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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 6, 2007, 9:51 AM CDT for Miami County, Kansas; Cass County, Missouri. It was in force for 5 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
- May 6, 2007, 9:51 AM CDT (14:51 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2007, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Miami County, KS, Cass County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:52 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 10:00 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Harrisonville, MO | MOST ROADS IN TOWN FLOOD |
| May 6, 10:26 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Harrisonville, MO | MAJOR FLOODING IN TOWN WITH 3 FT OF WATER ACROSS COMMERCIAL ST |
| May 6, 2:15 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Osawatomie, KS | PORTIONS OF HWY 319 AND HWY 287 IN OSAWATOMIE, HWY 231 BETWEEN GARDNER AND WAVERLY RD AND HWY 239 WITH WATER ACROSS ROAD. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 1328 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1003 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 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 061453
FFWEAX
KSC121-MOC037-062000-
/X.NEW.KEAX.FF.W.0004.070506T1451Z-070506T2000Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
951 AM CDT SUN MAY 6 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
CASS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI
MIAMI COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
* UNTIL 300 PM CDT
* AT 947 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WITH TORRENTIAL RAINFALL ACROSS THE
WARNED AREA. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF OVER AN INCH IN LESS THAN 30
MINUTES HAVE OCCURRED AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE
IN PLEASANT HILL...WITH SIMILAR AMOUNTS OBSERVED ACROSS
HARRISONVILLE...PAOLA AND OSAWATOMIE. RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL LIKELY
APPROACH THREE INCHES WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR AS TORRENTIAL RAINFALL
CONTINUES.
* RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO
OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
BELTON...GARDEN CITY...HARRISONVILLE...LOUISBURG...OSAWATOMIE...
PAOLA...PECULIAR...PLEASANT HILL...RAYMORE...ARCHIE...CLEVELAND...
DREXEL...EAST LYNNE...FONTANA AND FREEMAN.
A FLASH FLOODING WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR
OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND
IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE
IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO
CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY
AUTOMOBILE.
LAT...LON 3883 9412 3845 9410 3846 9461 3839 9462
3839 9499 3873 9498 3874 9462 3883 9460
$$
BOOKBINDERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 2:38 AM CDT | Flood Watch | EAX | Atchison, Doniphan | 6 hr |
| May 6, 9:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | EAX | Atchison, Doniphan, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami and 1 more | 28 hr |
| May 6, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Miami | 44 min |
| May 6, 1:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Nodaway | 36 min |
| May 6, 1:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Holt | 33 min |
| May 6, 2:49 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Atchison, Holt, Nodaway | 8 hr |
| May 6, 3:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew, Holt, Nodaway | 33 min |
| May 6, 4:22 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Andrew, Nodaway | 8 hr |
| May 6, 5:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Gentry, Worth | 29 min |
| May 6, 5:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Gentry, Harrison | 38 min |
| May 6, 6:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Grundy, Linn, Livingston, Mercer, Putnam, Sullivan | 51 min |
| May 6, 9:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Jackson | 5 hr |
| May 6, 12:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Bates, Henry | 6 hr |
| May 6, 2:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper | 39 min |
| May 6, 4:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cass, Jackson | 6 hr |
| May 6, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Henry, Johnson, Pettis | 42 min |
| May 6, 5:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Ray | 6 hr |
| May 6, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Pettis | 41 min |
| May 6, 6:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Bates, Henry | 6 hr |
| May 6, 6:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Livingston | 6 hr |
Nearby
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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.