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River Flood Warning 153, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 9, 2008Carroll County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at Jun 9, 2008, 7:48 AM CDT for Carroll County, Missouri. It took effect at Jun 9, 2008, 11:34 AM CDT. It was in force for 28 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 9, 2008, 7:48 AM CDT (12:48 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 9, 2008, 11:34 AM CDT
Expired
Jun 10, 2008, 3:49 PM CDT
In force
28 hr
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Flood severity
Minor

County Carroll County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:50 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 river

Written for the forecast point Wakenda Creek at Carrollton (CAXM7).

Action stage
10 ft
Minor stage
16 ft
Moderate stage
19 ft
Major stage
21 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06896000, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river flood warning 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 river flood warning went out at Jun 9, 6:20 AM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 6:20 AM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
620 AM CDT MON JUN 9 2008

...UPDATED AVIATION...

.DISCUSSION...

/342 AM CDT MON JUN 9 2008/
SURFACE FRONT STILL SHOWING UP IN THE PRESSURE FIELDS AS EXTENDING
FROM NEAR KIRKSVILLE TO KANSAS CITY...TO SOUTH OF WICHITA.
HOWEVER...THE EFFECTIVE BOUNDARY DUE TO THE EVENING LINE OF
CONVECTION IS FOCUSED FURTHER TO THE SOUTH. MCS OVER NORTHERN
OKLAHOMA WILL LIKELY ENHANCE THE SHORT WAVE TROUGH MOVING INTO THE
CENTRAL PLAINS THIS MORNING...AND A SURFACE LOW IS EXPECTED TO TRACK
WITH THIS COMPLEX INTO SOUTHWEST MISSOURI THIS MORNING. ALREADY
SEEING SOME HEAVIER PRECIPITATION MOVING BACK INTO EXTREME SOUTHERN
AREAS....AND THIS TREND SHOULD CONTINUE AS THE SURFACE LOW PASSES BY
TO THE SOUTH OF THE FORECAST AREA THIS MORNING...WITH WEAK BUBBLE
HIGH SETTING UP TO ITS NORTH. THUS WILL KEEP THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH
GOING FOR SOUTHERN AREAS THROUGH THE MORNING...BUT END IT BY 1 PM AS
BY THEN THE HEAVIER RAIN BAND SHOULD BE FOCUSED IN THE THETA E AXIS
ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSOURI.

FOR LATE THIS AFTERNOON...A WEAK SECONDARY SURFACE TROUGH IS SHOWING
UP IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA...ASSOCIATED WITH THE MORE NORTHERN
STREAM PORTION OF THE UPPER SHORT WAVE. FORECAST SOUNDING OFF OF THE
NAM SHOWING SOME INSTABILITY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI LATE THIS
AFTERNOON...WITH MU CAPES IN THE 1500 RANGE...BUT MOISTURE IS
LIMITED. CAN NOT RULE OUT AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM IF THERE IS
ENOUGH CONVERGENCE WITH THIS WEAK BOUNDARY...BUT CONFIDENCE IS LOW
SO WILL ONLY HAVE SLIGHT CHANCE POPS AT THIS POINT.

ON TUESDAY...SHOULD GET A BRIEF RESPITE FROM THE ACTIVE WEATHER AS
RETURN FLOW STARTS TO SET UP IN RESPONSE TO PRESSURE FALLS OVER THE
CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS AS THE NEXT UPPER SHORT WAVE MOVES INTO THE
NORTHWEST. TUESDAY NIGHT SHOWING STRONG THETA E ADVECTION THROUGH
THE CENTRAL PLAINS. MAIN FOCUS FOR STORMS SHOULD BE NORTH OF THE
FORECAST AREA...ALTHOUGH NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION THAT THEY COULD
CLIP THE EXTREME NORTHWEST PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA WHICH WILL
BE ON THE EDGE OF THE BETTER THETA E AIR.

