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Flash Flood Warning 38, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 24, 1996Andrew County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 24, 1996, 9:35 AM CDT for Andrew County, Missouri. It was in force for 11 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 24, 1996, 9:35 AM CDT (14:35 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 1996, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 11 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Andrew County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:37 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, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 131 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: 1078 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -126 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 763 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMCI 241432
FFWMCI
MOC003-260300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
935 AM CDT MON JUN 24 1996

* FLOOD WARNING FOR
  ANDREW COUNTY - NORTHWEST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT TUESDAY JUNE 25.

* RIVER AFFECTED
   102 RIVER

* CAUSE AND EFFECT
    DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES THAT 3 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN FELL OVERNIGHT
    ACROSS PORTIONS OF NODAWAY AND ANDREW COUNTY. THIS HAS CAUSED THE
    102 RIVER TO RISE OUT OF ITS BANKS THROUGHOUT ANDREW COUNTY.
    MINOR FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED AT BOLCKOW AND ROSENDALE.

  * FORECAST CONDITIONS
    THE 102 RIVER WILL REMAIN OUT OF ITS BANKS THROUGH TUESDAY
    EVENING. PERSONS ALONG THE 102 RIVER WINLL WANT TO WATCH FOR RISING
    WATER AND TAKE THE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND
    PROPERTY.

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

PREDMORE

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 24, 3:24 AM CDT, 6 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 3:24 AM CDT, 6 hours 11 minutes before

NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
325 AM CDT MON JUN 24 1996

AT 07Z CD FNT XTNDS FM JUST N OF A BIE DSM LN WITH 2-3 MB RISES ALG AND
BHD THE FNT. IN MO...OUTFLOW BNDRY LOCATED ALG S AND W EDGE OF CWA AND
STILL SERVING AS FOCUS FOR TSTM DVLPMNT. COMBINATION OF WEAK LO LVL JET
RUNNING INTO BNDRY AND SHRT WV ALF HELPING TO ENHANCE TSTMS AS WELL. 1
TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER SW CORNER OF CWA INCLUDING SRN HALF
OF KC METRO AREA SINCE LAST EVNG AND WITH SLOW MVNG TSTMS ANOTHER INCH
OR SO LIKLEY. HAVE SMALL STREAM/URBAN ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM.
WILL NOT GO WITH FLASH FLOOD WATCH ATTM SINCE TSTMS LIKELY TO WEAKEN
AFT DYBRK. DECIDED TO LEAVE 30 PERCENT POPS IN TDY ACR ALL OF CWA DUE
TO AVBL MSTR IN LO LVLS...NO CAP IN WHICH TO SPEAK OF AND WEAK
FRONTOGENETIC FORCING GRAD FCST OVR CWA BY GRIDDED DATA THRU THIS EVNG.
LEFT IN POPS TNT AS WELL...MAINLY FOR EVNG HRS AND LATE TNT ACR NW MO.
INTRODUCED POPS FOR NW MO FOR TUE AS NXT SHRT WV COMING OUT OF
MONSOONAL FLOW PUSHES ANOTHER DENT IN H5 RDG. GRIDDED DATA SHWS ALL THE
INGREDIENTS COMING TOGETHER FOR ANOTHER MCS TNT OVR CNTL NE. WITH RAIN
COOLER AIR IN PLACE OVR CWA AND ERLY WNDS LIKELY MOST OF DAY...CHOPPED
A FEW DEGS OF TEMPS TDY AND LOWERED TUE TEMPS TO BE MORE IN LINE WITH
COOLER FAN/FWC.

MCI 86/69/88/71 2211

BODNER

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 24, 5:57 AM CDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-251200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
600 AM CDT MON JUN 24 1996

...THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT BUT NO
SEVERE
               WEATHER IS EXPECTED...

FORECAST...THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT BUT ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. SPOTTER ACTIVATION
SHOULD NOT BE REQUIRED TODAY OR TONIGHT.

DISCUSSION...THE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH BROUGHT THE HEAVY RAIN TO THE
OUTLOOK AREA LAST NIGHT HAVE MOVED TO THE SOUTH AND EAST. A COLD
FRONT NORTH OF THE IOWA BORDER THIS MORNING WILL DRIFT SOUTHWARD
INTO MISSOURI TODAY AND DISSIPATE. THIS WEAKENING FRONT COULD STILL
PROVIDE ENOUGH LIFT TO TOUCH OFF SOME THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND EARLY
TONIGHT. ANOTHER LARGE THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX IS LIKELY TO FORM AGAIN
TONIGHT OVER CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND DRIFT SOUTHEASTWARD T(OWARDS
MISSOURI LATE TONIGHT.

BODNER

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.