Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 6, 1993, 12:12 PM CDT for Moniteau County, Missouri. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 1993, 12:12 PM CDT (17:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1993, 1:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Moniteau County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 220 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 061713 FFWCOU MOC135-061815- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 1212 PM CDT SUN JUN 6 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 115 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL MISSOURI ...NORTHERN MONITEAU COUNTY AT 1205 PM...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR TIPTON...MOVGING EAST AT 25 MPH. TORRENTIAL RAINS ASSOCIATED WITH THE STORM WILL PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING AS IT MOVES OVER ALREADY SATURATED GROUND IN NORTHERN MONITEAU COUNTY. IF YOU LIVE IN AN AREA PRONE TO FLOODING...MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. 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. PERLOW
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, 9:35 AM CDT, 2 hours 37 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, 2 hours 34 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
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 10:40 AM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
MOZ001-002-004-005-008-009-061635- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 1040 AM CDT SUN JUN 6 1993 AT 1030 AM...SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN NORTHEAST KANSAS... NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI AND ACROSS AOUTHERN IOWA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN KANSAS...JUST TO THE WEST OF THE CITY OF TONGANOXIE AND WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH AND DEADLY LIGHNING AND HEAVY RAIN. PEOPLE IN THE PATHS OF THESE STORMS SHOULD MONITOR COMMERICAL TELEVISION AND RADIOS STATIONS FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THIS STORM. MORGAN
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 10:46 AM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
MOZ001-002-004-005-008-009-061635- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 1040 AM CDT SUN JUN 6 1993 AT 1030 AM...SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN NORTHEAST KANSAS... NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI AND ACROSS AOUTHERN IOWA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN KANSAS...JUST TO THE WEST OF THE CITY OF TONGANOXIE AND WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...WIN6DS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH AND DEADLY LIGHNING AND HEAVY RAIN. PEOPLE IN THE PATHS OF THESE STORMS SHOULD MONITOR COMMERICAL TELEVISION AND RADIOS STATIONS FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THIS STORM. MORGAN
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 11:15 AM CDT, 57 minutes before
MOZ004-005-008-009-013-KSZ016-061645- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 1115 AM CDT SUN JUN 6 1993 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHERN LEAVONWORTH COUNTY EXPIRED AT 1115 AM... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM CDT FOR PARTS OF NORTHEAST KANSAS AND NORTHERN AND CENTRAL MISSOURI...INCLUDING THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA AND ST. JOSEPH// AT 1115 AM...THE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR LEAVONWORTH COUNTY HAD MOVED INTO JOHNSON COUNTY KANSAS... AND HAD NOT DEVELOPED INTO A SEVERE STORM. WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MILES AND HOUR...AND PEA SIZE HAIL HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM...AND THESE CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE AS THE STORM TRACKS SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR THROUGH OLATHE...AND INTO NORTHWEST CASS COUNTY BY NOON. PERSONS ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PARTS OF THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS...AND MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. /DESTRI
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 11:21 AM CDT, 51 minutes before
MOZ004-005-008-009-013-KSZ016-061645- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 1115 AM CDT SUN JUN 6 1993 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHERN LEAVONWORTH COUNTY EXPIRED AT 1115 AM... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM CDT FOR PARTS OF NORTHEAST KANSAS AND NORTHERN AND CENTRAL MISSOURI...INCLUDING THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA AND ST. JOSEPH// AT 1115 AM...THE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR LEAVONWORTH COUNTY HAD MOVED INTO JOHNSON COUNTY KANSAS... AND HAD NOT DEVELOPED INTO A SEVERE STORM. WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MILES AND HOUR...AND PEA SIZE HAIL HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM...AND THESE CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE AS THE STORM TRACKS SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR THROUGH OLATHE...AND INTO NORTHWEST CASS COUNTY BY NOON. PERSONS ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PARTS OF THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS...AND MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. /DESTRI
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 | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Boone, Callaway, Cole, Moniteau | 67 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, 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 |
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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.