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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 7, 2002Saline County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 7, 2002, 1:04 AM CDT for Saline 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 as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 7, 2002, 1:04 AM CDT (06:04 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 2002, 5:00 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Saline County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:06 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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 209 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3555 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 992 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 177 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 208 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 4.9
Supercell composite: 15.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KEAX 070604
FFWMCI
MOC195-071000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1258 AM CDT TUE MAY 7 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SALINE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 500 AM CDT

* AT 1256 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL NEAR MARSHALL...MOVING EAST
  AT 25 MPH.

* RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL LEAD TO RAPID 
  RISES...AND THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING...ON THE FOLLOWING 
  STREAMS AND CREEKS...

  SALT FORK...NORTH FORK OF FINNEY CREEK...SALT POND CREEK...
  CAMP CREEK.

SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...MARSHALL...
SLATER...NAPTON...MALTA BEND...GRAND PASS AND GILLIAM.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. 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.

TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY
YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
PLEASANT HILL.

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 3921 9347 3897 9347 3895 9309 3908 9298
          3923 9294 3934 9315

PC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Linn	48 min
May 6, 9:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Platte	55 min
May 6, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson	49 min
May 6, 10:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Lafayette	55 min
May 6, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Platte	60 min
May 6, 11:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cooper, Howard, Saline	58 min
May 6, 11:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson	61 min
May 6, 11:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll	59 min
May 6, 11:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay	41 min
May 6, 11:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass	63 min
May 7, 12:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates	62 min
May 7, 12:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson	60 min
May 7, 12:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Henry	96 min
May 7, 12:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Pettis	63 min
May 7, 1:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cooper	62 min
May 7, 1:16 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper	4 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2002 Every flash flood warning in 2002

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.