Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 15, 1990, 10:18 AM CDT for Cole County, Moniteau County, Morgan County, Missouri. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 1990, 10:18 AM CDT (15:18 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 1990, 12:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cole County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Morgan 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, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 1151 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 613 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 323 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KCOU 151518
FFWCOU
MOC141-051-135-151745-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO
1018 AM CDT TUE MAY 15 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE CENTRAL PART OF MISSOURI
MORGAN...COLE...MONITEAU
AT 1015 AM...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE OVER 30 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF COLUMBIA TO OVER JEFFERSON CITY TO 25 MILES EAST OF
JEFFERSON CITY AND MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST. SOME ROADS WERE
BECOMING IMPASSABLE DUE TO HIGH WATER AROUND VERSAILLES IN MORGAN
COUNTY AND CONTINUED HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED THROUGH THE DAY. HEAVY
RAINS IN THE JEFFERSON CITY AREA WILL ALSO CAUSE FLOODING OF MANY
STREETS.
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. NEVER TRY TO CROS)S A FLOWING STREAM ON FOOT.
MORSE/LARMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | St. Clair | 31 min |
| May 15, 6:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 30 min |
| May 15, 11:07 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson | 3 hr |
| May 15, 11:07 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Platte | 3 hr |
| May 15, 12:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper | 69 min |
| May 15, 12:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Hickory | 69 min |
| May 15, 12:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard | 62 min |
| May 15, 1:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard, Saline | 3 hr |
| May 15, 1:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Pettis | 3 hr |
| May 15, 1:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Boone, Moniteau | 33 min |
| May 15, 1:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Callaway | 32 min |
| May 15, 2:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Boone, Moniteau | 3 hr |
| May 15, 2:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Audrain, Callaway | 3 hr |
| May 15, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Gasconade, Montgomery | 28 min |
| May 15, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Gasconade | 39 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.