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Flash Flood Warning 53, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 20, 1990, 2:04 AM CDT for Holt County, Nodaway County, Missouri. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 20, 1990, 2:04 AM CDT (07:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 1990, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Holt County, MO, Nodaway 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 3973 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2077 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 320 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 44.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMCI 200705
FFWMCI
MOC075-081-087-147-201000-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI
204 AM CDT WED JUN 20 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY MISSOURI HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI
...GENTRY...HARRISON...HOLT...NODAWAY
AT 200 AM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS...PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE
ACROSS THE NORTHWEST MISSOURI COUNTIES OF HOLT...NODAWAY...AND GENTRY
COUNTIES MOVING EAST TOWARDS HARRISON COUNTY. SATELLITE PRECIPITATION
ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT APPROXIMATELY /1.2/ INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN
OVER PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST HOLT COUNTY SINCE 10PM. THIS AMOUNT OF
RAINFALL APPROACHES FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE FOR THIS AREA THAT IS SET AT
/1.8/ INCHES OF RAINFALL IN ANY THREE HOUR PERIOD. THIS RAIN IS
FALLING ON ALREADY SATURATED GROUND AND THE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO
FORM AND MOVE ACROSS THE SAME AREA.
THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE OVER THIS WARNED AREA UNTIL
AROUND 4AM. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED IN LOW LYING
AREAS...STREETS...AND ALONG SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS. BE ESPECIALLY
CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN FLASH FLOOD DANGERS ARE MORE DIFFICULT TO
INDENTIFY.
THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDES THE MAJOR TOWNS OF MOUND
CITY...MARYVILLE...CONCEPTION JUNCTION AND ALBANY ALL IN MISSOURI. THE
FLASH FLOOD WARNED AREA IS LOCATED APPROXIMATELY FROM 25 TO 50 MILES
NORTH OF ST. JOSEPH MISSOURI.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGEHER 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 19, 8:05 PM CDT, 5 hours 59 minutes before
MOZ001-004-200200- SPECIAL WEATHER STSTEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 800 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 1990 A FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES FOR NORTHWEST MISSOURI... THUNDERSTOFRMS ARE EXPECTED LATER TONITE ACROSS NORTHWEST MISSOURI... JUST A LITTLE LATER THAN EARLIER THOUGHT. THE SOIL IS NEARLY SATURATED FROM RECENT HEAVY RAINS...AND ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN COULD PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING.
Special weather statement, Jun 20, 1:36 AM CDT, 28 minutes before
MOZ008-200730- SPECIAL WEATHER STSTEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 130 AM CDT WED JUN 20 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR THE KANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN AREA UNTIL 3AM CDT... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR NORTHWEST MISSOURI TONIGHT... THE METROPOLITAN AREA OF KANSAS CITY CONTINUES UNDER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH...BUT AT 130AM...RADAR DID NOT INDICATE ANY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THREATENING THE METROPOLITAN AREA. A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS WITH A FEW EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED ACROSS EASTCENTRAL KANSAS MOVING INTO THE KANSAS CITY AREA FROM THE WEST. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE METROPOLITAN AREA UNTIL AROUND SUNRISE. RAINFALL WITH THIS LARGE PRECIPITATION AREA COULD CAUSE BRIEF STREET FLOODING AND POSSIBLE RISES ON SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...AS THE RAIN IS FALLING ON PREVIOUSLY SATURATED GROUND. AT 130 AM THE BACK EDGE OF THE PRECIPITAION WAS LOCATED AS FAR WEST IN KANSAS( AS SALINA WITH THE STORMS MOVING EAST AT 30 TO 35 MPH. POOLE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 1:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Gentry, Nodaway | 58 min |
| Jun 20, 1:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | DeKalb | 58 min |
| Jun 20, 2:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Gentry, Harrison | 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.