Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Kansas City, MO

Issued

Jun 23, 1999, 1:53 PM CDT (18:53 UTC)

Expired

Jun 23, 1999, 4:00 PM CDT

In force

2 hr

Issued by

NWS Kansas City, MO

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Lafayette County, MO

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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000 
TTAA00 KEAX 231852
FFWMCI
MOC107-232100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 
153 PM CDT WED JUN 23 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED AN

* URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  LAFAYETTE COUNTY IN MISSOURI

* UNTIL 400 PM CDT

* AT 153 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED...
  THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM
  5 MILES NORTHEAST OF ALMA TO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ALMA TO 7 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF ODESSA...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 15 MILES WEST
  OF MARSHALL TO 21 MILES NORTH OF WARRENSBURG TO 14 MILES 
  NORTHWEST OF WARRENSBURG...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.  DOPPLER 
  RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES INDICATED THAT AN INCH TO INCH AND A HALF 
  OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE 1 PM OVER NORTHERN LAFAYETTE COUNTY.  

* ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL WILL LEAD TO RAPID RISES...AND THE THREAT
  FOR URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING...ACROSS MUCH OF LAFAYETTE 
  COUNTY THROUGH 4 PM.  SOME CREEKS AND STREAMS AFFECTED INCLUDE 
  TABO CREEK AND DAVIS CREEK.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS
AND STREAMS AND COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS
OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.

AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS
IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER
GROUND IMMEDIATELY.

LAT...LON 3923 9363 3913 9410 3896 9412 3895 9370
          3896 9352x 3910 9350

HUDSON

NWS Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 23, 5:00 AM CDT, 8 hours 53 minutes earlier.

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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In the hours before

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>046-053-054-241100-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
100 PM CDT WED JUN 23 1999

...HEAVY RAIN WITH FLOODING PROBLEMS THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS PORTIONS
OF EASTERN KANSAS AND NORTHERN MISSOURI...

FORECAST:  SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THIS
AFTERNOON...MAINLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM THE KANSAS CITY
METRO AREA TO KIRKSVILLE. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL TOTALS COULD BE FROM 1
TO 2 INCHES THIS AFTERNOON.

HEAVY RAINFALL TOTALS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES THIS MORNING HAVE LEFT MANY
AREAS WITH FLASH FLOODING...MAINLY IN COUNTIES IN WEST CENTRAL
MISSOURI. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS THIS AFTERNOON WILL ONLY ADD
TO THE FLOODING PROBLEMS.

DISCUSSION: A COLD FRONT CONTINUES TO VERY SLOWLY MOVE SOUTHEAST
ACROSS MISSOURI. AS THIS FRONT MOVES SOUTH...THE RAINFALL SHOULD
TAPER OFF IN MOST AREAS FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST LATER TONIGHT.

LVQ

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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.