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Flash Flood Warning 35, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 6, 1996Grundy County, Harrison County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 6, 1996, 9:11 AM CDT for Grundy County, Harrison 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: Jun 6, 1996, 9:11 AM CDT (14:11 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 1996, 1:10 PM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:14 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, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 249 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: 33 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -70 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 810 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMCI 061409
FFWMCI
MOC079-081-061810-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
911 AM CDT THU JUN 6 1996

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR
  NORTHERN GRUNDY COUNTY - NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI
  HARRISON COUNTY - NORTHWEST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 110 PM CDT
 
* SOME STREAMS AND RIVERS AFFECTED
    THOMPSON RIVER
    POLECAT CREEK
    FOX CREEK
    MUDDY CREEK
    WELDON RIVER

* CAUSE AND EFFECT
    NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS
    ESTIMATE 4 TO 6 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER THE WARNING AREA
    OVERNIGHT.

* FORECAST CONDITIONS
    THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT ONE TO TWO
    HOURS...PRODUCING 1 TO 2 ADDITIONAL INCHES OF RAIN IN SOME
    AREAS.

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

JHV

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 Jun 6, 3:45 AM CDT, 5 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 3:45 AM CDT, 5 hours 26 minutes before

NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
345 AM CDT THU JUN 6 1996

NOT MUCH TIME TO LOOK AT DATA THIS SHIFT.  BOTTOM LN...CWA NOT OUT OF
WOODS FOR SVR TIL THIS EVE.  AMS TO RMN MDTLY UNSTBL ALG AND AHD OF
APCHG CDFNT.  BNDRY XTNDS FM NW IA INTO CNTRL KS THIS AM AND PROGGD
INTO FAR NW MO BY 12Z...ROUGHLY P35-MCI LN ARND 18Z...IRK-BUT LN 21Z
...THEN THRU RMNDR OF CWA BY 00Z.  CATEGORICAL POPS TO CONT ALG WITH
FFA TDA...POPS DCRG TO SCT DURG EVE.

MCI 76/57 +3
DJV

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 6, 5:51 AM CDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ002>008-012>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-061145-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
553 AM CDT THU JUN 6 1996

THE TxORNADO AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES THAT WERE IN EFFECT
THROUGH 600 AM THIS MORNING FOR MOST OF THE AREA HAVE BEEN CANCELLED.

THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS LESSENED DURING THE EARLY MORNING
HOURS ACROSS THE AREA.

DJV

Local storm report, Jun 6, 6:06 AM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MISSOURI
610 AM CDT THU JUN 06 1996

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1045 PM    OLATHE                    KS   .75 INCH HAIL
06/05/96   JOHNSON                        S OF I435 NEAR I35

1129 PM    BUCYRUS                   KS   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/96   MIAMI                          ALSO OCCURRED AT
                                          LOUISBURG KS

Special weather statement, Jun 6, 6:37 AM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-071200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
638 AM CDT THU JUNE 6 1996

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE AGAIN TODAY INTO THIS EVENING...

FORECAST...THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS
MORNING INTO EARLY AFTERNOON ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA.  THE PRIMARY
THREAT WILL BE FROM LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.  IN ADDITION...
HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR FLASH FLOODING.  THE
MODERATE RISK AREA WILL SHIFT TO SOUTH OF A MACON TO PAOLA LINE
AFTER 200 PM THIS AFTERNOON...AND CONTINUE INTO THE EARLY EVENING
HOURS.  ONLY A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED
NORTH OF THIS LINE DURING THIS TIME FRAME AS MOST STORMS WILL PRODUCE
SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH.  THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS
EXPECTED TO END SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA.

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT...HAM RADIO AND SPOTTER NETWORK GROUPS SHOULD KEEP
ABREAST OF THE LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS AS SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL
LIKELY BE NEEDED AGAIN TODAY INTO THIS EVENING.

DISCUSSION...A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SLOWLY SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE AREA
TODAY INTO THIS EVENING.  SOUTH WINDS IN ADVANCE OF THE FRONT WILL
CONTINUE TO FEED WARM...MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR INTO THE REGION.  ONCE
AGAIN...STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED AHEAD AND ALONG
THIS BOUNDARY THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS.

DJV
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 8:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Platte	55 min
Jun 5, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Macon	48 min
Jun 5, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Platte	46 min
Jun 5, 9:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson	51 min
Jun 5, 10:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass, Jackson	48 min
Jun 5, 10:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Gentry, Harrison	63 min
Jun 5, 11:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Grundy, Harrison	43 min
Jun 5, 11:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Grundy	50 min
Jun 6, 12:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Livingston	52 min
Jun 6, 12:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Lafayette	47 min
Jun 6, 12:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Linn	38 min
Jun 6, 12:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Platte	33 min
Jun 6, 1:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Lafayette	47 min
Jun 6, 1:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Linn	39 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 1996 Every 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.