Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 23, 1998, 8:58 AM CDT for Leavenworth County, Wyandotte County, Kansas; Clay County, Platte County, Missouri. It was in force for 92 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 23, 1998, 8:58 AM CDT (13:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1998, 10:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 92 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Leavenworth County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Clay County, MO, Platte County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 295 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -320 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1317 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMCI 231356 FFWMCI KSC103-209-MOC047-165-231525- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 858 AM CDT TUE JUN 23 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY IS EXTENDING THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING. * FLASH FLOOD WARNING EXTENDED FOR... LEAVENWORTH COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS WYANDOTTE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS CLAY COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN MISSOURI PLATTE COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN MISSOURI * UNTIL 1030 AM CDT * AT 855 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM JARBALO THROUGH LIBERTY...MOVING SLOWLY EAST NORTHEAST. * FROM 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN ACROSS NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE METRO AREA. WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF ONE TO ONE AND A HALF INCHES POSSIBLE...FLASH FLOODING PROBLEMS WILL LINGER UNTIL 1030 AM. THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR JOHNSON COUNTY KANSAS ANDh JACKSON COUNTY MISSOURI WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 900 AM. THESE LOCATIONS WILL LIKELY REMAIN TO THE SOUTH OF THE HEAVY RAIN. RESIDENTS ARE REMINDED TO AVOID DRIVING INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD! DJV
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 3:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Miami | 56 min |
| Jun 23, 5:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Wyandotte | 3 hr |
| Jun 23, 5:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Johnson | 3 hr |
| Jun 23, 5:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Wyandotte | 3 hr |
| Jun 23, 12:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Henry | 39 min |
| Jun 23, 1:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Henry | 44 min |
| Jun 23, 3:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson | 61 min |
| Jun 23, 4:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Lafayette | 41 min |
| Jun 23, 5:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Saline | 50 min |
| Jun 23, 5:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton | 50 min |
| Jun 23, 5:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Platte | 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.