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Flash Flood Warning 85, NWS Kansas City, MO

July 7, 19934 counties in Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 7, 1993, 8:10 PM CDT for 4 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 7, 1993, 8:10 PM CDT (01:10 UTC)
Expired
Jul 8, 1993, 8:15 AM CDT
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

Counties Callaway County, MO, Gasconade County, MO, Montgomery County, MO, Osage County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 270 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 1993-07-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 1993-07-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 99 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
99 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
223 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
5.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCOU 080155 COR
FFWCOU
MOC027-151-073-139-081315-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO
810 PM CDT WED JUL 7 1993

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

ALONG THE MISSOURI RIVER...IN CENTRAL MISSOURI

   ...SOUTHERN CALLAWAY COUNTY...NORTHERN OSAGE COUNTY

IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI

   ...NORTHERN GASCONADE COUNTY...SOUTHERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY

AT 8 PM...THE MISSOURI WAS LEVEL WITH THE TOP OF THE LEVEES ALONG
SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY. THE TOWN OF RHINELANDER WAS
BEEING EVACUATED BY COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCIES. A COMBINATION OF RAINWATER FROM MORNING STORMS AND RIVER WATER
WERE FLOODING PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN OSAGE...SOUTHERN CALLAWAY... AND
NORTHERN GASCONADE COUNTY.

FLOODED REGIONAL TRIBUTARIES WILL CONTRIBUTE HEAVILY TO A RAPID RISE IN
THE CENTRAL MISSOURI RIVER LEVELS.  THE MOST IMMEDIATE IMPACT WILL BE
FELT FROM JEFFERSON CITY...DOWNSTREAM TO HERMANN MISSOURI.  DO NOT COUNT
ON LEVEES TO HOLD BACK THE RIVER.  SEVERAL EARTHEN LEVEES HAVE ALREADY
BEEN BREACHED BY THE TURBULENT MISSOURI RIVER...AND ALTHOUGH EFFORTS ARE
UNDER WAY TO REPAIR THE LEVEES WITH SANDBAGS...IT MAY ONLY BUY A LITTLE
TIME.  ONCE THE WATER STARTS SPILLING OVER AND THROUGH THE LEVEES...THE
LOW LYING AREAS ALONG THE MISSOURI RIVER WILL FLOOD VERY QUICKLY.

RESIDENTS LIVING IN THE WARNED COUNTIES SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR RAPIDLY
RISING WATER AND TAKE THE NECESSARY ACTION TO PRESERVE LIFE AND
PROPERTY.

PERLOW

The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 8, 9:04 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXLivingston6 hr
Jul 8, 11:36 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXSaline10 hr

Nearby

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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.