Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 6, 1993, 1:04 PM CDT for 4 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 1993, 1:04 PM CDT (18:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1993, 3:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Boone County, MO, Cole County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Moniteau County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 235 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 061813 FFWCOU MOC019-027-051-053-135-151-073-062100- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 104 PM CDT SUN JUN 6 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL MISSOURI ...BOONE COUNTY...CALLAWAY COUNTY...NORTHERN COLE COUNTY ...EASTERN COOPER COUNTY...NORTHERN MONITEAU COUNTY... ...NORTHERN GASCONADE COUNTY...NORTHERN OSAGE AT 100 PM THIS AFTERNOON HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL ACROSS CENTRAL MISSOURI FROM 20 MILES WEST OF COLUMBIA NEAR BOONVILLE TO COLUMBIA AND JEFFERSON CITY EASTWARD TO HERMANN. NEARLY 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN IN THESE AREAS SINCE THIS MORNING. NUMEROUS ROADS WERE REPORTED UNDER WATER IN THE WARNED AREA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR BUT WERE REDEVELOPING BACK TO THE WEST IN AN ALMOST TRAIN LIKE EFFECT ACROSS CENTRAL MISSOURI. HEAVY RAIN COULD EASILY DUMP ANOTHER 2 TO 3 INCHES ACROSS ALREADY SATURATED GROUND...KEEPING THE FLASH FLOOD THREAT ACROSS THE CENTRAL MISSOURI AREA UNTIL LATE THIS AFTERNOON. FLASH FLOODS CLAIM MORE LIVES THAN TORNADOES AND LIGHTNING COMBINED. NEVER TAKE FLOODING LIGHTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA...MAKE SURE YOU ARE ON HIGH GROUND THAT IS NOT LIKELY TO FLOOD. NEVER TRY TO DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED BRIDGES AND ROADS. LA GREE/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, 10:40 AM CDT, 2 hours 24 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, 2 hours 18 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, 1 hour 49 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, 1 hour 43 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, 12:40 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
MOZ004-005-008-009-013-KSZ016-061800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 1240 PM CDT SUN JUN 6 1993 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CASS COUNTY MISSOURI EXPIRED AT 1230 PM... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 345 CANCELLED FOR ST. JOSEPH AND THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA...REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM CDT FOR THAT PART OF WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI TO THE EAST AND SOUTH OF KANSAS CITY... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED UNTIL 6 PM THIS SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOR PARTS OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL MISSOURI INCLUDING THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA... AT 1230 PM...THE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CASS COUNTY MISSOURI HAD MOVED INTO SOUTH CENTRAL JOHNSON AND NORTHWEST HENRY COUNTIES...FROM JUST SOUTHEAST OF HOLDEN...TO NEAR URICH. 3/4 INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED AT BELTON MISSOURI AT 1140 AM...BUT NO OTHER SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED. . WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 45 MILES AN HOUR WERE REPORTED AT HARRISONVILLE... AND THESE WINDS MAY CONTINUE AS THE STORM MOVES SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORM WILL MOVE TO NEAR CLINTON BY 115 PM...AND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE 1 TO 1 1/2 INCHES OF RAIN IN AN HOUR. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND NUMEROUS SHOWERS WERE OCCURRING OVER PARTS OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL MISSOURI AND EXTREME EASTERN KANSAS...SOUTH OF A LINE FROM ST. JOSEPH TO JUST NORTH OF KIRKSVILLE MISSOURI. PERSONS TO THE SOUTHEAST OF KANSAS CITY SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...AND ALL CONCERNS IN WESTERN AND CENTRAL MISSOURI SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR HIGH WATER FROM HEAVY RAIN. DESTRI
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 12:48 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
MOZ004-005-008-009-013-KSZ016-061800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 1240 PM CDT SUN JUN 6 1993 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CASS COUNTY MISSOURI EXPIRED AT 1230 PM... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 345 CANCELLED FOR ST. JOSEPH AND THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA...REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM CDT FOR THAT PART OF WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI TO THE EAST AND SOUTH OF KANSAS CITY... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED UNTIL 6 PM THIS SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOR PARTS OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL MISSOURI INCLUDING THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA... AT 1230 PM...THE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CASS COUNTY MISSOURI HAD MOVED INTO SOUTH CENTRAL JOHNSON AND NORTHWEST HENRY COUNTIES...FROM JUST SOUTHEAST OF HOLDEN...TO NEAR URICH. 3/4 INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED AT BELTON MISSOURI AT 1140 AM...BUT NO OTHER SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED. . WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 45 MILES AN HOUR WERE REPORTED AT HARRISONVILLE... AND THESE WINDS MAY CONTINUE AS THE STORM MOVES SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORM WILL MOVE TO NEAR CLINTON BY 115 PM...AND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE 1 TO 1 1/2 INCHES OF RAIN IN AN HOUR. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND NUMEROUS SHOWERS WERE OCCURRING OVER PARTS OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL MISSOURI AND EXTREME EASTERN KANSAS...SOUTH OF A LINE FROM ST. JOSEPH TO JUST NORTH OF KIRKSVILLE MISSOURI. PERSONS TO THE SOUTHEAST OF pKANSAS CITY SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...AND ALL CONCERNS IN WESTERN AND CENTRAL MISSOURI SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR HIGH WATER FROM HEAVY RAIN. 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, 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 | 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.