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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 12, 2002Chariton County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 12, 2002, 1:01 AM CDT for Chariton 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 12, 2002, 1:01 AM CDT (06:01 UTC)
Expired: May 12, 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 Chariton County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:02 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, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 234 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: 2385 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 742 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 244 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 217 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.4
Supercell composite: 11.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KEAX 120601
FFWMCI
MOC041-121000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1259 AM CDT SUN MAY 12 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CHARITON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 500 AM CDT

* AT 1257 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ALONG A LINE EXTENDING
  FROM MENDON TO REGAL...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THE SHERIFF OFFICE
  ALREADY REPORTS ROAD CLOSURES ON HIGHWAYS 11...129...D AND O. 
  THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL CAUSE ADDITIONAL RISES ON AREAS
  ALREADY SEEING FLOODING PROBLEMS.

* SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE
  WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL LEAD TO RAPID
  RISES...AND THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING...ON THE FOLLOWING STREAMS
  AND CREEKS,

  SALT CREEK...YELLOW CREEK...MUSSEL FORK. 

SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...WIEN...
SHANNONDALE...SALISBURY...ROTHVILLE...PRAIRIE HILL...MENDON...
KEYTESVILLE...DALTON AND BYNUMVILLE.

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 3970 9327 3947 9319 3931 9288 3939 9275
          3968 9272

PC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 11, 7:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Cass, Jackson	6 hr
May 11, 8:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Johnson, Lafayette	6 hr
May 11, 9:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Linn	6 hr
May 12, 12:45 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Adair, Macon	4 hr
May 12, 12:55 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll	4 hr
May 12, 12:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cooper	63 min
May 12, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates	39 min
May 12, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson	28 min
May 12, 6:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Lafayette	63 min

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.