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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 6, 1996Macon County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 6, 1996, 11:20 PM CDT for Macon 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 6, 1996, 11:20 PM CDT (04:20 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 1996, 3:00 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Macon County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 185 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:23 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

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 264 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: 1081 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 392 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 070420
FFWMCI
MOC121-070800-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
1120 PM CDT MON MAY 6 1996

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR
  MACON COUNTY - NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 300 AM CDT
 
* SOME STREAMS AND RIVERS AFFECTED
    BRUSH CREEK
    MUSSELL FORK
    MIDDLE FORK
    EAST FORK

* CAUSE AND EFFECT
    ONE TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN IN MACON COUNTY JUST NORTH
    OF HIGHWAY 36.  THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER THE COUNTY
    THROUGH 1 AM WITH ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL.

* FORECAST CONDITIONS
    BE ALERT FOR RAPID RISES ON STREAMS AND CREEKS IN THESE AREAS.
    ALSO...PERSONS TRAVELLING ALONG HIGHWAYS 36 AND 65 SHOULD BE REMAIN
    AWARE FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF FLOODED ROADWAYS.

DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD!  WATER COVERED
ROADWAYS CAN BE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS DIFFICULT TO
JUDGE WATER DEPTH.

BUNTING/MANION
 
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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 6, 2:50 PM CDT, 8 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 6, 2:50 PM CDT, 8 hours 30 minutes before

NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
250 PM CDT MON MAY 6 1996

CURRENT MCS EVENT SHOWING SIGNS OF WEAKENING ON SATELLITE AND
FINALLLY STARTING TO MOVE MORE RAPIDLY EASTWARD. SCTD RW/TRW STILL
IN ERN KS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME TOO STRONG AS THEY MOVE INTO
THE WORKED OVER ATMOSPHERE LEFT BEHIND BY MCS CHUCK. NEXT SHOW
SHOULD BE WITH MCS DEVELOPMENT OVERNIGHT. ONLY HAVE ETA AND AVN
GRIDDED DATA TO PERUSE. ETA SHOWS THETAE RIDGE HOLDING INTO SC
KS...WITH GOOD LOW LEVEL FLOW TO SET UP AS UPPER WAVE THAT
SATELLITE CURRENTLY SHOWS IN UTAH APPROACHES AREA. SFC BOUNDARY
REMAINS JUST TO SOUTH OF AREA AND H85 FRONT STAYS ACROSS CWA. MCS
SHOULD BRING MORE HEAVY RAIN TO MUCH OF THE CWA. ALREADY SATURATED
GROUND ACROSS SOUTHERN HALF OF CWA FOR LAST SEVERAL MCS EVENTS SET
STAGE FOR FLASH FLOODING SO WATCH IS WARRANTED.

EXPECT MCS (D...) TO STILL BE AFFECTING AREA IN THE MORNING...THEN
WORKED OVER ATMOSPHERE WILL PROBABLY NOT RECOVER TO SUPPORT MUCH
ACTIVITY TUESDAY AFTERNOON...SO WILL HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL TUESDAY
NIGHT WHEN EVEN BETTER MCS (E...) SCENARIO SETS UP FOR CWA WITH H85
WINDS PROGGED AT 50KTS INTO AREA BY WEDNESDAY MORNING.

FWC GUIDANCE STARTING OFF TOO WARM WITH TEMPS SO WILL GO COLDER FOR
LOWS TONIGHT. MCS ALSO WILL AFFECT HIGHS ON TUESDAY...SO THINK FWC
TOO WARM AGAIN SO WILL STAY COOLER.

MCI TT 51/68 76

PC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 9:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Linn, Livingston	4 hr
May 7, 1:28 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Linn, Livingston	3 hr
May 7, 2:45 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Macon	2 hr
May 7, 8:43 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper	3 hr
May 7, 10:52 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Pettis	4 hr
May 7, 11:33 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper, Howard	3 hr
May 7, 12:49 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Randolph	3 hr

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.