Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 17, 1995, 4:03 AM CDT for Camden County, Miller County, Missouri. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 17, 1995, 4:03 AM CDT (09:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 1995, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Camden County, MO, Miller County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:06 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
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 1137 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -128 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1097 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCOU 170905 FFWCOU MOC029-131-171300- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 403 AM CDT WED MAY 17 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL MISSOURI ...CAMDEN COUNTY...MILLER COUNTY AT 4 AM THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAIN IN MILLER AND CAMDEN COUNTIES. THE GREATEAST THREAT OF FLOODING THROUGH 6 AM WILL BE IN THE WESTERN HALF OF MILLER COUNTY AND IN NORTHERN CAMDEN COUNTY IN THE IMMEDIATE VICINITY OF THE LAKE OF THE OZARKS. 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. 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.
NWS Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at May 17, 3:47 AM CDT, 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 17, 3:47 AM CDT, 16 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 340 AM CDT WED MAY 17 1995 NO TIME FOR LONG DISC WITH YET ANOTHER ROUND OF SVR HEADED FOR MKC AREA...FEELS LIKE A BOXING MATCH WITH ALL THESE ROUNDS OF SVR. SVR/FF WATCHES IN EFFECT FOR PTNS OF FA. LAST MCS HAS LAID OUT AN OUTFLOW BNDRY ACRS EXTRM SRN PTN OF FA BUT STG H8 JET HAS REFORMED OVR CNTRL KS WITH NEXT ROUND OF SVR AND OUTFLOW BNDRY MAY LFT N. UPR SYS NR 4 CRNRS AND LFTG OUT. AMS AND GRND SATURATED. NOT AS MUCH OF A TRPCL PLUME PER STLT IMAGERY BUT PLENTY OF JUICE AT LOW LVLS WILL CONT FLOODING THREAT. TEMPS WONT MOV MUCH TODAY AND WONDER HOW MCU OF THE CDR AIR WILL MAKE IT IN BY THU MRNG.^ LOOKS VERY BUSY HERE TODAY WITH STAFFING SHORTAGE. MCI 69/54 ++ JULY
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 17, 2:10 AM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
210 AM CDT WED MAY 17 1995
...STORM REPORTS FOR THE EVENING HOURS OF MAY 16 AND EARLY MORNING
HOURS OF THE 17TH...
TIME/DATE LOCATION/COUNTY STATE EVENT/REMARKS
05/16/95
949 PM CDT JOHNSON CO KS 50-60 MPH WINDS IN EDGERTON
05/16/95
955 PM CDT JOHNSON CO KS BASEBALL SIZE HAIL 5 WEST
OF SPRINGHILL
05/16/95
1004 PM CDT JOHNSON CO KS 70-80 MPH WINDS AT 199TH AND
CLARE
05/16/95
1008 PM CDT MIAMI CO KS GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AND 50-60
MPH WINDS
05/16/95 MIAMI CO KS TORNADO AT 215 AND 69 NEAR
1020 PM CDT SPRINGHILL
05/16/95 MIAMI CO KS GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL JUST NORTH
1023 PM CDT OF LEWISBURG
05/16/95 CASS CO MO GOLBALL SIZE HAIL IN BELTON
1031 PM CDT
05/16/95 CASS CO MO GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL 2 WEST OF
1036 PM CDT PECULIAR
05/16/95 CASS CO MO BASEBALL SIZE HAIL P AND HWY 7
1058 PM CDT NEAR PLEASANT HILL
05/16/95 JOHNSON CO MO NICKEL SIZE HAIL 5 NORTH
1130 PM CDT WARRENSBURG
05/16/95 LAFAYETTE CO MO POWER LINES AND SIGNS DOWN
1130 PM CDT
05/16/95 JOHNSON CO MO DIME SIZE HAIL 2 NORTH OF
1135 PM CDT OLATHE
05/17/95 JACKSON CO MO QUARTER SIZE HAIL IN LEES
1203 AM CDT SUMMIT
05/17/95 MIAMI CO KS 1 INCH HAIL AT HILLSDALE
1210 AM CDT LAKE
05/17/95 MIAMI CO KS GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL HILLSDALE
1215 AM CDT LAKE
05/17/95 SALINE CO MO GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AT SWEET
113 AM CDT SPRINGS
05/17/95 BATES CO MO TREES DOWN ON HWY 18
117 AM CDT
GAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 62 min |
| May 16, 10:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Cass | 52 min |
| May 16, 10:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 42 min |
| May 16, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Lafayette | 65 min |
| May 16, 11:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis, Saline | 51 min |
| May 16, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 46 min |
| May 17, 12:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates, Cass | 54 min |
| May 17, 12:52 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Bates, Cass | 38 min |
| May 17, 1:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Henry | 59 min |
| May 17, 1:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard, Pettis | 42 min |
| May 17, 2:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Benton | 41 min |
| May 17, 2:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper, Henry, Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis, Saline | 6 hr |
| May 17, 2:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cass, Jackson | 6 hr |
| May 17, 2:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Bates | 6 hr |
| May 17, 2:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Howard | 6 hr |
| May 17, 2:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Morgan | 42 min |
| May 17, 2:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Benton, Morgan | 4 hr |
| May 17, 3:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Miller | 48 min |
| May 17, 4:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Platte | 40 min |
| May 17, 4:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Maries | 4 hr |
| May 17, 8:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Benton | 44 min |
| May 17, 8:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Morgan | 35 min |
| May 17, 8:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Miller | 51 min |
| May 17, 9:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Miller | 30 min |
| May 17, 9:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Maries | 45 min |
| May 17, 9:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | St. Clair | 44 min |
| May 17, 9:49 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | St. Clair | 38 min |
| May 17, 10:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Benton | 36 min |
| May 17, 10:21 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Benton | 25 min |
| May 17, 10:21 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Hickory | 14 min |
| May 17, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates | 70 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 1995Every flash flood warning in 1995
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.