Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 86, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 8, 1993, 9:04 AM CDT for Livingston County, Missouri. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 1993, 9:04 AM CDT (14:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1993, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Livingston County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 2150 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 700 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 227 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 7.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMCI 081431 COR FFWMCI MOC117-082000- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 904 AM CDT THU JUL 8 1993 ...CORRECTION TO ROAD CLOSURE... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY MISSOURI HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI ...LIVINGSTON COUNTY WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THAT THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN HAVE DROPPED 1.5 TO 2.5 INCHES OF RAINFALL OVER MOST OF LIVINGSTON COUNTY THIS MORNING. HIGHWAY 36 ALONG THE GRAND RIVER WEST OF CHILLICOTHE WAS CLOSED DUE TO A LEVEE BREAK. ALSO HIGHWAY 65 SOUTH OF CHILLICOTHE IS CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER. NUMEROUS OTHER ROADS OVER THE SOUTHWEST PARTS OF THE COUNTY WERE ALSO CLOSED THIS MORNING. MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. &
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 8, 6:38 AM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before
MOZ001-002-004-005-008-009-081245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 638 AM CDT THU JUL 8 1993 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THIS MORNING FOR NORTHEAST KANSAS...AND A PORTION OF NORTHWEST AND NORTHCENTRAL MISSOURI NORTH OF A LINE FROM ST JOSEPH TO UNIONVILLE.... AT 635 AM...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE IN NORTHEAST KANSAS...NORTHWEST MISSOURI AND SOUTHWEST IOWA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS...CONTAINING VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE IN A NARROW BAND FROM 40 MILES NORTH OF ST JOSEPH TO ST JOSEPH TO JUST SOUTHEAST OF TOPEKA. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. . THE STRONGER STORMS WILL CONTAIN A BRIEF PERIOD OF VERY HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MILES AN HOUR. THE BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS JUST EAST OF THE TOPEKA AREA WILL REACH THE KANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN AREA BETWEEN 800 AND 900 AM THIS MORNING. SOME MINOR STREET FLOODING COULD OCCUR IN THE LOCAL AREA AND MOTORISTS DRIVING DURING THE LATER PART OF THE MORNING RUSH HOUR SHOULD USE EXTREME CAUTION.
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 6:40 AM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
MOZ001-002-004-005-008-009-081245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 638 AM CDT THU JUL 8 1993 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THIS MORNING FOR NORTHEAST KANSAS...AND A PORTION OF NORTHWEST AND NORTHCENTRAL MISSOURI NORTH OF A LINE FROM ST JOSEPH TO UNIONVILLE.... AT 635 AM...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE IN NORTHEAST KANSAS...NORTHWEST MISSOURI AND SOUTHWEST IOWA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS...CONTAINING VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE IN A NARROW BAND FROM 40 MILES NORTH OF ST JOSEPH TO ST JOSEPH TO JUST SOUTHEAST OF TOPEKA. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. . THE STRONGER STORMS WILL CONTAIN A BRIEF PERIOD OF VERY HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MILES AN HOUR. THE BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS JUST EAST OF THE TOPEKA AREA WILL REACH THE KANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN AREA BETWEEN 800 AND 900 AM THIS MORNING. SOME MINOR STREET FLOODING COULD OCCUR IN THE LOCAL AREA AND MOTORISTS DRIVING DURING THE LATER PART OF THE MORNING RUSH HOUR SHOULD USE EXTREME CAUTION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 8:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Callaway, Gasconade, Montgomery, Osage | 12 hr |
| Jul 8, 11:36 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Saline | 10 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.