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Flash Flood Watch 6, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood watch at Jun 7, 2008, 3:47 PM CDT for 37 counties in Missouri; 7 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jun 8, 2008, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 26 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 2008, 3:47 PM CDT (20:47 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 8, 2008, 7:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2008, 8:59 AM CDT
- In force
- 26 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Flood severity
- None
All 44 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, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Henry County, MO, Holt County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Sullivan County, MO, Worth County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:52 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 282 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
- 2630 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -218 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 585 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 532 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 539 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 9.7
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 7, 12:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 12:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before
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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.