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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 26, 1997Miami County, Kansas; Cass County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 26, 1997, 11:05 PM CDT for Miami County, Kansas; Cass County, Missouri. It was in force for 3 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 26, 1997, 11:05 PM CDT (04:05 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 1997, 2:30 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Miami County, KS, Cass County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:05 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 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 101 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: 8 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -643 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 553 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 190 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 270400
FFWMCI
KSC121-MOC037-270730-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
1105 PM CDT MON MAY 26 1997

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR
    MIAMI COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
    CASS COUNTY - WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI
 
* UNTIL 230 AM CDT

* SOME STREAMS AND RIVERS AFFECTED
    SOUTH GRAND RIVER
    TENMILE CREEK
    CRAWFORD CREEK
    WEA CREEK
    EIGHTMILE CREEK

* CAUSE AND EFFECT
RADAR ESTIMATES RAINFALL OF 1 TO 3 INCHES HAS OCCURRED BETWEEN 9 AND
11 PM.

* FORECAST CONDITIONS
THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE OVER CASS AND MIAMI COUNTIES
PRODUCING AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL BY 230 AM.

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

PB/JV

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, 2:49 PM CDT, 8 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 2:49 PM CDT, 8 hours 16 minutes before

NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
246 PM CDT MON MAY 26 1997

FCST CONCERNS WILL BE HVY RAIN/SVR THREAT FAR SRN CNTYS TNGT...RAIN IN
GENL NEXT 2 DAYS...TEMPS.

LOOKING AT SVRL BNDRYS THIS AFTN. PRIMARY ONE LIES FM LOW NR BVO TO S
OF CNU THEN E TO ANOTHER LOW NR VIH. AMS VERY MOIST/UNSTBL S OF THIS
BNDRY AND IS LIKELY BREEDING GRND FOR SVR. FTHR N STLT/RADAR DATA
SUPPORT ANOTHER BNDRY FM NR EMP EWD ACRS LINN/BATES/SRN HENRY CNTYS.
ISOLD SVR THREAT CUD EXTD AS FAR N AS A PAOLA TO SEDALIA LN. WILL BE
WATCHING THIS AREA THIS EVENING BUT IT MAY TAKE THE UPR DYNAMICS TO
ACTIVATE THIS BNDRY LTR ON.

IMPRESSIVE UPR LVL TROF EXPCD TO MOVE SLOLY E OUT OF CO TNGT...RCHG
CNTRL/ERN KS BY TUE MRNG. STRENGTH OF DYNAMICS/PLENTIFUL MSTR AND
RECENT HVY RAINS SUG PTNL FOR FLASH FLOODING OVR SRN PTN OF CWA. HV
COORD WITH STL ON FFA FOR THIS AREA TNGT. CAVEAT IS IF OK/SE KS/SRN MO
PTN OF BNDRY LIGHTS UP AND BCMS ONE LRG COMPLEX THE RISK OF FALSH
FLOODING WILL BE REDUCED. HWVR DUE TO 2-3 INCH RAINS LAST 24 HRS AND
UPR DYNAMICS THINK IT BEST TO GO WITH FFA. STG/SVR CNVTN ALREADY OCRG
OVR WRN KS. MAY BE THE BGNGS OF AN MCS BUT WITH PLENTY OF ACCAS SHOWG UP
ACRS CNTRL KS WUDNT SURPRISE ME IF CNVTN STARTS GOING THERE TOO. EXCEPT
FOR FAR SRN CNTYS THE RAIN SHUD HOLD OFF TILL LTR THIS EVE WITH NE CNTYS
WAITING TILL AFT MIDNIGHT.

BNDRY RMNS S OF FA THRU TMRW WITH UPR TROF ADVANCING EWD. SHUD SEE PDS
OF RA/TSRA TMRW SO WILL GO CAT. TEMPS NOT GOING ANYWHERE NEXT 36 HRS
WITH NE TO E BDL WINDS. TROF STILL W OF FA ON WED SO SOME RESIDUAL RAIN
PSBL WITH LOW OVC.

.EAX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH...TNGT...MO ZNS 43>46 53 54...KS ZNS 57 60

J
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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 26, 5:40 PM CDT, 5 hours 25 minutes before

DELAYED LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MISSOURI
440 PM CST MON MAY 26 1997

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

1240 AM    4 NNE ROCKVILLE           MO   SHED DESTROYED. PUBLIC
05/26/97   BATES                          REPORT.

1035 PM    ARCHIE                    MO   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/25/97   CASS                           GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL.

1213 AM    AMSTERDAM                 MO   70 MPH TSTM WIND
05/26/97   BATES                          LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN.
                                          REPORT FROM BATES S.O.

1215 AM    5 E WORLAND               MO   60 MPH TSTM WIND
05/26/97   BATES                          REPORT FROM BATES S.O.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 10:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass	35 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 1997 Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 1997 Every flash flood warning in 1997

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.