Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 25, 2003, 4:02 PM CDT for Andrew County, Gentry County, Nodaway County, Missouri. 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 2003, 4:02 PM CDT (21:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2003, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Andrew County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Nodaway County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:02 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 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 2175 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 803 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 368 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 10.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS53 KEAX 252103
FFWEAX
MOC003-075-147-260300-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
402 PM CDT WED JUN 25 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
ANDREW COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI
GENTRY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI
NODAWAY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI
* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
* AT 352 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA.
* RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO
OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
MARYVILLE...WHITESVILLE...STANBERRY...SAVANNAH... ROSENDALE...
ROCHESTER...RAVENWOOD...QUITMAN...PICKERING... HOPKINS...GUILFORD
AND GENTRYVILLE.
DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED OVER THREE INHCES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN
PORTIONS OF THE WARNED AREA SINCE 1 PM. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE
RAINFALL WILL LEAD TO RAPID RISES...AND THE THREAT OF FLASH
FLOODING...ON THE FOLLOWING STREAMS AND CREEKS...TURKEY
CREEK...WILDCAT CREEK...AGEE CREEK...AND THE GRAND RIVER.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
LAT...LON 4038 9425 4006 9427 4005 9464 3984 9465
3985 9489 4017 9504 4027 9504 4030 9520
4056 9519 4055 9467 4038 9466
$$
SP1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS73 KEAX 260108
FFSEAX
MOC003-075-147-260115-
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
806 PM CDT WED JUN 25 2003
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR ANDREW...GENTRY
AND NODAWAY COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED...
EXCESS RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED OVER THE WARNED AREA. IF
FLOODING HAS BEEN OBSERVED...PLEASE REPORT IT TO YOUR LOCAL LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT
HILL.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
LAT...LON 4044 9462 4040 9462 4040 9436 4009 9437
4002 9494 4048 9507
$$
NRRThe office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 1:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 57 min |
| Jun 25, 2:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson | 61 min |
| Jun 25, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Nodaway | 40 min |
| Jun 25, 2:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clinton | 28 min |
| Jun 25, 2:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Lafayette, Ray | 56 min |
| Jun 25, 2:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Grundy | 38 min |
| Jun 25, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Daviess | 45 min |
| Jun 25, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Mercer | 55 min |
| Jun 25, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Adair, Macon | 35 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.