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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 11, 1997Saline County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 11, 1997, 6:55 PM CDT for Saline 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
Jun 11, 1997, 6:55 PM CDT (23:55 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 1997, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Saline County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 11.9 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1997-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 155 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1997-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 45 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
155 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
633 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
99 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMCI 112355
FFWMCI
MOC195-120300-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
655 PM CDT WED JUN 11 1997

* URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING FOR
    SALINE COUNTY - CENTRAL MISSOURI
 
* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT

* SOME STREAMS AND RIVERS AFFECTED

SALT FORK CREEK

* CAUSE AND EFFECT
THUNDERSTORMS REMAINED NEARLY STATIONARY FROM NORTON TO SALINE CITY.

* FORECAST CONDITIONS
STORMS MAY REDEVELOP TO THE NORTHWEST ACROSS NORTHERN SALINE COUNTY
THIS EVENING. RADAR INDICATES 2 1/2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE
6 PM 6 MILES NORTH OF MARSHALL.

REMEMBER...DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD!

DJV

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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.