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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 26, 1995Pettis County, Missouri

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1995-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 44 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1995-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -135 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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

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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.