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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 20, 2000Miami County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 20, 2000, 5:44 PM CDT for Miami County, Kansas. 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
Jun 20, 2000, 5:44 PM CDT (22:44 UTC)
Expired
Jun 20, 2000, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Miami County, KS

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:46 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 210 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2000-06-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 460 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2000-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 226 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
460 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
876 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
226 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
263 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
6.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KEAX 202247
FFWEAX
KSC121-210300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
544 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  MIAMI COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT

* AT 545 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED VERY HEAVY RAIN 6 MILES SOUTH
  OF SOMERSET...OR 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PAOLA...MOVING EAST AT 35
  MPH.  ROADS HAVE BEEN CLOSED IN PORTIONS OF OSAWATOMIE...AND WATER
  IS COVERING THE ROADS IN MANY RURAL LOCATIONS.

* ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL WILL LEAD TO RAPID RISES...AND THE THREAT
  OF FLASH FLOODING...ON THE FOLLOWING STREAMS AND CREEKS

  BULL CREEK...WEA CREEK AND TEN MILE CREEK

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. NEVER DRIVE ACROSS A
FLOODED ROAD.

LAT...LON 3869 9506 3840 9506 3841 9462 3872 9463

LVQ

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 4:04 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXJohnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte6 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 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.