Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 25, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 14, 1996, 3:22 PM CDT for Cooper County, Missouri. It was in force for 2 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, 3:22 PM CDT (20:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 1996, 5:33 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 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 20:22 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, 8.4 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 728 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 416 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMCI 142022
FFWMCI
MOC053-150030-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
322 PM CDT TUE MAY 14 1996
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR
COOPER COUNTY - CENTRAL MISSOURI
* UNTIL 730 PM CDT
* SOME STREAMS AND RIVERS AFFECTED
PETITE SALINE RIVER
MONITEAU CREEK
* CAUSE AND EFFECT
AT 315 PM DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATED THAT 1/2 TO 1 INCH OF
RAIN HAD FALLEN SINCE 230 PM OVER EASTERN COOPER COUNTY FROM
BOONVILLE TO WOOLDRIDGE.
* FORECAST CONDITIONS
MOTORISTS ALONG LOCAL ROADWAYS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR WATER OVER ROADS.
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD!
MITCHELLWhat 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 14, 2:55 AM CDT, 12 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 14, 2:55 AM CDT, 12 hours 27 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 245 AM CDT TUE MAY 14 1996 FCST CHALLENGE TODAY WILL BE POPS AND TEMPS. WRMFNT CURRENTLY EXTDS FM SRN TX PNHDL EWD INVOF RED RVR AND THRU CNTRL LA. TIMING OF FNT CRITICAL FOR MAX TEMPS AS WELL AS PCPN CHCS. ETA/NGM BOTH SHOW MORE OF A NW-SE ORIENTATION BY 00Z WED. THIS SEEMS RSNBL AS STG SLY LLVL JET DVLPS ACRS THE PLAINS. EXPC WRMFNT TO BE CLOSE TO PROG FCST AND OVR ERN KS BY THIS EVE. THIS BNDRY LIKELY TO BE FOCUS FOR TSTMS LTR THIS AFTN AND EVE WITH INCRG WAA AND APCHG H7 VORT LOBE PROVIDING ADDNL LIFT. LTST STLT IMAGERY CURRENTLY SHOWS ONE SHRTWV MOVG EWD INTO WRN SD/NEB WITH ACTIVE MCS OVR SD AND ANOTHER SHRTWV MOVG INTO NM WITH SCT CNVTN OVR THE SRN PLAINS. THIS LEAVES KS/MO IN BTN FOR THE TIME BEING. HWVR GOOD NW-SE BACLIN ZONE SET UP ACRS KS SO SHUD SEE INCR IN SCT RW- THIS MRNG WITH TSTMS HOLDING OFF TILL THIS AFTN/EVE. BEST UVV AND PVA MOVS ACRS CWA THIS AFTN AND ERY EVE SO WILL STRUCTURE POPS ACCORDINGLY. WITH PROXIMITY OF WRMFNT NR CWA AND AMS DSTBLZG CANT RULE OUT AN ISOLD SVR STORM. CNSDRBL CLDNS TODAY AS CWA WILL BE ON COOL SIDE OF FNT SO WILL NOT SEE MAX EFFECT OF WAA. GUID VALUES RSNBL. SHUD GET BREEZY BY THIS AFTN WITH A MORE SLY COMPONENT TO WIND. VERY WRM AIR MOVS INTO MO ON WED WITH WRM MID LVL TEMPS CAPPING AMS. MCI 70/64 53 JULY
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 14, 12:56 PM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before
KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-151200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 100 PM CDT TUE MAY 14 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR NORTH MISSOURI UNTIL 3PM... ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT... ...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN MAY BE PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING IN NORTH MISSOURI... FORECAST...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF MISSOURI THROUGH 3PM. LOW CLOUDS...RAIN AND FOG WILL FOLLOW IN BEHIND THESE THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. THE LOW CLOUDS WILL CLEAR OUT THIS EVENING...WITH ANOTHER CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED THIS EVENING AND THROUGH MIDNIGHT. THE GREATEST THREAT FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY BE FROM LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. DUE TO THE SATURATED GROUNDS...THUNDERSTORMS THAT PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN IN EXCESS OF ONE TO ONE AND ONE-HALF INCHES AN HOUR...COULD PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING. PERSONS SHOULD AVOID DRIVING THROUGH ROADS COVERED WITH WATER. CIVIL DEFENSE COORDINATORS...HAM RADIO AND SPOTTER NETWORKS MAY BE REQUIRED AGAIN THIS EVENING. DISCUSSION...THUNDERSTORMS ASSOCIATED WITH AN ELEVATED WARM FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE NORTHEAST THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. LOW CLOUDS AND FOG WILL FOLLOW BEHIND THE THESE THUNDERSTORMS...AS WARM AIR ALOFT IS EXPECTED TO PREVENT THE RE-DEVELOPMENT STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON. AS THE SURFACE WARM FRONT MOVES NORTHEAST INTO THE AREA THIS EVENING...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY RE-DEVELOP IN NEBRASKA AND IOWA...AND SHIFT SOUTHWARD I`NTO NORTH MISSOURI. SMITH
Special weather statement, May 14, 2:14 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
KSZ025-102-MOZ020-142000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 214 PM CDT TUE MAY 14 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED FOR BUCHANAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED FOR ATCHISON AND DONIPHAN COUNTIES IN NORTHEAST KANSAS... THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE NO LONGER INCLUDED IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 327 IN EFFECT UNTIL 3PM... IN MISSOURI... BUCHANAN...INCLUDING THE CITY OF ST. JOSEPH IN NORTHEAST KANSAS... DONIPHAN...INCLUDING THE CITY OF TROY ATCHISON...INCLUDING THE CITY OF ATCHISON KANSAS THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT HAS DIMINISHED GREATLY DURING THE LAST HOUR. THE THREAT OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY OCCUR AGAIN THIS EVENING...ALONG WITH THE THREAT FOR HEAVY...POSSIBLY FLASH-FLOOD PRODUCING RAINFALL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERICIAL TELEVISION AND RADIO FOR ANY WEATHER UPDATES OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SMITH
Special weather statement, May 14, 3:19 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
MOZ001-002-011>014-021-022-142215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 319 PM CDT TUE MAY 14 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 367 EXPIRED FOR SEVERAL NORTHWEST MISSOURI COUNTIES... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE NO LONGER INCLUDED IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 327... IN MISSOURI... ATCHISON ANDREW CLINTON CALDWELL DAVIEES DEKALB HOLT NODAWAY THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT HAS DIMINISHED GREATLY DURING THE LAST HOUR. THE THREAT OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY OCCUR AGAIN THIS EVENING...ALONG WITH THE THREAT FOR HEAVY...POSSIBLY FLASH-FLOOD PRODUCING RAINFALL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERICIAL TELEVISION AND RADIO FOR ANY WEATHER UPDATES OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SMITH
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, 1:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Nodaway | 4 hr |
| 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, 3:53 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
Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996
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.