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Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 7, 1990, 2:53 AM CDT for Montgomery County, Missouri. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 1990, 2:53 AM CDT (07:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 1990, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Montgomery 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 305 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
- 2413 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -135 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1365 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 7.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KCOU 070753
FFWCOU
MOC139-071200-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO
253 AM CDT THU JUN 7 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE EAST CENTRAL PART OF MISSOURI
MONTGOMERY
THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN HAVE MOVED THROUGH MONTGOMERY
COUNTY IN SUCCESSION OVERNIGHT AND MORE STORMS WILL PASS OVER THE
AREA BEFORE DAYBREAK. MANY STREAMS WILL BE OUT OF THEIR BANKS AND
MANY ROADS WILL BE IMPASSABLE THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE NIGHT.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.
VEHICLES8 CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED IMMEDIATELY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
GOEBELWhat 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, Jun 7, 2:16 AM CDT, 37 minutes before
MOZ008-070800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 210 AM CDT THU JUN 7 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA FOR TONIGHT... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTROM WATCH...NUMBER 404...IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA. HOWEVER...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING IN ANOTHER WATCH AREA IN WEST KANSAS. QUITE POSSIBLY...THESE STORMS WILL PERSIST THROUGH THE NIGHT ARRIhVING IN THE LOCAL AREA EARLY THURSDAY MORNING. THE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MAY BE REISSUED. STAY TUNED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 6:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew | 50 min |
| Jun 7, 9:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Montgomery | 3 hr |
| Jun 7, 9:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Macon | 4 hr |
| Jun 7, 9:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Audrain | 4 hr |
| Jun 7, 12:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Pettis | 20 min |
| Jun 7, 1:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Boone, Cole, Moniteau | 64 min |
| Jun 7, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cole, Miller, Osage | 55 min |
| Jun 7, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Maries | 55 min |
| Jun 7, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton, Randolph | 20 min |
| Jun 7, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Audrain, Boone | 41 min |
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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.