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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 11, 1993Pulaski County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 11, 1993, 9:00 AM CDT for Pulaski County, Missouri. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 11, 1993, 9:00 AM CDT (14:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 1993, 11:00 AM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Pulaski County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 174 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1993-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 533 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1993-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 37 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
533 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
712 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCOU 111401
FFWCOU
MOC169-111600-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO
900 AM CDT FRI JUN 11 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL MISSOURI
 
   ...PULASKI COUNTY
 
AT 845 AM THE SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT IN PULASKI COUNTY REPORTED
3 MAIN ROADS UNDER WATER. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DUMPED HEAVY RAIN IN
PULASKI COUNTY ALL NIGHT LONG...AND THE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED
TO FORM IN THAT AREA AT 900 AM THIS MORNING. THE THUNDERSTORM
THAT WAS PRODUCING THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS 35 MILES WEST OF ROLLA
NEAR RICHLAND.
 
THE ROADS UNDER WATER IN PULASKI COUNTY WERE HIGHWAY 133...3 MILES
NORTH OF INTERSTATE 44. HIGHWAY T OFF OF HIGHWAY 17 NEAR WAYNESVILLE
AND HIGHWAY V OFF OF HIGHWAY 17 NORTH OF CROCKER WAS CLOSED AT 2
POINTS.
 
 
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS TAKING PLACE OR ABOUT
TO TAKE PLACE. KNOW WHERE YOU ARE AT FROM STREAMS...RIVERS AND
CREEKS THAT CAN BECOME KILLERS DURING HEAVY RAINS. IF YOU KNOW OF
ANY NEIGHBORS THAT MAY HAVE A HARD TIME ESCAPING FLOOD WATERS...HELP
THEM OR LET OTHERS KNOW ABOUT THEM.
 
LA GREE

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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.