Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 1, 2004, 10:01 AM CDT for Daviess 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
- Aug 1, 2004, 10:01 AM CDT (15:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2004, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Daviess County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:05 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, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 936 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -322 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1493 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KEAX 011505 FFWEAX MOC061-012100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 1001 AM CDT SUN AUG 1 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... DAVIESS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 400 PM CDT * AT 959 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL EAST OF A LINE FROM COFFEY TO JAMESON TO GALLATIN. * THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE WARNED AREA. RADAR ESTIMATES THAT 2 TO 3 INCHES HAS FALLEN SINCE 7 AM ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...ALTAMONT...CARLOW...COFFEY...GALLATIN... JAMESON...JAMESPORT ...PATTONSBURG AND WINSTON ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THE ADDITIONAL 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. LAT...LON 4012 9378 3980 9379 3981 9419 4012 9420 $$ DB
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS73 KEAX 011656 FFSEAX MOC061-012100- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 1155 AM CDT SUN AUG 1 2004 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR DAVIESS COUNTY... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES THAT THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED EAST OF DAVIESS COUNTY. HOWEVER...EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM EARLIER THUNDERSTORMS WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 4012 9380 3980 9379 3980 9418 4012 9419 $$ DB
000 WGUS73 KEAX 011821 FFSEAX MOC061-011845- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 120 PM CDT SUN AUG 1 2004 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR DAVIESS COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... EXCESS RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED OVER THE WARNED AREA. STREAMS AND CREEKS IN THE WARNED AREA HAVE RECEDED OR WERE BEGINNING TO RECEDE...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 4011 9379 3981 9379 3982 9418 4012 9421 $$ LS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Harrison | 41 min |
| Aug 1, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Mercer | 57 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.