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Flash Flood Watch 7, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood watch at Jun 11, 2008, 3:53 AM CDT for 6 counties in Missouri; Doniphan County, Kansas. It took effect at Jun 11, 2008, 3:57 PM CDT. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 2008, 3:53 AM CDT (08:53 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 11, 2008, 3:57 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2008, 4:24 AM CDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Doniphan County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Holt County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Worth County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:54 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -378 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1703 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 420 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 11, 12:10 AM CDT, 3 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 12:10 AM CDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 6:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Holt | 25 min |
| Jun 11, 6:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Atchison | 4 hr |
| Jun 11, 8:07 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Atchison, Holt | 53 hr |
| Jun 11, 11:59 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | EAX | Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Holt | 48 hr |
| Jun 11, 2:48 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Andrew, Nodaway | 39 hr |
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.