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Flood Watch 3, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flood watch at Mar 16, 2008, 3:05 PM CDT for 13 counties in Missouri; Linn County, Miami County, Kansas. It took effect at Mar 17, 2008, 9:14 AM CDT. It was in force for 17 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 16, 2008, 3:05 PM CDT (20:05 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 17, 2008, 9:14 AM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 18, 2008, 2:34 AM CDT
- In force
- 17 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Bates County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Henry County, MO, Howard County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Macon County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Saline County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:07 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 227 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 848 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 82 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this 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 flood watch went out at Mar 16, 12:31 PM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 16, 12:31 PM CDT, 2 hours 34 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.