Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 7, 1996, 10:52 AM CDT for Pettis County, Missouri. It was in force for 4 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, 10:52 AM CDT (15:52 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 1996, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 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 15:52 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 12:00Z, 3.9 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 471 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 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 071552
FFWMCI
MOC159-072000-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
1052 AM CDT TUE MAY 7 1996
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR
PETTIS COUNTY - CENTRAL MISSOURI
* UNTIL 300 PM CDT
* SOME STREAMS AND RIVERS AFFECTED
FLAT CREEK
* CAUSE AND EFFECT
VERY HEAVY RAINS IN THE SEDALIA AREA ARE CAUSING FLOODING PROBLEMS.
RADAR ESTIMATES THAT AROUND 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE
10 AM...AND THIS HAS CAUSED STREET FLOODING IN SEDALIA...AND
FLOODING OF HIGHWAY 50.
* FORECAST CONDITIONS
EXPECT PERIODS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO LAST INTO THE
AFTERNOON...AND THIS WILL CAUSE ADDITIONAL FLOODING PROBLEMS.
PERSONS ACROSS THE AREA SHOULD WATCH FOR RAPIDLY RISING WATER
IN CREEKS AND STREAMS.
REMEMBER...DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS! THE WATER MAY BE
MUCH DEEPER THAN YOU THINK. 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, 7 hours 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 7, 2:54 AM CDT, 7 hours 58 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, 6:01 AM CDT, 4 hours 51 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
Local storm report, May 7, 9:40 AM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MISSOURI
940 AM CDT TUE MAY 7 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1014 PM 1 W BASEHOR KS .75 INCH HAIL
05/06/96 LEAVENWORTH REPORTED BY ??
1018 PM 2 NW BASEHOR KS 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/06/96 LEAVENWORTH REPORTED BY ??
1244 AM 4 N BROOKFIELD MO FLOODING 05/07/96
05/07/96 LINN WATER OVER ROAD AT JCT OF
P AND M HIGHWAYS
1248 AM NEAR CHILLICOTHE MO FLOODING
05/07/96 LIVINGSTON HWY 65 PERIODICALLY COVERED
BY HIGH WATER
OLD HWY 190 .25 MILE WEST
OF CHILLICOTHE CLOSED DUE
DUE TO HIGH WATER
1253 AM WEST OF MACON MO FLOODING
05/07/96 MACON HIGHWAY 36 CLOSED WEST
OF MACON. HIGHWAYS PP AND
ALSO 149 CLOSED. MANY OTHER
RURAL ROADS ALSO CLOSED
0130 AM KANSAS CITY MO LIGHTNING
05/07/96 JACKSON STRUCK HOME CAUSING FIRE
0133 AM NEW CAMBRIA MO FLOODING
05/07/96 MACON CAR WASHED INTO SMALL CREEK
ALONG HIGHWAY 149. ONE WOMAN
HAD TO BE RESCUED FROM A TREE
220 AM KANSAS CITY KS FLOODING
05/07/96 WYANDOTTE STREET FLOODING IN K.C. KS
0230 AM WEST OF MACON MO FLOODING
05/07/96 MACON HIGHWAY 36 STILL CLOSED.
EASTBOUND LANES 2 FEET UNDER
WATER
0230 AM MACON MO FLOODING
05/07/96 MACON STREET FLOODING IN MACON.
HIGHWAY 63 ON NORTH SIDE OF
MACON HAS WATER OVER IT.
0300 AM BROOKFIELD MO FLOODING
05/07/96 LINN POLICE EVACUATING PARTS OF
CITY DUE TO HIGH WATER
0300 AM 1 W CHILLICOTHE MO FLOODING
05/07/96 LIVINGSTON HIGHWAY 190 STILL CLOSED
0405 AM MACON MO FLOODING
05/07/96 MACON 7 HOMES EVACUATED DUE TO
HIGH WATER
0418 AM 1 W BROOKFIELD MO FLOODING
05/07/96 LINN HIGHWAY 36 CLOSED DUE TO
HIGH WATERLocal storm report, May 7, 10:20 AM CDT, 32 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
1020 AM CDT TUE MAY 7 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0910 AM 2 S STILLWELL KS .75 INCH HAIL
05/07/96 JOHNSON
0913 AM LEAVENWORTH KS .75 INCH HAIL
05/07/96 LEAVENWORTH
0935 AM BOONVILLE MO FLOODING
05/07/96 COOPER STREET FLOODING
0943 AM 1 S STILLWELL KS FLOODING
05/07/96 JOHNSON WATER OVER ROAD AT
194TH AND METCAdLF
WELVAERTThe 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, 8:43 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper | 3 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.