Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 4, 1995, 3:28 AM CDT for Adair County, Missouri. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 1995, 3:28 AM CDT (08:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 1995, 7:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Adair County, MO
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 195 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:30 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
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 238 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
- 822 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1055 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 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 040826 FFWMCI MOC001-041230- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 328 AM CDT TUE JUL 4 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 NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI ...ADAIR COUNTY RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE MIDNIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE THROUGH AT LEAST 4 AM...INCREASING THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING. PEOPLE LIVING IN LOW LYING AREAS AND ALONG CREEKS AND STREAMS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR FLASH FLOODING. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. 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 Jul 3, 8:40 PM CDT, 6 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 8:40 PM CDT, 6 hours 48 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
840 PM CDT MON JUL 3 1995
THE INGREDIENTS ARE ALL THERE...BUT WILL THE CAP OVER ERN KS BE BROKEN?
ATM VERY UNSTBL OVR OK AND ERN KS ATTM. NEW SNDGS INDICATE CAPES IN
EXCESS OF 3000 J/KG OVR MUCH OF KS AND DELTA-T'S MUCH HIGHER AS WELL
DUE TO APCHG SHRT WV. ADAP DATA SHWS LI'S OF -10 TO -12 OVR ERN KS.
ATM HAS BEEN WEAKLY CAPPED LAST SVRL HRS AS INFLOW AND ERLY WNDS INTO
WRN KS TSTMS HAS WEAKENED THE LO LVL CNVGNC FIELD SOMEWHAT AND THERE HAS
BEEN NO SGFNT SYNOPTIC SCALE FORCING TO PRVD ANY LIFT ALG OK DRY LN. H7
MSTR ALSO CONTRIBUTED TO KEEPING TSTMS IN CHECK THRU THIS EVNG SO FAR.
BELIEVE THIS WILL CHANGE LTR TNT SHRT WV MVS OUT OF CO AND ACR KS...NEW
PROFILER AND UPR AIR INDICATING CYC FLW ADVANCING EWRD OVR N KS AND
DRIER AIR AT H7 MVNG OVR OK AND ERN KS. CRNT FCST LKS GOOD AND SEE NO
RSN TO MAKE CHNGS ATTM UNLESS WE WANT TO PLAY WITH POPS...ALTHOUGH
CAN'T SEE WHY POPS WOULD BE LWR ON TUE THAN TNT. BEST DYNAMICS FCST OVR
CWA TUE PM.
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Special weather statement, Jul 3, 9:35 PM CDT, 5 hours 53 minutes before
MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-043>046-053-054-067- KSZ025-057-060-102>105-040400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 935 PM CDT MON JUL 3 1995 ...THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA IS NOT IN THE TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 696... TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 696 FOR EASTERN KANSAS DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY OF THE COUNTIES IN THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA OR ANY OF THE COUNTIES OF THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF EASTERN KANSAS.... LINN...MIAMI...ATCHISON AND DONIPHAN. ONCE AGAIN THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA IS NOT IN TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 969. BODNER
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 9:40 PM CDT, 5 hours 48 minutes before
MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-043>046-053-054-067- KSZ025-057-060-102>105-040400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 935 PM CDT MON JUL 3 1995 ...THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA IS NOT IN THE TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 696... TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 696 FOR EASTERN KANSAS DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY OF THE COUNTIES IN THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA OR ANY OF THE COUNTIES OF THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF EASTERN KANSAFS.... LINN...MIAMI...ATCHISON AND DONIPHAN. ONCE AGAIN THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA IS NOT IN TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 969. BODNER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 45 min |
| Jul 3, 10:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell | 69 min |
| Jul 3, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Daviess | 42 min |
| Jul 3, 11:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay | 48 min |
| Jul 3, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Livingston | 69 min |
| Jul 3, 11:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll | 51 min |
| Jul 3, 11:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Harrison | 51 min |
| Jul 4, 12:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton, Linn | 51 min |
| Jul 4, 12:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Gentry, Worth | 42 min |
| Jul 4, 1:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Platte | 52 min |
| Jul 4, 1:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Gentry | 47 min |
| Jul 4, 2:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Buchanan, Clinton, DeKalb | 59 min |
| Jul 4, 2:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Daviess, Gentry, Harrison | 53 min |
| Jul 4, 2:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Gentry, Harrison | 4 hr |
| Jul 4, 3:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Adair | 45 min |
| Jul 4, 4:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Ray | 46 min |
| Jul 4, 4:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass, Jackson | 56 min |
| Jul 4, 4:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 40 min |
| Jul 4, 4:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Lafayette | 40 min |
| Jul 4, 4:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis, Saline | 61 min |
| Jul 4, 4:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton | 61 min |
| Jul 4, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Holt | 60 min |
| Jul 4, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew | 63 min |
| Jul 4, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Buchanan | 40 min |
| Jul 4, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn | 39 min |
| Jul 4, 5:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Linn | 36 min |
| Jul 4, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Howard | 49 min |
| Jul 4, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson | 59 min |
| Jul 4, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Randolph | 66 min |
| Jul 4, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Daviess | 61 min |
| Jul 4, 6:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Randolph | 43 min |
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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.