Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 51, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 14, 1990, 10:06 AM CDT for Johnson County, Missouri. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 1990, 10:06 AM CDT (15:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1990, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Johnson 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 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 2161 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 809 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMCI 141507
FFWMCI
MOC101-141815-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI
1006 AM CDT THU JUN 14 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY MISSOURI HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI
...JOHNSON
AT 1000AM CDT...RAINFALL REPORTS FROM WARRENSBURG MISSOURI...LOCATED
60 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KANSAS CITY...HAVE INDICATED THAT 4.5 INCHES OF
RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS PORTIONS OF JOHNSON COUNTY SINCE 7AM.
FLASH FLOODING IS OCCURRING NOW AND HAS PROMPTED THE NEED FOR THE
EARLIER WARNING THAT WAS ISSUED UNTIL 103AM TO BE EXTENDED UNTIL
100PM.
REPORTS OF FLOODING HAVE INCLUDED ONE CAR SWEPT OFF THE ROAD NEAR
HOLDEN MISSOURI IN RUSHING WATER...MANY STREETS AND INTERSECTIONS
FLOODED WITH UP TO 1 FOOT OF WATER...ALL LOWLYING AREAS ARE
EXPERIENCING FLOODING...WITH MORE RAIN EXPECTED OVER THE SAME ALREADY
SATURATED AREA INTO THE EARLY AFTERNOON.
PERSONS IN AND NEAR BLACKWATER RIVER SHOULD BE ESPECIALLY CAREFUL AND
ALERT TO RAPIDLY RISING WATER LEVELS. THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS FLASH
FLOODING SITUATION.
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.
POOLEWhat 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 14, 4:23 AM CDT, 5 hours 43 minutes before
MOZ004-008-141000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 415 AM CDT THU JUN 14 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 461 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE KANSAS CITY AND ST. JOSEPH AREAS. AT 415AM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THE METROPOLITAN AREAS OF ST. JOSEPH AND KANSAS CITY MISSOURI...BUT NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH ANY OF THESE STORMS SINCE MIDNIGHT...THEREFORE PROMPTING THE CANCELLATION OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 461. THUNDERSTORMS...WITH HEAVY RAIN ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ACROSS THE METROPOLITAN AREAS THROUGH 530AM. HEAVY RAIN COULD CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING...ESPECIALLY IN THE ST. JOSEPH MISSOURI AREA... BUT NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED. POOLE THESE STORMS BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND 330AM. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE IN THE KANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN AREA THROUGH 5AM. HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN COULD PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLOODING...ESPECIALLY IN LOW LYING AREAS AND NEAR ZERO VISIBILITY. PERSONS SHOULD STAY INDOORS UNTIL THESE STORMS PASS THROUGH THE AREA AS THEY ARE ALSO PRODUCING NEAR CONTINUOUS...DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. POOLE
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 4:24 AM CDT, 5 hours 42 minutes before
MOZ004-008-141000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 415 AM CDT THU JUN 14 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 461 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE KANSAS CITY AND ST. JOSEPH AREAS. AT 415AM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THE METROPOLITAN AREAS OF ST. JOSEPH AND KANSAS CITY MISSOURI...BUT NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH ANY OF THESE STORMS SINCE MIDNIGHT...THEREFORE PROMPTING THE CANCELLATION OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 461. THUNDERSTORMS...WITH HEAVY RAIN ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ACROSS THE METROPOLITAN AREAS THROUGH 530AM. HEAVY RAIN COULD CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING...ESPECIALLY IN THE ST. JOSEPH MISSOURI AREA... BUT NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED. POOLE
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 4:47 AM CDT, 5 hours 19 minutes before
MOZ004-008-141045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 430 AM CDT THU JUN 14 1990 AT 430 AM...AN AREA OF SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS NORTHWEST MISSOURI AND A SMALL PART OF NORTHEAST KANSAS. THE HEAVIEST PRECIPITATION WAS 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF TOPEKA AND 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF KANSAS CITY. SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO END IN THE ST JOSEPH AREA DURING THE HOUR AND ACROSS THE KANSAS CITY AREA FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST AROUND 6AM THIS THURSDAY MORNING. SO FAR KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT HAS RECIEVED ONE HALF INCH/ .50 / OF RAIN. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 6:43 AM CDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before
MOZ004-008-141230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 645 AM CDT THU JUN 14 1990 AT 630 AM...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE CLEARING THE METROPOLITAN KANSAS CITY AREA...MOVING SOUTHEAST INTO CENTRAL MISSOURI. THUNDERSTORMS BEGAN IN THE METROPOLITAN AREA AROUND 3AM PRODUCING /0.57/ INCH OF RAIN AT THE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. /0.96/ INCH OF RAIN WAS REPORTED 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF KEARNEY MISSOURI BETWEEN 4AM AND 6AM. HEAVIER RAINFALL TOTALS FELL OVER EXTREME NORTHWEST MISSOURI IN AND AROUND THE MARYVILLE AREA...WHERE PRELIMINARY MORNING REPORTS INDICATED TOTALS AT MARYVILLE OF /1.10/...BETHANY MISSOURI /1.43/... AND AT POLO MISSOURI... /1.92/. A BREAK IN THE THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED DURING MID MORNING INTO THE EARLY HALF OF THE AFTERNOON...WITH ANOTHER ROUND OF REDEVELOPMENT EXPECTED LATER THIS AFTERNOON. THERE IS A CHANCE THAT SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE SEVERE AND PRODUCgE HEAVY RAINFALL THAT MAY CAUSE FLASH FLOODING. ESPECIALLY VULNERABLE TO FLASH FLOODING WILL BE AREAS ACROSS EXTREME NORTHWEST MISSOURI...WHERE AN EXCESS OF 5 INCHES OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE BEFORE FRIDAY MORNING. POOLE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 8:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Benton, Hickory | 3 hr |
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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.