Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 37, NWS Kansas City, MO
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 8:00 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 2 W Franklin, MO | ROUTE Z UNDER WATER |
| Jul 6, 8:05 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 2 W Franklin, MO | ROUTE 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.
- 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
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
$$
SCHMIT1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS73 KEAX 061532 FFSEAX MOC089-062130- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 1027 AM CDT TUE JUL 6 2004 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR HOWARD COUNTY... AT 1015 AM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED CONTINUED FLASH FLOODING ON ROUTE Z NEAR BARTLETT CREEK. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THUNDERSTORMS EARLIER THIS MORNING WILL CAUSE CONTINUED FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS REMAIN SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING. LAT...LON 3924 9245 3898 9259 3905 9293 3933 9277 $$ STOFLET
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 3:36 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson, Platte | 6 hr |
| Jul 6, 4:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 54 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.