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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 20, 1998Cooper County, Howard County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 20, 1998, 11:13 AM CDT for Cooper County, Howard 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: Jun 20, 1998, 11:13 AM CDT (16:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 1998, 3:15 PM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Cooper County, MO, Howard County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 249 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: 2555 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -270 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 997 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 179 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 221 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMCI 201611
FFWMCI
MOC053-089-202015-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
1113 AM CDT SAT JUN 20 1998


* URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING FOR
    COOPER COUNTY - CENTRAL MISSOURI
    HOWARD COUNTY - CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 315 PM CDT

* SOME STREAMS AND RIVERS AFFECTED
    PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS
WHERE
    URBAN DRAINAGE SYSTEMS ARE OVERWELMED AND SMALL STREAMS AND
CREEKS.


* CAUSE AND EFFECT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES MORE THAN FIVE
INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN OVER THE AREA OVERNIGHT AND THIS MORNING.

* FORECAST CONDITIONS
MORE THUNDERSTdORMS WILL MOVE SLOWLY OVER THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON.
THESE STORMS MAY ADD UP TO THREE INCHES OF ADDITIONAL RAINFALL.

DON'T DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS!  MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN
AUTOMOBILES.

$$
JHV

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 19, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass	48 min
Jun 19, 10:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cooper	48 min
Jun 19, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass	45 min
Jun 19, 11:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates	39 min
Jun 19, 11:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Henry	41 min
Jun 19, 11:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates	40 min
Jun 20, 12:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Chariton, Randolph	39 min
Jun 20, 12:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Henry	26 min
Jun 20, 12:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Pettis	42 min
Jun 20, 12:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Randolph	45 min
Jun 20, 2:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll, Lafayette	38 min
Jun 20, 3:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll	47 min
Jun 20, 5:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Harrison	38 min
Jun 20, 7:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Howard	44 min
Jun 20, 7:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Linn	48 min
Jun 20, 10:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson	46 min
Jun 20, 10:32 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Johnson, Pettis	5 hr
Jun 20, 10:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Pettis	48 min
Jun 20, 6:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Holt	40 min

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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.