Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 124, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 23, 1993, 2:59 AM CDT for Worth County, Missouri. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 23, 1993, 2:59 AM CDT (07:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 1993, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Worth County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 2002 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 664 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMCI 230802 FFWMCI MOC079-117-005-061-063-075-081-147-227-231300- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 259 AM CDT FRI JUL 23 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY MISSOURI HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI ...GRUNDY COUNTY...LIVINGSTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI ...ATCHISON COUNTY...DAVIESS COUNTY...DEKALB COUNTY ...GENTRY COUNTY...HARRISON COUNTY...NODAWAY COUNTY...WORTH COUNTY AT 250 AM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED WIDESPREAD RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ACROSS THE WARNED AREA WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS TO 4 INCHES OVER THE SOUTHERN PARTS OF WORTH AND GENTRY COUNTIES. OTHER ISOLATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS TO 3 INCHES WERE LOCATED ALONG THE GRUNDY LIVINGSTON COUNTY LINE AND ACROSS NORTHERN ATCHISON COUNTY IN EXTREME NORTHWESTERN MISSOURI. THIS IS A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. DON'T MAKE A FATAL MISTAKE...AVOID RAPIDLY RISING WATER. 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. MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLO,WING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. HIBBERT/DESTRI &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 48 min |
| Jul 22, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 31 min |
| Jul 22, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Nodaway | 44 min |
| Jul 22, 11:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Gentry, Worth | 4 hr |
| Jul 22, 11:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Nodaway | 4 hr |
| Jul 22, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | DeKalb, Gentry, Harrison | 58 min |
| Jul 23, 12:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Daviess | 48 min |
| Jul 23, 12:57 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Atchison | 3 hr |
| Jul 23, 1:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Daviess | 3 hr |
| Jul 23, 2:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Daviess, Grundy, Harrison, Livingston | 5 hr |
| Jul 23, 2:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | DeKalb, Gentry | 5 hr |
| Jul 23, 2:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Atchison, Nodaway | 5 hr |
| Jul 23, 6:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Andrew, DeKalb | 5 hr |
| Jul 23, 6:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Holt | 5 hr |
| Jul 23, 11:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Holt | 2 hr |
| Jul 23, 3:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis | 49 min |
| Jul 23, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 33 min |
| Jul 23, 4:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Callaway | 2 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.