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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 22, 1997Saline County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 22, 1997, 9:51 AM 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 22, 1997, 9:51 AM CDT (14:51 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 1997, 12:30 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 14:53 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, 2.9 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 1997-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1240 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 1997-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 2 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
1240 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-147 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1162 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
72 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 221450
FFWMCI
MOC195-221745-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
951 AM CDT SUN JUN 22 1997

* URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING FOR
    SALINE COUNTY - CENTRAL MISSOURI
 
* UNTIL 1230 PM CDT

* SOME STREAMS AND RIVERS AFFECTED
    MUDDY CREEK
    SALT FORK RIVER

* CAUSE AND EFFECT
HEAVY RAIN...WITH RADAR ESTIMATES BETWEEN TWO TO THREE INCHES AN HOUR
HAVE FALLEN SINCE 800 AM OVER THE NORTHERN HALF OF SALINE COUNTY...
STRETCHING FROM MALTA BEND EAST TO SALINE CITY.

* FORECAST CONDITIONS
CONTINUED HEAVY RAIN BETWEEN ONE TO TWO INCHES AN HOUR WILL CONTINUE
ACROSS SALINE COUNTY THROUGH 1100 AM. PERSONS ALONG ROUTES 41...65
AND 240 CAN EXPECT PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND SHARP RISES IN
CREEKS AND STREAMS. PERSONS CAMPING NEAR ARROW ROCK STATE PARK SHOULD
BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. THE HEAVIEST RAIN
WILL BE MOST CONCENTRATED EAST OF A SHARON-MARSHALL-MARSHALL JUNCTION
LINE THROUGH 1100 AM.

MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOOD WATERS THREATEN.

SMITH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 4:09 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXRandolph3 hr
Jun 22, 8:25 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXChariton, Howard, Randolph3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 1997Every 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.