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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 26, 2000Johnson County, Missouri

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2000-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 121 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2000-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 134 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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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 9389

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 7:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJackson53 min
May 26, 7:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCaldwell, Daviess62 min
May 26, 7:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClay51 min
May 26, 7:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCass54 min
May 26, 7:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLafayette66 min
May 26, 7:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLivingston64 min
May 26, 7:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJackson46 min
May 26, 8:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson67 min
May 26, 8:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLinn60 min
May 26, 8:19 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXCarroll26 min
May 26, 8:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXSaline55 min
May 26, 8:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXChariton39 min
May 26, 8:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAdair, Putnam, Schuyler57 min
May 26, 8:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXSullivan57 min
May 26, 8:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPettis67 min
May 26, 8:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMacon, Randolph51 min
May 26, 9:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCass, Johnson45 min
May 26, 9:05 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXJohnson, Pettis55 min
May 26, 9:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXHoward60 min
May 26, 9:25 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXJohnson65 min
May 26, 9:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCooper60 min
May 26, 9:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPettis62 min
May 26, 10:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXCooper, Pettis3 hr
May 26, 11:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBates57 min
May 27, 1:35 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXCooper, Pettis6 hr
May 27, 2:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCass46 min
May 27, 3:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXHenry48 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.