Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 26, 1990, 2:41 AM CDT for Henry County, Missouri. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 1990, 2:41 AM CDT (07:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1990, 6:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Henry 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 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 3283 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1000 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMCI 260741
FFWMCI
MOC083-261145-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INT'L AIRPORT MO
241 AM CDT SAT MAY 26 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE WEST CENTRAL PART OF MISSOURI
HENRY
AT 230 AM CDT THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED TO MOVE
ACROSS HENRY COUNTY. CLINTON POLICE REPORTED GENERALIZED FLOODING.
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.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOOD WATERS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...
ACT QWUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO
NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.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 26, 12:10 AM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before
MOZ008-260530 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 1205 AM CDT SAT MAY 26 1990 AT 1200 AM...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 319 THAT INCLUDED THE KANSAS CITY AND ST. JOSEPH METROPOLITAN AREAS WAS CANCELED. WATCH NUMBER 319 WAS REPLACED BY SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 320 WHICH COVERS MUCH OF EASTCENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS...BUT DOES NOT INCLUDE THE ST. JOSEPH OR KANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN AREAS. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TONIGHT FOR KANSAS CITY AND SURROUNDING AREAS AS SOME HEAVY STORMS MAY PERSIST IN THE AREA.
Local storm report, May 26, 12:27 AM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO
1227 AM CDT SAT MAY 26 1990
SEVERE WEATHER EVENTS FOR FRIDAY EVENING 5/25/90
TIME EVENT LOCATION
640 PM CDT GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL 4 MILES WEST OF WARRENSBURG
IN JOHNSON COUNTY MO.
643 PM CDT GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL IN WARRENSBURG...JOHNSON CO.
752 PM CDT 1/2 INCH HAIL 12 MILES SOUTH OF WARRENSBURG
IN JOHNSON COUNTY MO.
815 PM CDT FLOODING IN AND AROUND WARRENSBURG...
JOHNSON COUNTY MO.
1028 PM CDT 1/2 INCH HAIL NEAR EDGERTON IN JOHNSON
COUNTY KANSAS.The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Maries, Pulaski | 46 min |
| May 25, 10:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cass, Johnson | 108 min |
| May 25, 10:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 35 min |
| May 25, 11:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Camden, Morgan | 3 hr |
| May 25, 11:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cole | 3 hr |
| May 26, 2:36 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Morgan | 2 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 1990Every flash flood warning in 1990
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.