Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 5, 2001, 10:25 PM CDT for Clay County, Ray County, Missouri. 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 5, 2001, 10:25 PM CDT (03:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2001, 2:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Clay County, MO, Ray County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:25 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, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 449 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 760 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 293 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 7.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS53 KEAX 060327
FFWMCI
MOC047-177-060730-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1025 PM CDT TUE JUN 5 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
CLAY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI
RAY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI
* UNTIL 230 AM CDT
* AT 1025 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA
OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST FROM GLADSTONE TO
CHILLICOTHE. TWO TO THREE INCHES OF RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER
THE NEXT 2 HOURS WHICH MAY RESULT IN RAPID RISES IN CREEKS AND
STREAMS AS WELL AS FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS.
* ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL WILL LEAD TO RAPID RISES...AND THE THREAT
OF FLASH FLOODING...ON THE FOLLOWING STREAMS AND CREEKS
LITTLE PLATTE
FISHING
CROOKED
WEST FORK
EAST FORK
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 3952 9389 3945 9423 3944 9459 3914 9457
A 3914 9454 3915 9453 3915 9442 3924 9431
3922 9418 3919 9418 3919 9406 3922 9379
3952 9379
$$
18The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 9:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Andrew, Buchanan, Holt | 4 hr |
| Jun 5, 11:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Jackson | 6 hr |
| Jun 6, 3:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Clay, Ray | 119 min |
Nearby
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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.