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Flood Watch 5, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flood watch at Apr 17, 2008, 4:14 AM CDT for 12 counties in Missouri; Atchison County, Doniphan County, Kansas. It took effect at Apr 17, 2008, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 37 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 17, 2008, 4:14 AM CDT (09:14 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 17, 2008, 7:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 17, 2008, 7:37 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Atchison County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Holt County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Worth County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:16 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1738 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 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 Apr 17, 12:08 AM CDT, 4 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 17, 12:08 AM CDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 28 min |
| Apr 17, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson, Ray | 32 min |
| Apr 17, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Clay, Ray | 15 min |
Nearby
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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.