Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 26, 2000, 10:59 PM CDT for Johnson County, Missouri. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2000, 10:59 PM CDT (03:59 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2000, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Johnson County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -207 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1143 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS53 KEAX 270401
FFWEAX
MOC101-270700-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1059 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
JOHNSON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI
* UNTIL 200 AM CDT
* AT 1059 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED...
THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM
2 MILES WEST OF WHITEMAN AFB TO 3 MILES WEST OF CHILHOWEE...OR
ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES EAST OF WARRENSBURG TO 16 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF WARRENSBURG...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* TWO TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS OCCURRED SINCE 900 PM ACROSS THE
AREA. RIVERS AND STREAMS WERE NEAR BANKFULL AND LIKELY WILL LEAVE
THEIR BANKS PRODUCING LOCALIZED FLOODING.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT
QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY
IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
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.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY.
LAT...LON 3860 9408 3857 9405 3856 9388 3856 9353
3860 9351 3865 9353 3880 9351 3884 9355
3884 9359 3882 9360 3881 9365 3879 9367
3878 9371 3868 9389The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 53 min |
| May 26, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Daviess | 62 min |
| May 26, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay | 51 min |
| May 26, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 54 min |
| May 26, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Lafayette | 66 min |
| May 26, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Livingston | 64 min |
| May 26, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 46 min |
| May 26, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 67 min |
| May 26, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn | 60 min |
| May 26, 8:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Carroll | 26 min |
| May 26, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Saline | 55 min |
| May 26, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton | 39 min |
| May 26, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Adair, Putnam, Schuyler | 57 min |
| May 26, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Sullivan | 57 min |
| May 26, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis | 67 min |
| May 26, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Macon, Randolph | 51 min |
| May 26, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass, Johnson | 45 min |
| May 26, 9:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Johnson, Pettis | 55 min |
| May 26, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Howard | 60 min |
| May 26, 9:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Johnson | 65 min |
| May 26, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper | 60 min |
| May 26, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis | 62 min |
| May 26, 10:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper, Pettis | 3 hr |
| May 26, 11:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates | 57 min |
| May 27, 1:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper, Pettis | 6 hr |
| May 27, 2:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 46 min |
| May 27, 3:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Henry | 48 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2000Every flash flood warning in 2000
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.