Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Nov 1, 1992, 12:40 AM CST for Chariton County, Saline County, Missouri. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 1, 1992, 12:40 AM CST (06:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 1, 1992, 2:45 AM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Chariton County, MO, Saline County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 581 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 218 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 343 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 KCOU 010640 FFWCOU MOC195-041-010845- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 1240 AM CST SUN NOV 1 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S... IN CENTRAL MISSOURI ...NORTHERN SALINE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI ...SOUTHERN CHARITON COUNTY AT 1225 AM THE POLICE IN BRUNSWICK WHICH IS 55 MILES NORTHWEST OF COLUMBIA REPORTED 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAINFALL OVER THE LAST FEW HOURS AND HEAVY RAIN WAS OCCURRING AT 1225 AM. WATER WAS OVER HIGHWAY 24 IN SEVERAL PLACES AT BRUNSWICK. RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THAT AREA FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO "NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. LA GREE
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, Oct 31, 8:10 PM CST, 4 hours 30 minutes before
MOZ008-009-013-KSZ016-010300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT RANGE FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 805 PM CST SAT OCT 31 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP OVER EAST CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 800 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED RAPIDLY OVER EAST CENTRAL KANSAS...INCLUDING THE SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST PART OF THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN A 10 MILE WIDE BAND EXTENDING FROM NEAR OLATHE KANSAS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN JOHNSON COUNTY...TO 20 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF PEOLA...OR JUST SOUTHEAST OF OTTAWA. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS 35 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF TOPEKA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR...AND THEY WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT THE OLATHE AREA...ALONG WITH OVERLAND PARK...KANSAS CITY KANSAS...SPRING HILL...AND AREAS JUST WEST AND NORTH OF PEOLA BEFORE 815 PM. THE STORMS WILL ALSO RAPIDLY MOVE INTO THE MISSOURI SIDE OF THE KANSAS CITY AREA...IN WESTERN JACKSON COUNTY ...CLAY...AND SOUTHERN PLATTE COUNTIES BY 845 PM. THIS INCLUDES ALMOST ALL OF THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE LOCALLY VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. PERSO.NS SHOULD MOVE INDOORS WHILE THESE THUNDERSTORMS PASS THROUGH THE AREA. DESTRI
Special weather statement, Oct 31, 9:21 PM CST, 3 hours 19 minutes before
MOZ004-005-008-009-013-KSZ016-010400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 915 PM CST SAT OCT 31 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH KANSAS CITY... AT 910 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER PARTS OF NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...AND NORTHEAST KANSAS. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE JUST WEST OF OLATHE KANSAS...JUST EAST AND SOUTH OF KANSAS CITY...NEAR RAYMORE...LEES SUMMIT...AND BLUE SPRINGS MISSOURI...AND 40 MILES NORTHEAST AND EAST NORTHEAST OF KANSAS CITY ...NEAR POLO AND RICHMOND. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR... AND THEY WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE MISSOURI AND KANSAS RIVERS IN THE KANSAS CITY AREA...TO NEAR CHILLICOTHE AND CARROLTON. . THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE LOCALLY VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. PERSONS SHOULD MOVE INDOORS WHILE THESE THUNDERSTORMS> PASS THROUGH THE AREA. DESTRI
Special weather statement, Oct 31, 10:22 PM CST, 2 hours 18 minutes before
MOZ002-004-005-008-009-013-KSZ016-010500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 1015 PM CST SAT OCT 31 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER KANSAS CITY... AT 1010 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING LOCALIZED STREET FLOODING IN KANSAS CITY MAINLY JUST SOUTH AND EAST OF DOWNTOWN. THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING CONTINUED TO DEVELOP AND MOVE ACROSS MUCH OF JACKSON COUNTY MISSOURI ...AFFECTING MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH KANSAS CITY AND THE SURROUNDING SUBURBS. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...ALSO CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE EAST AND NORTHEAST OF KANSAS CITY...FROM ODESSA AND LEXINGTON...NORTH TO NEAR CHILLICOTHE. MORE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST MISSOURI...SOUTH OF MOUND CITY KANSAS AND BUTLER MISSOURI...JUST SOUTH OF LINN AND BATES COUNTIES. ALL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR... AND THIS SHOULD MOVE THE HEAVIEST RAIN EAST OF THE KANSAS CITY AREA BY 1100 PM. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY REACH JUST SOUTH OF MOUND CITY AND BUTLER...ALSO BY 1100 PM. PERSONS SHOULD MOVE INDOORS WHILE THESE THUNDERSTORMS PASS THROUGH THE AREAB. ALSO...MOTORISTS SHOULD USE EXTREME CAUTION AND WATCH FOR HIGH WATER ON ROADS. REMEMBER TO NEVER DRIVE THROUGH AREAS WHERE THERE IS FLOWING WATER. DESTRI
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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.