Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 35, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 2004, 3:14 PM CDT for Clay County, Jackson 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 16, 2004, 3:14 PM CDT (20:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2004, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Clay County, MO, Jackson County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:18 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 1546 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 854 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KEAX 162015 FFWEAX MOC047-095-170215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 314 PM CDT WED JUN 16 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CLAY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI JACKSON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 313 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. RAIN GAUGES IN WESTERN JACKSON COUNTY INDICATED THAT 1.81 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN AT MAIN AND BROOKSIDE SINCE 2 PM. * 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... KANSAS CITY...AVONDALE...BLUE SPRINGS...GLADSTONE...GRAIN VALLEY... INDEPENDENCE...LIBERTY...MISSOURI CITY...NORTH KANSAS CITY... RAYTOWN...BIRMINGHAM AND CLAYCOMO DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF FLOOD WATERS. ONLY A FEW INCHES OF RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE. REMEMBER...TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN. LAT...LON 3927 9459 3898 9457 3895 9416 3930 9426 $$ HUDSON
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS73 KEAX 162302 FFSEAX MOC047-095-170230- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 601 PM CDT WED JUN 16 2004 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR JACKSON AND CLAY COUNTIES... WHILE THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED WELL EAST OF THE EASTERN METRO AREA...NUMEROUS FLOOD PROBLEMS HAVE BEEN REPORTED LATE THIS AFTERNOON. HIGH WATER RESCUES WERE PERFORMED IN THE LIBERTY AREA...AND ALSO ON THE PLAZA. RUNOFF FROM THIS AFTERNOONS RAIN WILL KEEP AREA STREAMS AND CREEKS RUNNING HIGH FOR ANOTHER FEW HOURS...THUS THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 3935 9424 3892 9422 3892 9451 3935 9457 $$ HUDSON
000 WGUS73 KEAX 170214 FFSEAX MOC047-095-170245- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 914 PM CDT WED JUN 16 2004 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR JACKSON AND CLAY COUNTIES HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... EXCESS RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED OVER THE WARNED AREA. STREAMS AND CREEKS IN THE WARNED AREA HAVE RECEDED...ENDING THE FLOOD THREAT. IF FLOODING HAS BEEN OBSERVED...PLEASE REPORT IT TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL. LAT...LON 3941 9428 3889 9428 3889 9459 3942 9460 $$ LVQ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 54 min |
Nearby
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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.