Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 31, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 7, 1990, 9:00 AM CDT for Montgomery County, Missouri. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 1990, 9:00 AM CDT (14:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 1990, 12:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 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 12:00Z, 2.0 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
- 1852 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -181 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 918 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KCOU 071400
FFWCOU
MOC139-071700-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO
900 AM CDT THU JUN 7 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1200 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE EAST CENTRAL PART OF MISSOURI
MONTGOMERY
AT 900 AM STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED OVER
MONTGOMERY COUNTY. THIS RAIN WAS FALLING OVER ALLREADY SATURATED
GROUND AND WAS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING OVER MUCH OF MONTGOMERY
COUNTY. HIGHWAY J NORTH OF BIG SPRINGS IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY WAS
REPORTED UNDER WATER BY THE COUNTY SHERIFF...ALONG WITH NUMEROUS
OTHER COUNTY ROADS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY TO THE
EAST...HOWEVER THEY CONTINUED TO REDEVELOP OVER THE AREA.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT.
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH DIPS OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY. XNEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM ON FOOT.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, Jun 7, 5:46 AM CDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 545 AM CDT THU JUN 7 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE OVER NORTHWEST MISSOURI... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 12 NOON... AT 528 AM...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER PARTS OF NORTHWEST MISSOURI. THE HEAVIEST OF THE STORMS WAS LOCATED NEAR NODAWAY IN ANDREW COUNTY... 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF ST JOSEPH. NEARBY STORMS HAD PRODUCED PEA SIZE HAIL IN THE ST JOSEPH AREA SHORTLY AFTER 500 AM. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER PARTS OF SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA SOUTHEAST OF LINCOLN... ALONG THE IOWA-MISSOURI BORDER NORTH OF MARYVILLE MISSOURI.. . AND OVER PARTS OF NORTHERN MISSOURI NORTH OF THE MISSOURI RIVER. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND BRIEF GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS WELL. MOVEMENT OF ALL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 7:51 AM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 750 AM CDT THU JUN 7 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER NORTHWEST MISSOURI... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM... AT 735 AM...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER PARTS OF NORTHWEST MISSOURI. THIS ACTIVITY WAS LOCATED NORTH OF A LINE FROM KANSAS CITY TO CHILLICOTHE IN LIVINGSTON COUNTY. THE HEAVIEST STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG THE DAVIESS-LIVINGSTON COUNTY LINE... 50 MILES NORTHEAST OF KANSAS CITY. THESE STORMS HAD PRODUCED TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS... STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND MARBLE SIZE HAIL EARLIER THIS MORNING. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST TO NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR... AND WILL AFFECT MUCH OF GRUNDY AND LIVINGSTON COUNTIES BY 815 AM. HEAVY RAINFALL IS LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS... WHICH MAY PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. IF YOU ARE PLANNING TRAVEL IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI THIS MORNING... USE EXTRA CAUTION AND DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE MOVING WATER COVERS THE ROAD. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO LOCATED OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL MISSOURI BETWEEN BOONVILLE AND ST. LOUIS. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF NEBRASKA... AND OVER PARTS OF EXTREME SOUTHWEST IOWA. MOVEMENT OF ALL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS EAST TO NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. LONGNECKER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 2:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Montgomery | 4 hr |
| Jun 7, 6:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew | 50 min |
| 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 |
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.