Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 6, 1993, 10:08 AM CDT for 4 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 1993, 10:08 AM CDT (15:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1993, 11:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Boone County, MO, Callaway County, MO, Cole County, MO, Moniteau County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 245 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
- 1163 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 557 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 436 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 511 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCOU 061509 FFWCOU MOC019-027-051-135-061615- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 1008 AM CDT SUN JUN 6 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL MISSOURI ...BOONE COUNTY...CALLAWAY COUNTY...NORTHERN COLE COUNTY ...NORTHERN MONITEAU COUNTY AT 10 AM A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CARRYRING STRONG...GUSTY WINDS...HAIL...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...WAS LOCATED NEAR COLUMBIA...TO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COLUMBIA MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. TORRENTIAL RAINS WERE ALSO REPORTED. THESES STORMS PRODUCED FLASH FLOODING NEAR SEDALIA THAT WASHED CARS OFF THE ROAD AND FLOODED ROADWAYS. THE STORMS WILL EFFECT THE COLUMBIA JEFFERSON CITY AREA UNTIL 1030 AM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN ALSO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINS THAT MAKE IT HARD TO SEE VERY FAR. HEAVY RAINS CAN ALSO FLOOD ROADS VERY QUICKLY. DRIVERS SHOULD SLOW DOWN OR PULL OFF THE ROAD UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. TAKE SHELTER INDOORS DURING THE STORM IF POSSIBLE. PERLOW/LAGREE
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, Jun 6, 4:31 AM CDT, 5 hours 37 minutes before
MOZ001-002-004-005-061035- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 431 AM CDT SUN JUN 6 1993 AT 430 AM...NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER NORTHWEST MISSOURI AND SOUTHWEST IOWA. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN AN AREA...85 MILES WIDE...AND EXTENDED FROM 40 MILES EAST OF KANSAS CITY TO OMAHA NEBRASKA. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI WERE 35 MILES EAST OF KANSAS CITY...JUST NORTHEAST OF RICHMOND IN RAY COUNTY...AND 30 MILES NORTH OF ST JOSEPH...SOUTHWEST OF MARYVILLE IN SOUTHERN NODAWAY COUNTY. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MILES AN HOUR. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 4:32 AM CDT, 5 hours 36 minutes before
MOZ001-002-004-005-061035- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 431 AM CDT SUN JUN 6 1993 AT 430 AM...NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER NORTHWEST MISSOURI AND SOUTHWEST IOWA. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN AN AREA...85 MILES WIDE...AND EXTENDED FROM 40 MILES EAST OF KANSAS CITY TO OMAHA NEBRASKA. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI WERE 35 MILES EAST OF KANSAS CITY...JUST NORTHEAST OF RICHMOND IN RAY COUNTY...AND 30 MILES NORTH OF ST JOSEPH...SOUTHWEST OF MARYVILLE IN SOUTHERN NODAWAY COUNTY. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MILES AN HOUR. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 7:34 AM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
MOZ001-002-004-005-008-009-061335- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 734 AM CDT SUN JUN 6 1993 AT 730 AM...SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN NORTHEAST KANSAS...AND OVER ABOUT THE NORTHWEST THIRD OF MISSOURI...AND ACROSS SOUTHERN IOWA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN KANSAS...TO THE NORTHWEST OF MANHATTAN. IN MISSOURI STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE JUST TO THE NORTH AND NORTHEAST OF ST JOSEPH...AND IN WESTCENTRAL MISSOURI JUST NORTHEAST OF CLINTON. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS IN MISSOURI CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MILES AN HOUR. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 7:36 AM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before
MOZ001-002-004-005-008-009-061335- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 734 AM CDT SUN JUN 6 1993 AT 730 AM...SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN NORTHEAST KANSAS...AND OVER ABOUT THE NORTHWEST THIRD OF MISSOURI...AND ACROSS SOUTHERN IOWA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN KANSAS...TO THE NORTHWEST OF MANHATTAN. IN MISSOURI STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE JUST TO THE NORTH AND NORTHEAST OF ST JOSEPH...AND IN WESTCENTRAL MISSOURI JUST NORTHEAST OF CLINTON. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS IN MISSOURI CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MILES AN HOUR. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 9:35 AM CDT, 33 minutes before
MOZ001-002-004-005-008-009-061535- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 935 AM CDT SUN JUN 6 1993 AT 930 AM...SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN NORTHEAST KANSAS... NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI AND ACROSS SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN KANSAS...BETWEEN TOPEKA AND LAWRENCE WHERE GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED ALONG WITH WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH. IN MISSOURI STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE JUST TO THE NORTHEAST OF ST JOSEPH AND JUST TO THE NORTH OF THE LAKE OF THE OZARKS. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST 30 MILES AN HOUR. HM
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 9:38 AM CDT, 30 minutes before
MOZ001-002-004-005-008-009-061535- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 935 AM CDT SUN JUN 6 1993 AT 930 AM...SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN NORTHEAST KANSAS... NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI AND ACROSS SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN KANSAS...BETWEEN TOPEKA AND LAWRENCE WHERE GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED ALONG WITH WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPnH. IN MISSOURI STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE JUST TO THE NORTHEAST OF ST JOSEPH AND JUST TO THE NORTH OF THE LAKE OF THE OZARKS. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST 30 MILES AN HOUR. HM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 8:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis | 30 min |
| Jun 6, 8:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper | 40 min |
| Jun 6, 8:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Morgan | 45 min |
| Jun 6, 10:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Boone, Callaway, Cole, Moniteau | 67 min |
| Jun 6, 11:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Boone, Cooper | 2 hr |
| Jun 6, 11:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Callaway, Cole | 2 hr |
| Jun 6, 12:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Moniteau | 63 min |
| Jun 6, 1:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Gasconade, Osage | 3 hr |
| Jun 6, 1:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Boone, Cole, Cooper, Moniteau | 2 hr |
| Jun 6, 1:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Callaway | 2 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 1993Every flash flood warning in 1993
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.