Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 23, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 19, 2001, 11:01 PM CDT for Platte County, Missouri; Leavenworth County, Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 2001, 11:01 PM CDT (04:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2001, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Leavenworth County, KS, Platte County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 988 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 615 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KEAX 200400 FFWEAX KSC103-MOC165-201000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 1101 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... LEAVENWORTH COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS PLATTE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 500 AM CDT * AT 1101 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS NORTHERN LEAVENWORTH COUNTY EAST INTO MUCH OF PLATTE COUNTY. RAINFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR WILL OCCUR THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS WEDNESDAY...AND SOME AREAS WILL SEE RAINFALL TOTALS OF 3 TO 6 INCHES BY SUNRISE. A VERY SERIOUS FLASH FLOOD THREAT WILL DEVELOP IN THE WARNED AREA OVERNIGHT! * ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL WILL LEAD TO RAPID RISES...AND THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING...ON THE FOLLOWING STREAMS AND CREEKS STRANGER CREEK TONGANOXIE CREEK WOLF CREEK BEE CREEK PLATTE RIVER EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH 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. $$ BUNTING
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson | 56 min |
| Jun 20, 4:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Platte | 6 hr |
| Jun 20, 10:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Platte | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 7:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Atchison | 3 hr |
| Jun 20, 1:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Atchison | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2001Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2001Every flash flood warning in 2001
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.