Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 10, 2004, 5:26 AM CDT for Buchanan 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 10, 2004, 5:26 AM CDT (10:26 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2004, 11:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Buchanan County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 772 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1486 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 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 101029
FFWEAX
MOC021-101630-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
526 AM CDT MON MAY 10 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
BUCHANAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI
* UNTIL 1130 AM CDT
* AT 522 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA.
DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN
SINCE 4:30 AM.
* 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...ST JOSEPH...AGENCY...EASTON...ELWOOD...FAUCETT...
RUSHVILLE AND DE KALB
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE HALF TO ONE AND A HALF INCHES
ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES
AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.
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.
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.
TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY
YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
PLEASANT HILL.
LAT...LON 3980 9465 3956 9464 3955 9504 3964 9502
3981 9489
$$
DB2 follow-up statements
000
WGUS73 KEAX 101144
FFSEAX
MOC021-101545-
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
640 AM CDT MON MAY 10 2004
...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1045 AM CDT FOR BUCHANAN
COUNTY...
AT 636 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THAT THE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING THE HEAVY RAINFALL HAVE DIMINISHED
SINCE 6 AM. HOWEVER...DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT 1 TO 3 INCHES OF
RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE 4:30 AM. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS ARE
EXPECTED TO BE LESS THAN ONE HALF INCH THIS MORNING.
RUNOFF FROM THE EXCESSIVE RAINFALL THIS MORNING WILL CAUSE FLOODING
TO OCCUR...ESPECIALLY ALONG SMALL STREAMS AND NEAR LOW WATER
CROSSINGS. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
ST JOSEPH...RUSHVILLE...FAUCETT...AGENCY AND DE KALB.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THE EARLY MORNING STORMS WILL CAUSE FLOODING
OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AND NORMALLY DRY
WASHES...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
LAT...LON 3980 9464 3958 9466 3958 9505 3971 9495
3970 9488 3981 9488
$$
DB000 WGUS73 KEAX 101351 FFSEAX MOC021-101445- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 848 AM CDT MON MAY 10 2004 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR BUCHANAN COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE BACK EDGE OF A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WILL ADVANCE EAST ACROSS BUCHANAN COUNTY BETWEEN 9 AND 930 AM. NO REPORTS OF FLOODING HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM AROUND BUCHANAN COUNTY...AND AS THE RAIN ENDS THIS MORNING...SO WILL ANY THREAT FOR FLOODING FROM THIS MORNINGS ACTIVITY. 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 3979 9459 3957 9463 3957 9497 3977 9483 $$ HUDSON
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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.