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Flash Flood Warning 134, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 24, 1993, 1:45 AM CDT for DeKalb County, Missouri. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 24, 1993, 1:45 AM CDT (06:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 1993, 4:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County DeKalb County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 5836 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 813 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 327 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 6.2
- Supercell composite
- 29.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Jul 23, 10:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before
MOZ001-004-005-008-009-013-KSZ016-240430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY...CORRECTED LOCATION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 1030 PM CDT FRI JUL 23 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT TILL 3AM SATURDAY MORNING... ...FOR ALL OF NORTHWEST MISSOURI... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST MISSOURI... AT 1030PM SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN EXTREME NORTHEAST KANSAS... SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AND NORTHWEST MISSOURI. THE STORMS WERE LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF FALLS CITY NEBRASKA OR 20 MILES WEST OF ST JOSEPH. HEAVY RAINS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR SO FLOODING IS POSSIBLE. THE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO DONIPHAN COUNTY KANSAS WITHIN THE NEXT HALF HOUR AND INTO ST JOSEPH BY 1130 PM. ALSO STRONG WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE. KETCHAM
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 10:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
MOZ001-004-005-008-009-013-KSZ016-240430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 1030 PM CDT FRI JUL 23 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT TILL 3AM SATURDAY MORNING... ...FOR ALL OF NORTHWEST MISSOURI... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST MISSOURI... AT 1030PM SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN EXTREME NORTHEAST KANSAS... SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AND NORTHWEST MISSOURI. THE STORMS WERE LOCATED JUST OF FALLS CITY NEBRASKA OR 20 MILES WEST OF ST JOSEPH. HEAVY RAINS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR SO FLOODING IS POSSIBLE. THE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO DONIPHAN COUNTY KANSAS WITHIN THE NEXT HALF HOUR AND INTO ST JOSEPH BY 1130 PM. ALSO STRONG WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE. KETCHAM
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 10:43 PM CDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before
MOZ001-004-005-008-009-013-KSZ016-240430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY...CORRECTED LOCATION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 1030 PM CDT FRI JUL 23 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT TILL 3AM SATURDAY MORNING... ...FOR ALL OF NORTHWEST MISSOURI... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST MISSOURI... AT 1030PM SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN EXTREME NORTHEAST KANSAS... SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AND NORTHWEST MISSOURI. THE STORMS WERE LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF FALLS CITY NEBRASKA OR 20 MILES WEST OF ST JOSEPH. HEAVY RAINS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR SO FLOODING IS POSSIBLE. THE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO DONIPHAN COUNTY KANSAS WITHIN THE NEXT HALF HOUR AND INTO ST JOSEPH BY 1130 PM. ALSO STRONG WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE. KETCHAM
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 11:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 11:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Atchison, Holt | 5 hr |
| Jul 23, 11:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Gentry, Nodaway, Worth | 4 hr |
| Jul 23, 11:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Andrew | 4 hr |
| Jul 24, 12:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew, Holt | 25 min |
| Jul 24, 12:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew, DeKalb | 48 min |
| Jul 24, 1:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Mercer, Putnam | 3 hr |
| Jul 24, 1:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Daviess, Grundy, Harrison | 3 hr |
| Jul 24, 1:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Livingston | 3 hr |
| Jul 24, 4:03 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Atchison, Nodaway | 4 hr |
| Jul 24, 7:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew, Buchanan | 36 min |
| Jul 24, 7:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Doniphan | 49 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.