Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 25, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Apr 28, 1994, 7:48 AM CDT for Pulaski County, Missouri. It was in force for 117 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 28, 1994, 7:48 AM CDT (12:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 1994, 9:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 117 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pulaski County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 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
- 276 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -219 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 531 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 421 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 444 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 8.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCOU 281251 FFWCOU MOC169-281445- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 748 AM CDT THU APR 28 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL MISSOURI ...PULASKI COUNTY HEAVY RAINS ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF OF CENTRAL MISSOURI OVERNIGHT HAS CAUSED MANY ROADS TO GO UNDER WATER IN PULASKI COUNTY. ROUTE H NEAR CROCKER WAS UNDER WATER. ROUTE 133 NORTH OF INTERSTATE 44 ALONG THE GASCONADE RIVER WAS ALSO UNDER WATER. THE RAIN WAS BREAKING UP ACROSS THAT AREA...AND ANY MORE RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL BE SCATTERED THIS MORNING. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS 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. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. LA GREE/BLANCHARD
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 | Camden, Maries, Miller, Morgan, Osage | 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 |
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.