Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 16, 1995, 3:28 AM CDT for Miami County, Kansas; Cass County, Missouri. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 1995, 3:28 AM CDT (08:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1995, 7:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Miami County, KS, Cass County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:28 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -819 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1753 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 318 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMCI 160828 FFWMCI KSC121-MOC037-161230- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 328 AM CDT TUE MAY 16 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS ...MIAMI COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...CASS COUNTY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THE SAME AREAS WHICH HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED SIGNIFICANT RAINS. RADAR ESTIMATES AN AVERAGE OF ONE INCH PER HOUR WITH THESE STORMS. 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 H&IGHER GROUND.
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 15, 8:42 PM CDT, 6 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 15, 8:42 PM CDT, 6 hours 46 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 830 PM CDT MON MAY 15 1995 SATL INDCS NEARLY ANCHORED CNVTN OVR W KS IS SPRDG CI ACRS ST. H2O IMAGERY INDCS KS CNVTN FIRING AS JET MAX ROTATES INTO SRN ROCKIES. CURNT FCSTS IN LINE WITH CHC IN FCST OVRNGT AS LOW LVL CNVG PROGD TO INCR AND PSBLTY OF RESIDUAL CNVTN FROM KS ACTIVITY AS WELL. MCS DVLPG OVR OK PNHDL WILL LIKELY MOVE EAST AGAIN TNGT AS TKNS ANDf OLD E-W BNDRY SHOULD LEAD ACTVTY ALNG RED RVR...THUS KEEPING RNFL FROM THIS COMPLEX TO S. OVRNGT LOWS WILL BE MILD WITH CLDS AND WINDS. BROWNING
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 2:14 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Wyandotte | 4 hr |
| May 16, 2:14 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Johnson | 4 hr |
| May 16, 1:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 64 min |
| May 16, 1:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay | 52 min |
| May 16, 2:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Lafayette | 45 min |
| May 16, 3:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn, Macon | 57 min |
| May 16, 3:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis, Saline | 66 min |
| May 16, 4:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Henry, Johnson, Pettis | 4 hr |
| May 16, 4:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Henry | 26 min |
| May 16, 4:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Benton | 49 min |
| May 16, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | DeKalb | 33 min |
| May 16, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Daviess | 69 min |
| May 16, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Sullivan | 61 min |
| May 16, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay | 47 min |
| May 16, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass, Jackson | 60 min |
| May 16, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Macon | 51 min |
| May 16, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Lafayette | 68 min |
| May 16, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis | 56 min |
| May 16, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Holt | 44 min |
| May 16, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard | 59 min |
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.