Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 1997, 2:46 AM CDT for Johnson County, Miami County, Kansas. It was in force for 104 min. 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 16, 1997, 2:46 AM CDT (07:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1997, 4:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 104 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Johnson County, KS, Miami County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:48 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 77 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2800 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 903 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.0
- Supercell composite
- 9.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMCI 160745
FFWMCI
KSC091-107-121-MOC013-160930-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
246 AM CDT MON JUN 16 1997
* URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING FOR
SOUTHERN JOHNSON COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
LINN COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
MIAMI COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
BATES COUNTY - WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI
* UNTIL 430 AM CDT
* SOME STREAMS AND RIVERS AFFECTED
HILLSDALE LAKE
TENMILE CREEK
WEA CREEK
SUGAR AND LITTE MINE CREEKS
MIAMI CREEK
MORMON FORK.
* CAUSE AND EFFECT
RAINFALL IN EXCESS OF TWO TO THREE INCHES HAS FALLEN SINCE MIDNIGHT
OVER THE AFFECTED COUNTIES. THIS HAS CAUSED PONDING OF WATER OVER
ROADS IN SOUTHERN JOHNSON COUNTY NEAR THE COMMUNITIES OF GARDNER...
EDGERTON...SPRING HILL AND IN THE HILLSDALE LAKE AREA NEAR ROUTE 69.
* FORECAST CONDITIONS
ANOTHER ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN IS EXPECTED TO FALL OVER THE
AFFECTED COUNTIES THROUGH 400 AM. THIS RAIN WILL LIKELY OVERWHELM
SEVERAL CITY DRAINAGE SYSTEMS...CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS
AND CAUSE SMALL CREEKS TO OVERFLOW.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZEF THE
DANGER OF FLOODING.
SMITH
&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 16, 2:30 AM CDT, 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 2:30 AM CDT, 16 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 230 AM CDT MON JUN 16 1997 FCST CONCERNS COVER BOTH SHORT AND LONG TERM EVENTS THIS PKG. KEAX 88D RETURNS SHOW CLEAR PRECIP BACK EDGE WORKING ACRS NW MO ATTM...SINKING SLOWLY SE. DONT ANTICIPATE ANY REDEVELOPMENT BEHIND THIS LINE SO WL CLEAR ZONES AS THIS PASSES. LONGER TERM FCSTS DEPEND A GOOD DEAL ON LOCATION OF THE BOUNDARY THAT TRIGGERED ONGOING CNVCTN. ETA ONCE AGAIN MOST PROGRESSIVE AND FURTHEST SE WITH BOUNDARY PLACEMENT...AND ONCE AGAIN SEEMS OVERDONE IN THAT RESPECT. WL STRUCTURE POPS AROUND NGM/AVN PLACEMENT OF BOUNDARY. XTRM NRN/NWRN MO/NERN KS SHOULD BE FAR ENOUGH AWAY TO STAY DRY...BUT WL KEEP POPS IN ELSEWHERE. BETTER CHC OF SHRA/TSRA ON TUE THAN MON NIGHT AS SW UPRLVL LOW FINALLY EJECTS. ONCE AGAIN AGREE WITH NGM/AVN SOLN KEEPING SYSTEM TOGETHER...PREFERRED OVER SHEAR SOLN FROM THE ETA. LOOKING FORWARD TO THE LATTER PART OF THE WEEK WHEN TRANQUIL WX RETURNS. MOS TEMPS FAIRLY CONSISTENT...WL SPLIT DIFF IN MOST CASES. .EAX...NONE. JHV
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 10:11 PM CDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before
KSZ025-MOZ006>008-014>016-020-021-160515- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 1011 PM CDT SUN JUN 15 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 445 NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF NORTHWEST MISSOURI AND NORTHEAST KANSAS... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 445 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR AREAS ALONG AND NORTHWEST OF AN EFFINGHAM KANSAS TO ST JOSEPH TO LANCASTER MISSOURI LINE. THE ADDITIONAL COUNTIES THAT NO LONGER IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ARE... IN KANSAS... ATCHISON IN MISSOURI BUCHANAN...CLINTON...DAVIESS...GRUNDY...MERCER...PUTNAM...SULLIVAN AND SCHUYLER AT 1015 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED WELL SOUTH AND EAST OF THE AREA. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE AFFECTING THE AREA TONIGHT...BUT THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED ACROSS THE AREA. HUDSON
