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Flash Flood Warning 37, NWS Kansas City, MO

July 6, 2004Howard County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 6, 2004, 7:56 AM CDT for Howard County, Missouri. It was in force for 12 hr. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jul 6, 2004, 7:56 AM CDT (12:56 UTC)
Expired
Jul 6, 2004, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Howard County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:57 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 6, 8:00 AM CDTFLASH FLOOD2 W Franklin, MOROUTE Z UNDER WATER
Jul 6, 8:05 AM CDTFLASH FLOOD2 W Franklin, MOROUTE Z UNDER WATER

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 256 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2004-07-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 6 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2004-07-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -90 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-459 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1391 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KEAX 061302
FFWEAX
MOC089-070100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
756 AM CDT TUE JUL 6 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE INCH TO ONE AND ONE HALF INCHES FELL 
ACROSS PORTIONS OF HOWARD COUNTY EARLY THIS MORNING. RUNOFF FROM 
THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. MINOR 
FLOODING IS ALSO FORECAST ALONG MONITEAU CREEK NEAR FAYETTE....WITH 
A MAXIMUM STAGE OF 18 FEET EXPECTED EARLY TUESDAY AFTERNOON. SOME 
OTHER LOCATIONS THAT MAY ALSO EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...  
ARMSTRONG...ESTILL...GLASGOW...NEW FRANKLIN AND FRANKLIN.


LAT...LON 3926 9245 3900 9261 3900 9281 3908 9292
      3934 9282

$$
SCHMIT
1 follow-up statement
000 
WGUS73 KEAX 061532
FFSEAX
MOC089-062130-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1027 AM CDT TUE JUL 6 2004

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR HOWARD
COUNTY...

AT 1015 AM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED CONTINUED FLASH FLOODING ON 
ROUTE Z NEAR BARTLETT CREEK.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THUNDERSTORMS EARLIER THIS MORNING WILL CAUSE 
CONTINUED FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND 
UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE 
BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS REMAIN SUBJECT 
TO FLASH FLOODING.

LAT...LON 3924 9245 3898 9259 3905 9293 3933 9277

$$

STOFLET

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 6, 3:36 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXClay, Jackson, Platte6 hr
Jul 6, 4:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJackson54 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2004Every 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.