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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 18, 2007, 6:40 PM CDT for Linn County, Miami County, Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr. 3 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
- Jun 18, 2007, 6:40 PM CDT (23:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2007, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:42 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 9:00 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 1 N Parker, KS | FARM POND OVERFLOWING ROAD AT 2300 AND DEVLON |
| Jun 18, 9:30 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 5 S Osawatomie, KS | BARRICADES PUT UP DUE TO FLOODING OVER PLUM CREEK ROAD NEAR COUNTY LINE. |
| Jun 19, 12:22 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 10 Ene Fontana, KS | CAR SUBMERGED NEAR 69 HWY AND 359TH STREET. DRIVER HAD TO SWIM TO ANOTHER VEHICLE. |
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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 398 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 675 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 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 182346 FFWEAX KSC107-121-190530- /X.NEW.KEAX.FF.W.0021.070618T2340Z-070619T0530Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 646 PM CDT MON JUN 18 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... LINN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS SOUTHERN MIAMI COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1230 AM CDT * DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT NEAR TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN WITHIN THE PAST HOUR TO THE WEST OF BEAGLE. SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE WARNED AREA FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. * RUNOFF FROM THIS RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING...ESPECIALLY IN LOW LYING AND FLOOD PRONE LOCATIONS. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...OSAWATOMIE...BEAGLE...PARKER...AND GOODRICH. SOME CREEKS AND STREAMS WHICH MAY BE AFFECTED INCLUDE MOUND CREEK AND MIDDLE CREEK. FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER COVERED BRIDGES... DIPS...OR LOW WATER CROSSINGS. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM... EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT OR IN A VEHICLE. LAT...LON 3861 9462 3806 9463 3813 9506 3863 9505 $$ SAW
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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.