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Flash Flood Watch 5, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 5, 200830 counties in Missouri; 7 counties in Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood watch at Jun 5, 2008, 3:51 PM CDT for 30 counties in Missouri; 7 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jun 5, 2008, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 2008, 3:51 PM CDT (20:51 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 5, 2008, 7:00 PM CDT
Expired
Jun 6, 2008, 3:37 AM CDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Flood severity
None
All 37 counties

Atchison County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Adair County, MO, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Bates County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Henry County, MO, Holt County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Platte County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Ray County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Sullivan County, MO, Worth County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:57 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 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 140 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2008-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1646 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2008-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 316 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1646 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-402 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
885 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
316 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
392 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 Jun 5, 12:40 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 12:40 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 5, 1:02 PM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
102 PM CDT THU JUN 5 2008

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-061100-
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-
102 PM CDT THU JUN 5 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

A LARGE UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM HAS BEGUN TO LIFT OUT OF THE FOUR
CORNERS REGION. A LARGE LAYER OF WARM AIR ALOFT WILL PERSIST ACROSS
THE OUTLOOK AREA THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON HOURS WHICH WILL SUPPRESS
THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY FOR MUCH OF THE DAY. THERE IS A POTENTIAL BY
EARLY EVENING THAT THIS WARM LAYER MAY ERODE JUST ENOUGH TO ALLOW
ISOLATED SUPER CELL THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP ACROSS PORTIONS OF
NORTHWESTERN MISSOURI AND IN AREAS ALONG THE MISSOURI KANSAS BORDER.
DUE TO THE HIGH VOLUME OF INSTABILITY IN THE ATMOSPHERE...THESE
STORMS MAY BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE...WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR LARGE
HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES.

A MUCH HIGHER PROBABILITY OF THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL ARRIVE
DURING THE LATE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT HOURS. STRONG TO SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP RAPIDLY ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS AND NEBRASKA
THIS AFTERNOON WITH A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS PUSHING INTO THE
WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA DURING LIKELY AFTER 9 PM. THE
POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR DAMAGING HIGH WINDS...LARGE HAIL. ISOLATED
TORNADOES MAY ALSO BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS ACTIVITY AS INDIVIDUAL SUPER
CELLS MAY ACCOMPANY THE LINE OF STORMS THAT WILL MOVE THROUGH.

MANY RIVERS ARE ALSO RUNNING AT ABOVE NORMAL LEVELS AT THIS
TIME...ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL THIS AFTERNOON AND NIGHT WILL LIKELY
LEAD TO ADDITIONAL RIVER FLOODING AS WELL AS THE POSSIBILITY OF FLASH
FLOODING.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF OF THE
OUTLOOK AREA AFTER MIDNIGHT. SOME UNCERTAINTY EXISTS AS TO IF THIS
ACTIVITY WILL REMAIN SEVERE DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF
FRIDAY.

OTHERWISE...A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT ACROSS EASTERN KANSAS AND
WESTERN MISSOURI THROUGH 10 PM THIS EVENING. SUSTAINED SOUTH WINDS
WILL RUN BETWEEN 25 AND 35 MPH THROUGH THE DAYTIME HOURS...WITH
GUSTS TO 45 MPH POSSIBLE IN SOME LOCATIONS. WINDS WILL BEGIN TO
SUBSIDE THIS EVENING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE SOUTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM KANSAS
CITY TO KIRKSVILLE FRIDAY AFTERNOON. A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS
MAY BE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN CORNER OF THE CWA.

ANOTHER CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL ARRIVE ON SATURDAY AND PERSIST
INTO SUNDAY ACROSS NORTHERN MISSOURI. IT IS TOO EARLY TO DETERMINE IF
THIS ACTIVITY COULD BE SEVERE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED NORTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM
BUTLER TO KIRKSVILLE THIS EVENING AND THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS.

CUTTER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 9:53 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXChariton, Howard, Saline19 days
Jun 4, 10:46 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXCooper, Howard19 days
Jun 4, 10:50 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXCooper, Saline19 hr
Jun 5, 12:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAtchison44 min
Jun 5, 1:28 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEAXAtchison6 hr
Jun 5, 3:14 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXAndrew, Holt, Nodaway66 hr
Jun 5, 3:19 AM CDTWind AdvisoryEAXAndrew, Atchison, Bates, Buchanan, Cass, Clay and 8 more17 hr
Jun 5, 3:26 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXAtchison, Holt4 days
Jun 5, 6:46 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXAndrew, Nodaway52 hr
Jun 5, 11:23 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXPlatte14 days
Jun 5, 11:23 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXBuchanan11 days
Jun 5, 2:28 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXAndrew, Buchanan3 days
Jun 5, 3:42 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXPlatte13 days
Jun 5, 3:42 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXPlatte14 days
Jun 5, 6:22 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXAtchison38 min
Jun 5, 6:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAtchison, Holt, Nodaway42 min
Jun 5, 6:57 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXAtchison33 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Watches in Missouri, 2008Flash Flood Watches in Kansas, 2008Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.