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Flash Flood Warning 23, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 19, 2001Platte County, Missouri; Leavenworth County, Kansas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2001-06-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2001-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 179 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 19, 8:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClay, Jackson56 min
Jun 20, 4:30 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXPlatte6 hr
Jun 20, 10:00 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXPlatte3 hr
Jun 19, 7:17 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXAtchison3 hr
Jun 20, 1:30 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXAtchison3 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.