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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 23, 1999Ray County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 23, 1999, 12:46 PM CDT for Ray County, Missouri. 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 23, 1999, 12:46 PM CDT (17:46 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 1999, 2:30 PM CDT
In force
104 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Ray County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 148 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 1999-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1054 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 1999-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 119 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
1054 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
560 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
119 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.8

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 23, 5:00 AM CDT, 7 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 5:00 AM CDT, 7 hours 46 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
500 AM CDT WED JUN 23 1999

LLJ AND WK WAVE AT H7 HELPING TO INCRS ISN LIFT OVER THE NWRN PART
OF THE CWA THIS MORNING.  DRY AIR INTRUSION APPEARS TO BE INCRSG
INTENSITY OF CONVECTION OVR NWRN ZONES. FEEL CONVECTION WL
DISSPIPATE ACRS NWRN AND CENTRAL ZONES AS DAY WEARS ON AS FOCUS
RETURNS TO QUASI-STNRY FRNTL SYSTEM SITD ACRS THE HIGH PLAINS. ALL
MODELS ARE HINTING AT QG FRONTOLYSIS OVR THE NWRN ZONES AS WELL
WHICH FURTHER SUPPORTS DECRSG CHNCS OF PRECIP.

TROPICAL MOISTURE PLUME SITD HAS SHIFTED TWD THE ANTICYC SIDE OF 250
JET.  MOST OF CWA NO LONGER ABLE TO TAP TROPICAL MOISTURE
FEED...WITH THE EXCEPTION OF SERN ZONES WHCH RMND UNDER THE NWRN
FRINGES OF THE PLUME.  SERN ZONES WL BE SITUATED UNDER THE RT
ENTRANCE REGION OF UPR JET FOR THE RMNDR OF THE DAY.  FEEL
SHRA WL CTN THRU THE DAY IN THE SE AS JET TAPS SEMI-TROP ENVIRON.

DECRSD CHNC OF POPS ACRS ALL OF CWA BY TONIGHT AS DRIER AIR
OVERSPREADS THE AREA.  HAD CHC OF SHRA/TSRA ENDING DURING THE
EVENING OVR NWRN AND CNTL ZONES...LEFT CHC OF SHRA/TSRA OVR
SERN ZONES THRUOUT THE NITE.  AS PER PRVS FCST...LEFT POPS
OUT OF ALL CWA THU/THU NITE.

BROAD-BRUSHED TEMPS FOR ALL CWA FOR TDA.  EVAP COOLING SHULD KEEP SERN
ZONES A LTL COOLER.  SLGTLY WARMER TEMPS THU WITH MORE SUN AND
BROAD-SCALE SUBSIDENCE.  SLGTLY COOLER TEMPS FOR TONIGHT DUE TO
DRIER AIR.  MADE NO CHNGS TO TEMPS IN THE EXTENDED.

.EAX...
KS...NONE.
MO...NONE.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 12:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXJackson2 hr
Jun 23, 1:53 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXLafayette2 hr
Jun 23, 2:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXClay, Jackson, Ray3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 1999Every flash flood warning in 1999

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.