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Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 8, 1990Clinton County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 8, 1990, 7:07 PM CDT for Clinton County, Missouri. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 8, 1990, 7:07 PM CDT (00:07 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 1990, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Clinton 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, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 126 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 5742 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 826 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 243 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 6.7
Supercell composite: 28.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMCI 090007
FFWMCI
KSC043-MOC003-021-049-063-087-090315-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI
707 PM CDT FRI JUN 8 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY MISSOURI HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
 
IN NORTHEAST KANSAS
          ...DONIPHAN
IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI
          ...ANDREW...BUCHANAN...CLINTON...DEKALB...HOLT
 
AT 700PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE TO
MOVE ACROSS EXTREME NORTHEAST KANSAS AND PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST
MISSOURI. SATELLITE ESTIMATES THAT RAINFALL IN THIS AREA HAS AVERAGED
AROUND 2 INCHES IN THE PAST 3 HOURS WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL UP TO TWO
INCHES POSSIBLE OVER THE WARNED AREA THROUGH 10PM.
 
THIS AREA RECEIVED SEVERAL DELUGES OF RAIN EARLIER TODAY THAT HAS
COMPLICATED THE FLOODING SITUATION.
 
THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDES THE MAJOR METROPOLITAN AREAS OF
PLATTSBURG...ST. JOSEPH AND SAVANNAH MISSOURI...AND IN KANSAS THE CITY
OF TROY.
 
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...ORw 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.
POOLE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 8, 7:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan, DeKalb, Holt	3 hr
Jun 8, 7:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay	65 min
Jun 8, 7:19 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Clay	4 hr
Jun 8, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Benton	42 min
Jun 8, 7:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Ray	67 min
Jun 8, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Benton, Morgan	40 min
Jun 8, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Boone, Callaway	28 min
Jun 8, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cole	29 min
Jun 8, 8:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Jackson	3 hr
Jun 8, 9:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Cass	3 hr
Jun 8, 9:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Montgomery, Osage	54 min
Jun 8, 9:08 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Boone, Cooper, Moniteau	3 hr
Jun 8, 9:08 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Callaway, Cole, Montgomery, Osage	3 hr
Jun 8, 9:31 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Johnson	2 hr
Jun 8, 9:41 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Gasconade, Maries	3 hr
Jun 8, 9:41 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Miller, Morgan	3 hr
Jun 8, 10:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Henry	4 hr
Jun 9, 1:21 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Bates, Henry	3 hr

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.