Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Watches in 2008
Flash Flood Watch 5, NWS Kansas City, MO
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.
- 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
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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</html>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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 9:53 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Chariton, Howard, Saline | 19 days |
| Jun 4, 10:46 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard | 19 days |
| Jun 4, 10:50 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper, Saline | 19 hr |
| Jun 5, 12:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 44 min |
| Jun 5, 1:28 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EAX | Atchison | 6 hr |
| Jun 5, 3:14 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Andrew, Holt, Nodaway | 66 hr |
| Jun 5, 3:19 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | EAX | Andrew, Atchison, Bates, Buchanan, Cass, Clay and 8 more | 17 hr |
| Jun 5, 3:26 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Atchison, Holt | 4 days |
| Jun 5, 6:46 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Andrew, Nodaway | 52 hr |
| Jun 5, 11:23 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Platte | 14 days |
| Jun 5, 11:23 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Buchanan | 11 days |
| Jun 5, 2:28 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Andrew, Buchanan | 3 days |
| Jun 5, 3:42 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Platte | 13 days |
| Jun 5, 3:42 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Platte | 14 days |
| Jun 5, 6:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Atchison | 38 min |
| Jun 5, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Holt, Nodaway | 42 min |
| Jun 5, 6:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Atchison | 33 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.