Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Apr 11, 1994, 8:45 AM CDT for Pulaski County, Missouri. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 11, 1994, 8:45 AM CDT (13:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 11, 1994, 11:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pulaski County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 520 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 575 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 872 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCOU 111346 RRA FFWCOU MOC131-135-141-151-159-169-139-111645- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 845 AM CDT MON APR 11 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL MISSOURI ...MILLER COUNTY...MONITEAU COUNTY...MORGAN COUNTY ...OSAGE COUNTY...PETTIS COUNTY...PULASKI COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...MONTGOMERY COUNTY AT 830AM CDT RAIN CONTINUED TO FALL OVER NEARLY ALL OF CENTRAL MISSOURI. FLOODING HAS ALREADY OCCURRED IN MANY PLACES AND FURTHER RAINFALL WILL ONLY SERVE TO AGGRAVATE THE SITUATION. NUMEROUS HIGHWAYS ACROSS MID-MISSOURI HAVE BEEN CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER. THE RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO BE HEAVY AT TIMES AND WILL KEEP FALLING ON THE SATURATED GROUND THE REST OF THE MORNING. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT. IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERPE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS SHOULD AVOID CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS. REAUGH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 11:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Bates, Henry, St. Clair | 6 hr |
| Apr 11, 12:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cole, Maries, Miller, Moniteau, Osage | 4 hr |
| Apr 11, 12:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Audrain, Boone, Callaway | 4 hr |
| Apr 11, 12:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Benton | 4 hr |
| Apr 11, 1:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Camden | 3 hr |
| Apr 11, 4:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Hickory | 4 hr |
| Apr 11, 4:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Howard, Saline | 4 hr |
| Apr 11, 4:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Pettis | 4 hr |
| Apr 11, 4:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Benton, Camden, Miller | 4 hr |
| Apr 11, 4:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cole, Moniteau, Osage | 4 hr |
| Apr 11, 4:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Maries | 4 hr |
| Apr 11, 4:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Audrain, Boone, Callaway | 4 hr |
| Apr 11, 5:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Morgan | 3 hr |
| Apr 11, 6:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Bates, Henry, St. Clair | 4 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.