Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Watches in 2008
Flash Flood Watch 16, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood watch at Aug 6, 2008, 4:02 AM CDT for Bates County, Cass County, Henry County, Missouri; Linn County, Miami County, Kansas. It took effect at Aug 6, 2008, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 6, 2008, 4:02 AM CDT (09:02 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 6, 2008, 7:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2008, 9:49 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Bates County, MO, Cass County, MO, Henry County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:58 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 2112 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 988 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 1:27 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EAX | Bates | 4 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.