Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Apr 28, 1994, 2:36 AM CDT for Linn County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 28, 1994, 2:36 AM CDT (07:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 1994, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Linn County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 519 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMCI 280738 FFWMCI KSC107-MOC013-083-185-281200- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 236 AM CDT THU APR 28 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS ...LINN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...BATES COUNTY...HENRY COUNTY...ST. CLAIR COUNTY ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS FOR LINN...BATES...ST CLAIR AND HENRY COUNTIES HAS BEEN EXTENDED... AT 230 AM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED TO DEVELOP OVER NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND THEN MOVE NORTHEAST INTO WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI. THE STORMS WERE PRODUCING UP TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN AN HOUR AND WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE REST OF TONIGHT. SEVERAL ROADS HAVE ALREADY BEEN EFFECTED BY HIGH WATER INCLUDING H HIGHWAY IN BATES COUNTY AND HIGHWAY 52 IN HENRY COUNTY. THE ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINS WILL ONLY ADD TO THE FLOODING. 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. RUNNELS
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, Apr 27, 10:59 PM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before
MOC013-037-047-083-095-165-177-185-KSC091-103-107-121-209-280220- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 11 PM CDT WED APR 27 1994 A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI AND EAST CENTRAL KANSAS FOR TONITE AND THURSDAY MORNING. RAINFALL AMOUNTS...ESTIMATED OFF RADAR...1 TO 2 INCHES EARLIER IN THE DAY AROUND THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA...WITH AN ADDITIONAL 1/2 INCH SINCE 9PM. 3 TO 4 INCHES HAVE FALLEN OVER SOUTHERN LINN COUNTY IN KANSAS AND OVER BATES...HENRY AND NORTHWEST ST CLAIR COUNTIES IN MISSOURI. /THATS ABOUT 65 MILES SOUTH OF KANSAS CITY\ . AT 11PM HEAVIER RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM NEAR CHANUTE ACROSS FT SCOTT KANSAS AND OVER TOWARD OSCEOLA MISSOURI. THERE IS LITTLE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER OVER THESE AREAS...BUT IN AREAS THAT ARE FLOOD PRONE CAUTION SHOULD BE TAKEN. STAY TUNED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 11:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Linn | 3 hr |
| Apr 28, 1:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Johnson | 6 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 1994Every flash flood warning in 1994
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.