Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 26, 1995, 4:21 AM CDT for Pettis County, Missouri. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 1995, 4:21 AM CDT (09:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1995, 7:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pettis County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:23 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 733 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -88 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 260927 COR FFWMCI MOC159-261230- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 421 AM CDT MON JUN 26 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL MISSOURI ...PETTIS COUNTY AT 415 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER PARTS OF PETTIS COUNTY FROM 50 HIGHWAY AND POINTS SOUTH. UP TO 2 AND A HALF INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN IN SOME LOCATIONS DURING THE PAST 2 HOURS. THERE HAVE BEEN NUMEROUS REPORTS OF ROADWAY FLOODING. FLOODING WAS ALSO REPORTED IN THE CITY OF SEDALIA. THE HEAVY RAINSHOWERS WILL CONTINUE BETWEEN SEDALIA AND GREEN RIDGE BETWEEN 430 AM AND 6 AM. 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. BODNER &
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 Jun 26, 3:10 AM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 3:10 AM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 310 AM CDT MON JUN 26 1995 STLT AND PROFILER WNDS AT 07Z INDICATES STACKED LO JUST S OF COU AND SLWLY MVNG EWD AS FCST BY MODELS. STLT AND 88-D DATA SHW WEAK DEFORMATION ZONE AND SOLID AREA OF R-/R OVER SRN HALF OF CWA. KEEPING AN EYE ON FFG...AN INCH OF R OVR PETTIS CO LAST HR. NGM SEEMS TO HAVE A GOOD HANDLE ON PCPN...BOTH LOCATION AND QPF. MSTR CNVGNC ON GRIDDED DATA SEEMS TO LN UP REASONABLY CLOSE TO PSN AND MVMNT OF R OVR WRN MO. R SHOULD CONT OVR METRO THRU RUSH HR AND OVR SE CWA THRU MOST OF AM. MAY CSDR SLITTING POPS HIGHER AM/LWR PM OVER NW MO TDY. LEAVE POPS HIGH ALL DAY E OF SZL. CNVCTV SHWS/TSTMS PSBL IN CYC/COLD FLOW AFT LATER TDY AND AGN ON TUE. WILL LEAN TWRDS COOLER FWC NUMBERS DUE TO CLDS/PCPN. MCI 73/62 73 BODNER
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.