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Flood Watch 8, NWS Kansas City, MO

September 3, 200819 counties in Missouri; Linn County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flood watch at Sep 3, 2008, 3:49 AM CDT for 19 counties in Missouri; Linn County, Kansas. It took effect at Sep 3, 2008, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 31 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 3, 2008, 3:49 AM CDT (08:49 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 3, 2008, 7:00 AM CDT
Expired
Sep 4, 2008, 2:05 PM CDT
In force
31 hr
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Flood severity
None

Counties Linn County, KS, Adair County, MO, 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, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Saline County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Sullivan County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 272 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2008-09-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 492 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2008-09-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 48 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
492 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
781 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
149 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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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.