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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 24, 2004Linn County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 24, 2004, 8:09 PM CDT for Linn 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: May 24, 2004, 8:09 PM CDT (01:09 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2004, 2:15 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Linn County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:09 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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 242 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: 3762 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1037 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 253 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 327 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 6.4
Supercell composite: 25.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KEAX 250111
FFWEAX
MOC115-250715-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
809 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 215 AM CDT

* AT 804 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA.

* SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE
  WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH
  FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING
  INCLUDE...BROOKFIELD...BUCKLIN...LINNEUS...MEADVILLE...PURDIN...   
  SHELBY AND LACLEDE. SOME STREAMS AFFECTED WILL INCLUDE PARSON 
  CREEK...LOCUST CREEK...LONG BRANCH...BEAR BRANCH...WEST YELLOW 
  CREEK AND WINIGAN CREEK.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE
BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.

A FLASH FLOODING 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. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO
CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY
AUTOMOBILE.

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

LAT...LON 4001 9288 3972 9290 3973 9333 4001 9334

$$

PC

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS73 KEAX 250529
FFSEAX
MOC115-250630-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1227 AM CDT TUE MAY 25 2004

THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR LINN COUNTY HAS BEEN 
CANCELED. THE WATER ON AREA ROADWAYS HAS RECEDED AND NO ADDITIONAL 
HEAVY RAINFALL IS EXPECTED OVERNIGHT.

LAT...LON 4001 9286 3973 9289 3974 9333 4000 9335

$$

PC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 7:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Worth	43 min
May 24, 7:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Sullivan	41 min
May 24, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Holt	51 min
May 24, 7:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Sullivan	34 min
May 24, 7:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Macon	61 min
May 24, 7:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Gentry, Harrison	59 min
May 24, 7:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Andrew, Holt, Nodaway	54 min
May 24, 7:28 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Holt	6 hr
May 24, 7:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Linn	45 min
May 24, 7:39 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Nodaway	6 hr
May 24, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Mercer	44 min
May 24, 8:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	DeKalb	58 min
May 24, 8:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Macon	50 min
May 24, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan, Putnam	53 min
May 24, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Sullivan	30 min
May 24, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Adair	37 min
May 24, 8:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Macon	47 min
May 24, 9:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Platte	58 min
May 24, 9:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson, Lafayette	65 min
May 24, 9:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Macon	6 hr
May 24, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Ray	61 min
May 24, 9:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Jackson	44 min
May 24, 9:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Lafayette	83 min
May 24, 10:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Ray	65 min
May 24, 10:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Saline	63 min
May 24, 10:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass	62 min
May 24, 10:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Randolph	41 min
May 24, 11:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson	45 min
May 24, 11:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson	64 min
May 25, 2:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass	41 min
May 25, 12:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper	6 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2004 Every flash flood warning in 2004

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.