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Flash Flood Warning 87, NWS Kansas City, MO

July 8, 1993Saline County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 8, 1993, 11:36 AM CDT for Saline County, Missouri. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 8, 1993, 11:36 AM CDT (16:36 UTC)
Expired
Jul 8, 1993, 9:45 PM CDT
In force
10 hr
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Saline County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 211 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1993-07-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2150 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1993-07-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 227 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
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

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, 4 hours 58 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, 4 hours 56 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 7, 8:10 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXCallaway, Gasconade, Montgomery, Osage12 hr
Jul 8, 9:04 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXLivingston6 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.