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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Kansas City, MO

April 13, 1998Caldwell County, Carroll County, Livingston County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Apr 13, 1998, 1:02 PM CDT for Caldwell County, Carroll County, Livingston County, Missouri. It was in force for 4 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: Apr 13, 1998, 1:02 PM CDT (18:02 UTC)
Expired: Apr 13, 1998, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Livingston County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 182 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: 822 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -160 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 774 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 328 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 401 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 131802
FFWMCI
MOC025-033-117-132105-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
102 PM CDT MON APR 13 1998


* URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING FOR
    CALDWELL COUNTY - NORTHWESTERN MISSOURI
    NORTHERN CARROLL COUNTY - CENTRAL MISSOURI
    LIVINGSTON COUNTY - NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 400 PM CST

* SOME STREAMS AND RIVERS AFFECTED
    MUD CREEK
    SHOAL CREEK

* CAUSE AND EFFECT
RADAR ESTIMATES SHOW THAT UP TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN
CALDWELL...LIVINGSTON AND NORTHERN CARROLL COUNTIES SINCE SUNRISE.

* FORECAST CONDITIONS
THE RAIN WILL CAUSE RISES IN DRAINAGE SYSTEMS AND SMALL STREAMS...JAND
PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.

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

MAXIMUK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 13, 3:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass, Jackson	32 min
Apr 13, 4:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Lafayette	40 min
Apr 13, 9:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Lafayette	32 min
Apr 13, 10:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Carroll, Livingston	62 min
Apr 13, 11:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson	61 min
Apr 13, 11:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Ray	45 min
Apr 13, 12:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson	31 min
Apr 13, 1:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Lafayette	36 min
Apr 13, 2:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cooper, Howard	46 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 1998 Every flash flood warning in 1998

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.