Flash Flood Warning 55, NWS Kansas City, MO

Issued

Jul 6, 1993, 7:13 PM CDT (00:13 UTC)

Expired

Jul 6, 1993, 9:15 PM CDT

In force

2 hr

Issued by

NWS Kansas City, MO

Area

Whole counties

County Boone County, MO

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

000 
TTAA00 KCOU 070015
FFWCOU
MOC019-027-151-073-070215-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO
713 PM CDT TUE JUL 6 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  915 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL MISSOURI
 
   ...SOUTHERN BOONE COUNTY...SOUTHERN CALLAWAY COUNTY
   ...NORTHERN OSAGE COUNTY
 
IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI
 
   ...NORTHERN GASCONADE COUNTY
 
AT 705 PM THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED TO FALL ACROSS CENTRAL
MISSOURI IN A 20 MILE WIDE BAND FROM 40 MILES EAST OF JEFFERSON CITY
NEAR NEW HAVEN BACK THROUGH JEFFERSON CITY TO ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTH OF
SEDALIA NEAR COLE CAMP. AT 705 PM THE GASCONADE COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED
HIGHWAY 19 WAS UNDER WATER IN A COUPLE OF PLACES...WHILE IN SOUTHERN
CALLAWAY COUNTY HIGHWAY 94 NEAR PORTLAND HAD WATER OVER THE ROADWAY.
AT 645 PM A TRAILER COURT AT GRAVOIS MILLS IN MORGAN COUNTY WAS BEING
EVACUATED DUE TO RISING WATERS. THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO ROLL THROUGH
THESE SAME AREAS...WITH ANYWHERE FROM 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN FALLING OVER
ALREADY SATURDATED GROUND AND RISING CREEKS AND CULVERTS.
 
BE EXTRA CAREFUL AT NIGHT WHEN FLOOD WATERS ARE HARD TO SEE. IF
YOU SEE RISING WATER...MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND RIGHT AWAY. NEVER TRY
TO CROSS FLOODED ROADS OR BRIDGES IN YOUR CAR.
 
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

In the hours 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

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

Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 1993Every flash flood warning in 1993

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.