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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 14, 1996Nodaway County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 14, 1996, 1:26 PM CDT for Nodaway 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 14, 1996, 1:26 PM CDT (18:26 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 1996, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Nodaway County, MO

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:23 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

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 164 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 882 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 297 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 471 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMCI 141826
FFWMCI
MOC147-142230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
126 PM CDT TUE MAY 14 1996

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR
  NODAWAY COUNTY - NORTHWEST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT
 
* SOME STREAMS AND RIVERS AFFECTED
    NODAWAY RIVER
    102 RIVER
    PLATTE RIVER

* CAUSE AND EFFECT
AT 115 PM DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT 2-3 INCHES OF RAIN
HAVE FALLEN SINCE 10 AM OVER A LINE FROM SKIDMORE TO CONCEPTION.

* FORECAST CONDITIONS
MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR WATER OVER ROADWAYS.

DON'T DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS!  MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN
AUTOMOBILES.

MITCHELL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 12:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison	42 min
May 14, 12:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison	26 min
May 14, 1:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison	43 min
May 14, 1:31 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Andrew, Holt	6 hr
May 14, 1:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Nodaway	57 min
May 14, 1:36 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Gentry	4 hr
May 14, 1:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Howard	60 min
May 14, 1:48 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Howard	4 hr
May 14, 3:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Grundy	58 min
May 14, 3:22 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper	2 hr
May 14, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Linn, Livingston	52 min
May 14, 5:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Macon, Randolph	43 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.