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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Apr 10, 2001, 5:29 PM CDT for Johnson County, Lafayette 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
- Apr 10, 2001, 5:29 PM CDT (22:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 10, 2001, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:31 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 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -302 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 870 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 276 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 302 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KEAX 102229 FFWMCI MOC101-107-110230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 529 PM CDT TUE APR 10 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHERN JOHNSON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI SOUTHERN LAFAYETTE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 529 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED VERY HEAVY RAIN NEAR PITTSVILLE...WITH 2 1/2 INCHES OF RAIN 20 MINUTES. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES THE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE FOR ANOTHER 30 TO 60 MINUTES...WITH THE RUNOFF LEADING TO CONTINUED FLOODING FOR SEVERAL HOURS. * ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL WILL LEAD TO RAPID RISES...AND THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING...ON THE FOLLOWING STREAMS AND CREEKS HONEY CREEK DAVIS CREEK NORTH AND SOUTH FORKS OF THE BLACKWATER 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. 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 3905 9412 3869 9412 3871 9351 3909 93N51 19
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Howard | 42 min |
| Apr 9, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 48 min |
| Apr 9, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Lafayette, Saline | 56 min |
| Apr 9, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Randolph | 48 min |
| Apr 9, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Randolph | 51 min |
| Apr 9, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates | 59 min |
| Apr 9, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Henry | 49 min |
| Apr 9, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates | 43 min |
| Apr 9, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 60 min |
| Apr 9, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis | 41 min |
| Apr 9, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 59 min |
| Apr 9, 11:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 41 min |
| Apr 9, 11:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis | 41 min |
| Apr 9, 11:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 37 min |
| Apr 9, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Lafayette | 61 min |
| Apr 10, 12:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Saline | 58 min |
| Apr 10, 12:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper | 54 min |
| Apr 10, 12:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Howard | 66 min |
| Apr 10, 1:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Lafayette | 57 min |
| Apr 10, 1:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Saline | 58 min |
| Apr 10, 2:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates | 39 min |
| Apr 10, 4:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Cass | 33 min |
| Apr 10, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 45 min |
| Apr 10, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Lafayette | 53 min |
| Apr 10, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 53 min |
| Apr 10, 5:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Cass, Johnson | 55 min |
| Apr 10, 5:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Pettis | 46 min |
| Apr 10, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Saline | 52 min |
| Apr 10, 5:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Pettis, Saline | 3 hr |
| Apr 10, 5:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Cooper | 61 min |
| Apr 10, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew | 41 min |
| Apr 10, 6:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard | 112 min |
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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.