Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Apr 28, 1994, 2:54 AM CDT for 5 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 28, 1994, 2:54 AM CDT (07:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 1994, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Camden County, MO, Maries County, MO, Miller County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Osage County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 852 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 493 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 792 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCOU 280757 FFWCOU MOC015-029-125-131-141-151-073-281300- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 254 AM CDT THU APR 28 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL MISSOURI ...BENTON COUNTY...CAMDEN COUNTY...MARIES COUNTY ...MILLER COUNTY...MORGAN COUNTY...OSAGE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...GASCONADE COUNTY AT 250 AM THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN IN THE SOUTH PART OF CENTRAL MISSOURI FROM TRUMAN LAKE AND THE LAKE OF THE OZARKS EAST TO ROSEBUD AND OWENSVILLE IN GASCONADE COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE OVER THESE SAME AREAS EARLY THIS MORNING. SEVERAL INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN IN SOME AREAS AND ANY MORE RAIN WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. KENNEDY
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 55 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 | Bates, Henry, St. Clair | 3 hr |
| Apr 28, 1:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Jackson | 6 hr |
| Apr 28, 1:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Camden, Miller | 52 min |
| Apr 28, 2:36 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Bates, Henry, St. Clair | 4 hr |
| Apr 28, 2:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Clay, Platte | 5 hr |
| Apr 28, 2:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Benton | 5 hr |
| Apr 28, 2:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Gasconade | 5 hr |
| Apr 28, 3:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Benton, Morgan | 43 min |
| Apr 28, 3:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | St. Clair | 36 min |
| Apr 28, 7:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Pulaski | 117 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 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.