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Flash Flood Watch 3, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 26, 200816 counties in Missouri; 6 counties in Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood watch at May 26, 2008, 3:52 PM CDT for 16 counties in Missouri; 6 counties in Kansas. It took effect at May 26, 2008, 9:35 PM CDT. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 2008, 3:52 PM CDT (20:52 UTC)
In effect from: May 26, 2008, 9:35 PM CDT
Expired: May 27, 2008, 9:48 AM CDT
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Flood severity: None

All 22 counties

Atchison County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Bates County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Henry County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 141 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1583 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 134 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 189 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 May 26, 3:43 PM CDT, 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 3:43 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 26, 1:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison, Nodaway	48 min
May 25, 9:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Worth	38 min
May 25, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Harrison	38 min
May 25, 10:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Harrison, Mercer	44 min
May 25, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Putnam	37 min
May 25, 10:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Daviess, Grundy, Harrison	36 min
May 25, 10:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Grundy, Mercer	26 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Watches in Missouri, 2008 Flash Flood Watches in Kansas, 2008 Every flash flood watch in 2008

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.