Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 53, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 6, 1993, 6:05 PM CDT for Cole County, Moniteau County, Missouri. It was in force for 115 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 1993, 6:05 PM CDT (23:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 1993, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cole County, MO, Moniteau County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 221 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
- 633 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCOU 062308 FFWCOU MOC015-051-135-141-159-070100- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 605 PM CDT TUE JUL 6 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL MISSOURI ...BENTON COUNTY...COLE COUNTY...MONITEAU COUNTY ...MORGAN COUNTY...PETTIS COUNTY AT 600 PM THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED FALL ACROSS CENTRAL MISSOURI IN A 20 MILE WIDE BAND FROM COLUMBIA REGIONAL AIRPORT TO ABOUT SEDALIA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR BUT CONTINUED TO REDEVELOP OVER THE SAME AREAS. MORGAN COUNTY REPORTS MANY ROADS ARE UNDER WATER AND HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED TO FALL. THE PETTIS COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTS HIGHWAY 65 ON THE PETTIS-BENTON COUNTY LINE IMPASSABLE...AND MONITEAU COUNTY WAS RECEIVING TORRENTIAL RAIN AND SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING AT 555 PM. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN CARS AND TRUCKS. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS A FLOODED ROADWAY. A FEW INCHES OF RAPIDLY MOVING WATER CAN SWEEP AWAY A CAR. IF YOUR CAR BECOMES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER...GET OUT AND MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. 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, Jul 6, 12:40 PM CDT, 5 hours 25 minutes before
KSZ016-MOZ001-002-004-005-008-009-013-061845- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 1240 PM CDT TUE JUL 6 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE OVER EASTCENTRAL KANSAS AND WESTCENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 1230 PM...RADAR INDICATED THAT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED OVER WESTCENTRAL MISSOURI AND EASTCENTRAL KANSAS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN BEING LOCATED AT JUST SOUTHEAST OF NEVADA MISSOURI... NEAR STOCKTON...AND ALSO NEAR OLATHE KANSAS AT ALONG INTERSTATE 35 AND JUST NORTHWEST OF CHANUTE KANSAS...NEAR IOLA. IN ADDITION...A LARGE AREA OF RAIN EXTENDED ACROSS NORTHCENTRAL AND CENTRAL MISSOURI. THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE WARY OF HIGH WATER...DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH WATER COVERED ROADWAYS. PEDESTRIANS SHOULD AVOID CREEKS AND WATERWAYS SINCE WATERS COULD RISE QUICKLY AND FLOOD DUE TO THE RAINSOAKED GROUND. EVERSOLE
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 12:43 PM CDT, 5 hours 22 minutes before
KSZ016-MOZ001-002-004-005-008-009-013-061845- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 1240 PM CDT TUE JUL 6 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE OVER EASTCENTRAL KANSAS AND WESTCENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 1230 PM...RADAR INDICATED THAT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED OVER WESTCENTRAL MISSOURI AND EASTCENTRAL KANSAS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN BEING LOCATED AT JUST SOUTHEAST OF NEVADA MISSOURI... NEAR STOCKTON...AND ALSO NEAR OLATHE KANSAS AT ALONG INTERSTATE 35 AND JUST NORTHWEST OF CHANUTE KANSAS...NEAR IOLA. IN ADDITION...A LARGE AREA OF RAIN EXTENDED ACROSS NORTHCENTRAL AND CENTRAL MISSOURI. THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE WARY OF HIGH WATER...DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH WATER COVERED ROADWAYS. PEDESTRIANS SHOULD AVOID CREEKS AND WATERWAYS SINCE WATERS COULD RISE QUICKLY AND FLOOD DUE TO THE RAINSOAKED GROUND^. EVERSOLE
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 4:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
KSZ016-MOZ001-002-004-005-008-009-013-062245- FLOOD STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 430 PM CDT TUE JUL 6 1993 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST MISSOURI AND MOST OF EAST KANSAS FOR TONIGHT... AT 425 PM...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE LOCATED ACROSS WEST CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL KANSAS. MAINLY FROM NEAR WARRENSBURG TO CLINTON TO GARNETT KANSAS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 TO 35 MILES AN HOUR. BECAUSE OF THE HEAVY RAINS THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS MORNING FLASH FLOOD WARNING ARE IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN MIAMI AND LINN COUNTIES OF KANSAS AND SOUTHERN CASS COUNTY OF MISSOURI UNTIL 715 PM AND FOR HENRY AND BATES COUNTIES OF MISSOURI UNTIL 745 PM. THE HEAVY RAINS HAVE CAUSED FLOODING OF MANY ROADWAYS...UNDERPASSES AND STREAMS. REMEMBER...DO NOT DRIVE OR WALK THROUGH HIGH WATER. PERSONS LIVING IN LOW LYING AREAS PRONE TO FLOODING SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND SHOULD THE NEED ARISE. RAH
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 4:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
KSZ016-MOZ001-002-004-005-008-009-013-062245- FLOOD STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 430 PM CDT TUE JUL 6 1993 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST MISSOURI AND MOST OF EAST KANSAS FOR TONIGHT... AT 425 PM...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE LOCATED ACROSS WEST CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL KANSAS. MAINLY FROM NEAR WARRENSBURG TO CLINTON TO GARNETT KANSAS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 TO 35 MILES AN HOUR. BECAUSE OF THE HEAVY RAINS THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS MORNING FLASH FLOOD WARNING ARE IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN MIAMI AND LINN COUNTIES OF KANSAS AND SOUTHERN CASS COUNTY OF MISSOURI UNTIL 715 PM AND FOR HENRY AND BATES COUNTIES OF MISSOURI UNTIL 745 PM. THE HEAVY RAINS HAVE CAUSED FLOODING OF MANY ROADWAYS...UNDERPASSES AND STREAMS. REMEMBER...DO NOT DRIVE OR WALK THROUGH HIGH WATER. PERSONS LIVING IN LOW LYING AREAS PRONE TO FLOODING SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND SHOULD THE NEED ARISE. RAH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 9:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cass | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 9:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cass | 4 hr |
| Jul 6, 11:03 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Henry | 4 hr |
| Jul 6, 11:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | St. Clair | 4 hr |
| Jul 6, 3:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cass | 4 hr |
| Jul 6, 3:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Bates | 4 hr |
| Jul 6, 4:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Henry | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 6:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Benton, Morgan, Pettis | 115 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.