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 10:15 PM CDT, 4 hours 31 minutes before
KSZ025-MOZ006>008-014>016-020-021-160515- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 1011 PM CDT SUN JUN 15 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 445 NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF NORTHWEST MISSOURI AND NORTHEAST KANSAS... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 445 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR AREAS ALONG AND NORTHWEST OF AN EFFINGHAM KANSAS TO ST JOSEPH TO LANCASTER MISSOURI LINE. THE ADDITIONAL COUNTIES THAT NO LONGER IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ARE... IN KANSAS... ATCHISON IN MISSOURI BUCHANAN...CLINTON...DAVIESS...GRUNDY...MERCER...PUTNAM...SULLIVAN AND SCHUYLER AT 1015 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HADh MOVED WELL SOUTH AND EAST OF THE AREA. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE AFFECTING THE AREA TONIGHT...BUT THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED ACROSS THE AREA. HUDSON
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 11:17 PM CDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before
KSZ103>105-MOZ022>024-028>031-037-160615- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 1117 PM CDT SUN JUN 15 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 445 NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA AND PARTS OF NORTHWEST MISSOURI... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 445 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR AREAS ALONG AND NORTHWEST OF A KANSAS CITY TO BROOKFIELD MISSOURI TO LANCASTER MISSOURI LINE. THE ADDITIONAL COUNTIES THAT NO LONGER IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ARE... IN KANSAS... LEAVENWORTH...WYANDOTTE...JOHNSON IN MISSOURI PLATTE...CLAY...JACKSON...RAY...CALDWELL...LIVINGSTON...CARROLL AND LINN AT 1115 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE LEADING EDGE OF A LINE OF WEAKENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OLATHE NEAR EDGERTON TO HARRISONVILLE TO JUST WEST OF WARRENSBURG. THE LINE OF STORMS RECURVED NORTH AND EAST TOWARDS THE MACON AND KIRKSVILLE AREAS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE AFFECTING THE AREA TONIGHT...BUT THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED ACROSS THE AREA. HUDSON
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 12:25 AM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
KSZ103>105-MOZ022>024-028>031-037-160615- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 1225 AM CDT MON JUN 16 1997 ...THE REMAINING PORTION OF THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 445 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR EAST CENTRAL KANSAS AND NORTHWEST MISSOURI... THE COUNTIES WHICH HAVE BEEN CANCELLED INCLUDE... IN KANSAS... MIAMI IN MISSOURI CASS...JOHNSON...LAFAYETTE...PETTIS...SALINE...COOPER...HOWARD... CHARITON...RANDOLPH...MACON AND ADAIR. BEUSTERIEN
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 12:32 AM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
KSZ103>105-MOZ022>024-028>031-037-160615- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 1225 AM CDT MON JUN 16 1997 ...THE REMAINING PORTION OF THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 445 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR EAST CENTRAL KANSAS AND NORTHWEST MISSOURI... THE COUNTIES WHICH HAVE BEEN CANCELLED INCLUDE... IN KANSAS... MIAMI IN MISSOURI CASS...JOHNSON...LAFAYETTE...PETTIS...SALINE...COOPER...HOWARD... CHARNITON...RANDOLPH...MACON AND ADAIR. BEUSTERIEN
Local storm report, Jun 16, 12:58 AM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MISSOURI
1258 AM CDT MON JUN 16 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1120 PM MACON MO WIND DAMAGE
06/15/97 MACON 4 TREES REPORTED BLOWN
DOWN IN MACON...ALONG WITH
REPORT OF BARN DOOR BLOWN
ACROSS HIGHWAY K. REPORTS
RECEIVED FROM 1120 PM TO
1130 PM CDT
HUDSONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 2:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Linn | 104 min |
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.