Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Apr 20, 1992, 3:19 PM CDT for Jackson County, Missouri. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 20, 1992, 3:19 PM CDT (20:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 1992, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 751 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMCI 202022 RRA FFWMCI MOC095-210015- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING...LITTLE BLUE RIVER...JACKSON CO MO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 319 PM CDT MON APR 20 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY MISSOURI HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI ...NORTHEASTERN JACKSON COUNTY THE PROLONGED RAINS THAT HAVE FALLEN OVER NORTHEASTERN JACKSON COUNTY HAVE CAUSED THE LITTLE BLUE RIVER AT LAKE CITY TO GO ABOVE FLOOD STAGE. THE STAGE AT LAKE CITY WAS 13.9 FT AT 3PM...FLOOD STAGE IS 8.5 FT. THE INTENSITY OF THE RAINFALL HAS DECREASED DURING THE PAST SEVERAL HOURS...AND THE STAGE AT LAKE CITY IS EXPECTED TO ONLY RISE ANOTHER HALF-FOOT OR SO BEFORE CRESTING LATER THIS EVENING. RM
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, Apr 20, 2:43 PM CDT, 36 minutes before
MOZ001-004-008-009-013-202045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 235 PM CDT MON APR 20 1992 ...SPRING SNOWS IN THE KANSAS CITY AREA... SNOWS WERE STARTING TO GET A LITTLE HEAVY AT THE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AT 230 PM WITH A THIN COATING ON THE GRASSY AREAS. THE SNOW WAS FALLING IN LARGE CLUMPS AND WAS RESTRICTING THE VISIBILITY TO TO ABOUT 1/4 MILE. WINDS WERE ALSO WHIPPING THE SNOWS ACROSS THE AREA...GUSTING TO AROUND 30 MPH. ALTHOUGH SOME TRACES OF SNOW WILL CONTINUE TO ACCUMULATE ON THE GRASS...SIGNIFICANT TOTALS ARE NOT EXPECTED AND THE SNOW THAT DOES STICK WILL MELT QUICKLY. PERSONS DRIVING ON THE ROADWAYS ACROSS THE KANSAS CITY AREA AND NORTHWEST MISSOURI SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS DRIVING CONDITIONS. ROADS WILL BE SLICK...BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES MAY HAVE A THIN COATING OF ICE AND SNOW. TAKE EXTRA CARE TO REACH YOUR DESTINATIONS SAFELY. HIBBERT
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.