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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 7, 1996Cooper County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 7, 1996, 8:43 AM CDT for Cooper County, Missouri. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 7, 1996, 8:43 AM CDT (13:43 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 1996, 12:00 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Cooper County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:45 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 (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 233 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 896 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 542 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 144 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMCI 071343
FFWMCI
MOC053-071700-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
843 AM CDT TUE MAY 7 1996

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR
  COOPER COUNTY - CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL NOON CDT
 
* CAUSE AND EFFECT
    VERY HEAVY RAINS HAVE AGAIN FALLEN ACROSS THE COUNTY.  WITH THE
    SATURATED GROUND AND SWOLLEN RIVERS...FLOODING IS AGAIN LIKELY.

* FORECAST CONDITIONS
    ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA
    THROUGH NOON.  EXPECT SOME ROADS TO BE THREATENED BY THE HIGH
    WATER...INCLUDING HIGHWAY 135...HIGHWAY 5...HIGHWAY 41...AND
    COUNTY ROAD N.

DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS!  THE WATER MAY BE HIGHER THAN
YOU THINK.  REMEMBER...MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.

WELVAERT

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 7, 2:54 AM CDT, 5 hours 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 7, 2:54 AM CDT, 5 hours 49 minutes before

NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
255 AM CDT TUE MAY 7 1996

HERE WE GO AGN...LATEST RAMSDIS LOOPS INDCG MCS DVLPG IN WRN KS ALG
850 BNDRY AHD OF 700 MB SHRTWV MOVG INTO HI PLAINS WITH TRAING ALG
BNDRY IN NRN MO BGN TO DCRS.  'PRE MCS SOAK' RAINFALL AMNTS IN NRN MO
OVR 5 INCHES FM LIVINSTON TO LINN TO MACON COUNTIES.

NGM AND AVN GRIDDED DATA FAIRLY CLOSE AT 12Z IN SHOWG 850 THETA-E RDG
AXIS FM NE KS INTO CNTRL MO WHILE ETA OUT TO LUNCH.  XPC MCS TO DVLP
MORE SWD AND MOV ALG AXIS THRU CWA AFT 600 AM WITH RAINFALL CONTG INTO
AFTN.  PER DISCUSSION WITH STL...EXTDG CVRG OF FFA TDA OVR ENTR CWA
LOOKS GOOD.

ANOTHER SHRTWV THEN IN CONTINUOUS STREAM ROUHGLY 24HRS APART EVIDENT
ALG CA COAST PER 00Z UA.  THO MCS DVLMT TNGT FARTHER N AS SFC FNT
LIFTS INTO NRN MO...STILL XPC DVLPMT AHD OF DRYLINE.

MCI TT 65/61 +6

DJV

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 7, 2:46 AM CDT, 5 hours 57 minutes before

KSZ057-060-103>105-MOZ028-029-037-043-053-070830-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
246 AM CDT TUE MAY 7 1996

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 309 CANCELLED FOR THE KANSAS
CITY METRO AND SOUTH OF THE METRO...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4AM HAS BEEN
CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING KANSAS AND MISSOURI COUNTIES...

LEAVENWORTH...PLATTE....WYANDOTTE...CLAY....JOHNSON
...JACKSON...MIAMI...CASS...BATES...LINN

ALTHOUGH THE SEVERE THREAT HAS ENDED FOR THE NEXT FEW
HOURS...REDEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE STORMS IN CENTRAL KANSAS WILL LIKELY
AFFECT THE METRO AREA AGAIN BETWEEN 5AM AND 8AM.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERtICIAL RADIO AND TELEVISION
FOR FURTHER WEATHER UPDATES.

SMITH

Special weather statement, May 7, 3:28 AM CDT, 5 hours 15 minutes before

MOZ030>033-038>040-044>046-054-070915-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
325 AM CDT TUE MAY 7 1996

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 309 CANCELLED FOR PART OF
WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MISSOURI...

THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE NO LONGER IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WATCH NUMBER 309...

RAY...CARROLL...CHARITON...RANDOLPH...LAFAYETTE...SALINE...HOWARD
...JOHNSON...PETTIS...COOPER...HENRY

THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS DIMINISHED ACROSS THE AREA
DURING THE PAST HOUR.

ANOTHER AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EASTWARD
ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS...AND WILL LIKELY MOVE BACK ACROSS THE AREA
BETWEEN 7AM AND 10AM THIS MORNING. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY
BECOME SEVERE.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERICIAL RADIO AND
TELEVISION FOR ANY FURTHER WEATHER UPDATES...WATCHES OR WARNINGS.

SMITH

Special weather statement, May 7, 6:01 AM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-081200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
600 AM CDT TUE MAY 7 1996

...MORE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN EARLY THIS MORNING AND LATE
TONIGHT...

FORECAST...A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED OVER
WESTERN AND CENTRAL KANSAS OVERNIGHT...AND WILL MOVE THROUGH THE
AREA THIS MORNING. ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS IS LIKELY TO
DEVELOP TONIGHT. THE BEST THREAT EXTENDS SOUTH OF A ST JOSEPH TO
MACON LINE AND NORTH OF AN OLATHE TO SEDALIA LINE. THE PRIMARY
THREAT IS HEAVY RAINFALL...FURTHER COMPLICATING FLOOD PROBLEMS
ACROSS THE REGION. LARGE HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH SOME OF THESE
STORMS...MAINLY ALONG THE SOUTHERN EDGE OF THE ABOVE AREA.

DISCUSSION...AFTER THE ROUND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS
MORNING...STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL PUSH A WARM FRONT NORTH OF
THE KANSAS CITY AREA TODAY AND TONIGHT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ALONG AND NEAR THIS FRONT AS IT PROGRESSES
NORTHWARD. LOCAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF AN ADDITIONAL TWO TO THREE
INCHES ARE LIKELY...WITH GENERAL COVERAGE OF AN INCH OR MORE ACROSS
NORTHEAST KANSAS AND WESTERN MISSOURI.

JHV

The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 9:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Linn, Livingston	4 hr
May 6, 11:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Macon	4 hr
May 7, 1:28 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Linn, Livingston	3 hr
May 7, 2:45 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Macon	2 hr
May 7, 10:52 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Pettis	4 hr
May 7, 11:33 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper, Howard	3 hr
May 7, 12:49 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Randolph	3 hr

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.