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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 26, 1996Saline County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 26, 1996, 10:19 AM CDT for Saline County, Missouri. It was in force for 116 min. 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 26, 1996, 10:19 AM CDT (15:19 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 1996, 12:15 PM CDT
In force: 116 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Saline County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 211 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: 28 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -196 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 590 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 308 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 308 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 261519
FFWMCI
MOC195-262100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
1019 AM CDT SUN MAY 26 1996

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR
  SALINE COUNTY - CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 400 PM CDT
 
* SOME STREAMS AND RIVERS AFFECTED
    BLACKWATER RIVER
    SALT FORK CREEK

* CAUSE AND EFFECT
    THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PRODUCED 1.5 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN SINCE 7 AM
    ALONG A LINE FROM SWEET SPRINGS TO SLATER..RESULTING IN SOME
    STREET FLOODING AND RAPID RISES ON STREAMS AND CREEKS.

* FORECAST CONDITIONS
    ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN IS LIKELY THROUGH NOON IN THE COUNTY...
    INCREASING THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING.

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

BUNTING

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 26, 3:45 AM CDT, 6 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 3:45 AM CDT, 6 hours 34 minutes before

NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
330 AM CDT SUN MAY 26 1996

LOOKING AT UPPER AIR...GRIDDED DATA...FAIRBURY AND LATHROP
PROFILERS...AS WELL AS 06-07Z SFC CHARTS...SEE POSSIBILITY THAT
CONVECTION OVR IN CNTRL KS MAY HOLD TOGETHER TO JUST MAKE IT INTO
EAX CWA AROUND BEGINNING OF FIRST PD. MAY BE ELEVATED
CONVECTION...BUT SHOULD BE ON A WEAKENING TREND AS IT MOVES E OF TOP.

EVEN THOUGH RAFS AND ETA DATA IS SUSPECT DUE TO MISSING RAOB
DATA...RAFS APPRS TO HAVE THE MOST REASONABLE SOLN...SIMILIAR TO
EARLIER RUNS OF AVN TO MOVE CLOSED LOW NEWD INTO NWRN KS BY 36 HRS.

EXPECT THIS SCENERIO...SFC TO 850 MB FLOW WL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACRS
SFC BNDRY  JUST S OF EAX CWA AT 05Z...GRADUALLY MOVING THE BNDRY
NWD THROUGH 24 HRS. GOOD ISENTROPIC LIFT WL KP F/ST/L- ACRS CWA
EARLY THIS AM...WITH AREAS OF DENSE FOG (VSBY BLO 1/2) POSSIBLE
THROUGH MID-MORNING. RW/TRW FROM KS CONVECTION SHOULD BEGIN TO
WEAKEN SOMEWHAT AFT 11Z...HOPEFULLY...BUT MAY REACH INTO WRN 1/2 OF
EAX CWA BEFORE DISSIPATING.

POP CHANCES SHOULD DIMINISH SOMEWHAT BTWN 18Z-00Z...BUT INCRS
SHARPLY AFT 27/03Z TONIGHT. LN OF TRW/RW SHOULD MOVE IN WRN 1/3 OF
EAX CWA ARND OR BEFORE 27/06Z...WITH SVR POTL...THEN GRADUALLY
SHIFT TO A HVY RAIN EVENT BY MID-MORNING ON MEMORIAL DAY.

SINCE MY FCST TEMPS HAVE BEEN VERIFING FOR MKC AND NOT MCI...WL
ADJUST TEMPS ACCORDINGLY...ACCOUNTING FOR BOUNDARY/AIRMASS CHANGES.

MCI  073/063 69

SMITH

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 26, 5:57 AM CDT, 4 hours 22 minutes before

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-271200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
600 AM CDT SUN MAY 26 1996

...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT...

FORECAST...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME POSSIBLY SEVERE WILL MOVE
ACROSS EXTREME NORTHEAST KANSAS AND INTO WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI BETWEEN
6AM AND NOON TODAY. THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE WEATHER THIS MORNING
WILL LIKELY BE ALONG AND SOUTH OF A TROY KANSAS...ST. JOSEPH AND
MOBERLY MISSOURI LINE.

THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL LIKELY BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS.

OTHERWISE...A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXIST AGAIN
THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOST
NUMEROUS LATE TONIGHT AND INTO MEMORIAL DAY /MONDAY/.

LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE FLASH
FLOODING IN FLOOD PRONE AND LOW-LYING AREAS.

DISCUSSION...AN INTENSE AREA OF LOW PRESSURE IN THE SOUTHWEST U.S.
WILL MOVE TOWARD NORTHWEST KANSAS TODAY INTO TONIGHT. THE EAST-WEST
ORIENTED FRONT THAT WAS POISED SOUTH OF THE OUTLOOK AREA WILL MOVE
NORTH TODAY...INCREASING THE CHANCES FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN
THE REGION.

SMITH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 9:55 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Cass, Jackson	5 hr

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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.