Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Watches in 2008
Flash Flood Watch 10, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood watch at Jun 26, 2008, 11:01 PM CDT for Chariton County, Missouri. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 2008, 11:01 PM CDT (04:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2008, 11:46 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Flood severity
- None
County Chariton County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:01 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 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 237 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
- 3854 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1279 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.6
- Supercell composite
- 14.1
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood watch went out at Jun 26, 6:34 PM CDT, 4 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 6:34 PM CDT, 4 hours 27 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 26, 1:13 PM CDT, 9 hours 48 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 113 PM CDT THU JUN 26 2008 KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-271100- ATCHISON KS-MIAMI-LINN KS-DONIPHAN-LEAVENWORTH-WYANDOTTE- JOHNSON KS-ATCHISON MO-NODAWAY-WORTH-GENTRY-HARRISON-MERCER- PUTNAM-SCHUYLER-HOLT-ANDREW-DE KALB-DAVIESS-GRUNDY-SULLIVAN-ADAIR- BUCHANAN-CLINTON-CALDWELL-LIVINGSTON-LINN MO-MACON-PLATTE-CLAY- RAY-CARROLL-CHARITON-RANDOLPH-JACKSON-LAFAYETTE-SALINE-HOWARD- CASS-JOHNSON MO-PETTIS-COOPER-BATES-HENRY- 113 PM CDT THU JUN 26 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST...NORTH CENTRAL AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...AS WELL AS EXTREME EASTERN KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ONGOING THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHERN MISSOURI WILL PERSIST THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HOURS. THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BUILD SOUTHWEST TOWARD THE SAINT JOSEPH...ATCHISON AND EFFINGHAM AREAS DURING THE AFTERNOON...WITH HEAVY RAIN AND DAMAGING WINDS THE PRIMARY THREATS. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY TRACKING EASTWARD ALONG THE IOWA STATE LINE...WILL DIMINISH IN INTENSITY AS THEY MOVE INTO A MORE STABLE AIRMASS...BUT STILL WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL. THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHERN MISSOURI AND NORTHEAST KANSAS WILL BEGIN TO DIMINISH BY EARLY EVENING...WITH A LULL IN THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY EXPECTED DURING THE MID- TO LATE EVENING HOURS. AFTER MIDNIGHT...AREAS FROM ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM MOUND CITY MISSOURI TO CARROLLTON TO BOONVILLE COULD SEE MORE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY AS ANOTHER COMPLEX OF STORMS FROM IOWA DROPS SOUTHEAST THROUGH MISSOURI. THERE WILL BE A THREAT OF SOME SEVERE WEATHER WITH THESE STORMS...MAINLY IN THE FORM OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. HOWEVER...GIVEN RECENT RAINFALL TOTALS ACROSS NORTHERN MISSOURI...THERE WILL BE AN ENHANCED RISK OF FLOODING FROM ANY OF THE STORMS THAT MAY MOVE THROUGH OVERNIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THREAT FOR MORE ORGANIZED THUNDERSTORMS...INCLUDING THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER...WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS...AND FLASH FLOODING WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY EVENING ACROSS NORTHWEST MISSOURI AND NORTHEAST KANSAS. ADDITIONAL SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE LATE TONIGHT ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST MISSOURI. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY ACROSS THE ENTIRE OUTLOOK AREA FRIDAY INTO EARLY SATURDAY. SF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 10:57 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Andrew, Nodaway | 16 hr |
| Jun 27, 2:30 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Andrew, Buchanan | 36 hr |
| Jun 27, 2:09 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Buchanan | 39 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.