 PM...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE IN EXTREME NORTHEAST KANSAS...IN SOUTHERN DONIPHAN COUNTY...ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF ST JOSEPH MISSOURI. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS EASTERN DONIPHAN COUNTY AND INTO BUCHANAN COUNTY AND THE ST JOSEPH AREA BY 11 PM. VERY HEAVY RAIN IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM...AND POSSIBLY STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. FARTHER WEST A BAND OF NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM WICHITA KANSAS TO 35 MILES WEST OF TOPEKA KANSAS TO JUST SOUTH OF OMAHA NEBARASKA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Lafayette | 56 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 1989Every flash flood warning in 1989
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.