Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 57, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 6, 1993, 8:01 PM CDT for 4 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 119 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 1993, 8:01 PM CDT (01:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 1993, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 119 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cole County, MO, Miller County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Morgan County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 1998 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 974 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 8.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCOU 070103 FFWCOU MOC015-051-131-135-141-159-070300- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 801 PM CDT TUE JUL 6 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL MISSOURI ...NORTHERN BENTON COUNTY...COLE COUNTY...MILLER COUNTY ...MONITEAU COUNTY...MORGAN COUNTY...SOUTHERN PETTIS COUNTY AT 755 PM THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAIN CONTINUED TO PLAGUE CENTRAL MISSOURI FROM 40 MILES EAST OF JEFFERSON CITY TO ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTH OF SEDALIA IN A 20 MILE WIDE BAND. FLASH FLOODING WAS REPORTED IN ALL OF THE WARNED COUNTIES WITH NUMEROUS ROADS UNDER WATER AND LOW WATER BRIDGES OVERFLOWING. HIGHWAY 87 FROM MILLER COUNTY UP THROUGH SOUTHERN MONITEAU COUNTY WAS UNDER WATER IN A COUPLE OF PLACES AND HIGHWAY 65 BETWEEN SOUTHERN PETTIS AND NORTHERN BENTON COUNTIES WAS CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER. MORE THUNDERSTORMS WERE EXPECTED TO ROLL THROUGH THIS AREA BETWEEN 800 PM AND 1000 PM THIS EVENING. 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
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, 4:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 31 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, 3 hours 21 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, 7:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Callaway, Gasconade, Osage | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 7:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Boone | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 7:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Maries | 62 min |
| Jul 6, 8:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Benton, Pettis | 119 min |
| Jul 6, 9:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Gasconade, Maries, Osage | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 9:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Callaway | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 9:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cole, Miller, Moniteau, Morgan | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 9:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Benton, Pettis | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 11:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Gasconade, Maries, Osage | 116 min |
| Jul 6, 11:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Callaway | 116 min |
| Jul 6, 11:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Jackson | 10 hr |
| Jul 6, 11:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Boone | 2 hr |
| Jul 7, 12:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cole, Miller, Moniteau | 115 min |
| Jul 7, 12:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Pettis | 115 min |
| Jul 7, 1:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Gasconade, Maries, Miller, Osage | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 1:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Morgan, Pettis | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 1:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Boone, Cole, Moniteau | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 1:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Callaway | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 1:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Audrain, Montgomery | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 1:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard, Saline | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 4:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Audrain, Boone, Chariton, Randolph | 2 hr |
| Jul 7, 4:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Callaway | 2 hr |
| Jul 7, 6:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Callaway, Gasconade, Maries, Miller, Montgomery, Osage | 115 min |
| Jul 7, 6:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Audrain, Randolph | 115 min |
| Jul 7, 9:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Audrain, Randolph | 55 min |
| Jul 7, 9:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Callaway | 55 min |
| Jul 7, 9:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Andrew, Nodaway | 4 hr |
| Jul 7, 9:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Chariton, Saline | 2 hr |
| Jul 7, 9:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper, Morgan, Pettis | 2 hr |
| Jul 7, 10:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Jackson | 8 hr |
| Jul 7, 10:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis, Saline | 39 min |
| Jul 7, 10:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Audrain, Boone | 49 min |
| Jul 7, 12:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Moniteau | 36 min |
| Jul 7, 12:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Boone, Cole | 30 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.