Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 15, 1990, 2:46 PM CDT for Audrain County, Callaway County, Missouri. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 1990, 2:46 PM CDT (19:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 1990, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Audrain County, MO, Callaway 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 290 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
- 1151 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 613 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 323 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KCOU 151946 RRA
FFWCOU
MOC019-027-135-007-152245-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO
246 PM CDT TUE MAY 15 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN CENTRAL MISSOURI
...BOONE...CALLAWAY...NORTHERN MONITEAU
IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI
...EASTERN AUDRAIN
AT 230 STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THOUGH CENTRAL MISSOURI. THESE
STORMS HAVE PRODUCED VERY HEAVY RAINS AND FLOODED ROADWAYS HAVE BEEN
REPORTED IN THE AREA.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT 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 UP TO HIGHER GROUND.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, May 15, 8:48 AM CDT, 5 hours 58 minutes before
MOZ004-008-151445- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 835 AM CDT TUE MAY 15 1990 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTILL 10 AM CDT... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF WEST MISSOURI. THIS INCLUDES BOTH THE GREATER KANSAS CITY AND ST JOSEPH AREAS UNTIL 6PM... THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND POSSIBLY HAIL...WERE 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KANSAS CITY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AND WILL MOVE ACROSS JOHNSON AND MIAMI COUNTY KANSAS AND JACKSON AND CASS COUNTY MISSOURI IN THE NEXT HOUR. FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS HAS BEEN REPORTED IN THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA. MOTORISTS ARE URGED NOT TO CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PART OF A WIDESPREAD AREA OF PRECIPITATION WHICH COVERED MOST OF NORTHERN MISSOURI AND NORTHEAST KANSAS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, May 15, 9:48 AM CDT, 4 hours 58 minutes before
MOZ004-008-151445- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 935 AM CDT TUE MAY 15 1990 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CDT... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF WEST MISSOURI INCLUDING BOTH THE GREATER KANSAS CITY AND ST JOSEPH AREAS UNTIL 6PM... THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE 50 MILES SOUTH...AND 25 MILES WEST OF KANSAS CITY. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE IN NORTHEAST KANSAS...40 MILES TO THE WEST OF ST JOSEPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE OUT OF THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA BY 1030AM. HOWEVER...FLOODING WILL BE A PROBLEM IN LOW LYING AREAS DUE TO HEAVY RUNOFF. THE THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHEAST KANSAS WILL MOVE INTO THE NORTHERN PART OF THE KANSAS CITY AREA AND THE ST JOSEPH AREA BY 1030 AM. HEAVY RAIN AND FLOODING ARE LIKEY TO OCCUR WITH THESE STORMS.
Special weather statement, May 15, 10:13 AM CDT, 4 hours 33 minutes before
MOZ004-008-151545- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 1000 AM CDT TUE MAY 15 1990 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CDT... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF WEST MISSOURI INCLUDING BOTH THE GREATER KANSAS CITY AND ST JOSEPH AREAS UNTIL 6PM... NUMEROUS REPORTS OF FLOODING HAVE BEEN OBSERVED IN THE KANSAS CITY AREA. ALTHOUGH THE HEAVIEST RAIN SHOULD END WITHIN THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS...FLOODING WILL CONTINUE TO BE A PROBLEM IN LOW LYING AREAS DUE TO HEAVY RUNOFF. AT 10 AM THE STAGE ON THE BLUE RIVER AT BANNISTER ROAD WAS AT 24 FEET AND RISING. AT 1006 AM...THE LEED`S DISTRICT ON THE BLUE RIVER IS BEING EVACUATED DUE TO HIGH WATER.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | St. Clair | 31 min |
| May 15, 6:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 30 min |
| May 15, 10:18 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cole, Moniteau, Morgan | 2 hr |
| May 15, 11:07 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson | 3 hr |
| May 15, 11:07 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Platte | 3 hr |
| May 15, 12:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper | 69 min |
| May 15, 12:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Hickory | 69 min |
| May 15, 12:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard | 62 min |
| May 15, 1:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard, Saline | 3 hr |
| May 15, 1:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Pettis | 3 hr |
| May 15, 1:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Boone, Moniteau | 33 min |
| May 15, 1:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Callaway | 32 min |
| May 15, 2:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Boone, Moniteau | 3 hr |
| May 15, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Gasconade, Montgomery | 28 min |
| May 15, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Gasconade | 39 min |
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.