STRONG CAP EXPECTED TO BE BUILDING IN ON WEDNESDAY AS A STRONG
SOUTHERLY FLOW CONTINUES AHEAD OF THE NEXT SHORT WAVE. BY WEDNESDAY
NIGHT...NORTHWEST AREAS MAY BECOME LESS CAPPED BY LATE IN THE
NIGHT...AS THE UPPER SHORT WAVE MOVES INTO THE NORTHERN HIGH PLAINS
AND A STRONG UPPER JET MAX MOVES INTO THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS. WITH
BETTER DYNAMICS AIMED MORE TO THE NORTH OF THE REGION...WILL LIMIT
POPS TO NORTHWEST AREAS OVERNIGHT BUT AS THE SURFACE FRONT
ASSOCIATED WITH THIS UPPER TROUGH SWINGS INTO THE REGION ON
THURSDAY...WILL KEEP THE CHANCE POPS GOING ACROSS ALL OF THE
FORECAST AREA.

PC

&&

.AVIATION...

NRN PERIPHERY OF STRATIFORM PRECIP SHIELD CURRENTLY MOVING ALONG THE
SRN EDGE OF THE TERMINAL CORRIDOR...WITH ONLY HIGHER VFR CIGS
OBSERVED UPSTREAM. PRECIP SHOULD CLEAR EAST OF TERMINALS BY MID
MORNING...AND ALTHOUGH SOME DIURNAL CU POSSIBLE ON TRAILING EDGE OF
CIRRUS SHIELD...EXPECTING THAT VFR CONDITIONS SHOULD PREVAIL FOR THE
REMAINDER OF THE TAF PERIOD. EXCEPTION MAY BE A BRIEF PERIOD OF LATE
OVERNIGHT HZ/BR WITH VERY WET SOILS...THOUGH HAVE ONLY INCLUDED A
TEMPO PERIOD AT THE FAVORED KSTJ SITE FOR THE TIME BEING.

21

&&

.EAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
MO...FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 1 PM MONDAY FOR MOZ032-MOZ033-MOZ038-
     MOZ039-MOZ040-MOZ043-MOZ044-MOZ045-MOZ046-MOZ053-MOZ054.

KS...FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 1 PM MONDAY FOR KSZ057-KSZ060-KSZ103-
     KSZ104-KSZ105.
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 9, 6:00 AM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 9, 2:14 AM CDT, 5 hours 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
214 AM CDT MON JUN 09 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0556 PM     TSTM WND DMG     BETHANY                 40.27N 94.03W
06/08/2008                   HARRISON           MO   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICE REPORTS TREE LIMBS DOWN IN CITY OF
            BETHANY.

0545 PM     TSTM WND DMG     ALBANY                  40.25N 94.33W
06/08/2008                   GENTRY             MO   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICE REPORTS A FEW POWER LINES DOWN IN
            THE CITY OF ALBANY. TIME ESTIMATED.

1010 PM     FLASH FLOOD      HOLDEN                  38.71N 93.99W
06/08/2008                   JOHNSON            MO   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            ONE LANE OF 58 HWY NEAR HOLDEN CLOSED DUE TO RISING
            WATER.

0714 PM     FLOOD            3 E MISSOURI CITY       39.24N 94.24W
06/08/2008                   CLAY               MO   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            WATER FLOODING COOLEY LAKE PARKING LOT. THE RIVER ACCESS
            GATE WAS CLOSED AT 731PM.

&&

MRD

The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 7:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJackson39 min
Jun 8, 7:52 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEAXCaldwell, Clinton, Daviess, Grundy, Linn, Livingston and 2 more6 hr
Jun 8, 8:05 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEAXAtchison, Clay, Clinton, Jackson, Platte, Ray64 hr
Jun 8, 8:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCass, Jackson38 min
Jun 8, 8:18 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXClay, Jackson, Platte3 hr
Jun 8, 8:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson43 min
Jun 8, 8:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLafayette39 min
Jun 8, 8:38 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXAtchison, Holt28 hr
Jun 8, 8:46 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXCaldwell, Carroll, Chariton, Linn, Livingston, Ray3 hr
Jun 8, 8:54 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEAXBates, Cass4 hr
Jun 9, 2:27 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXCass, Henry, Johnson57 hr
Jun 9, 2:27 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXBates, Cass, Henry67 hr
Jun 9, 2:58 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXJohnson, Pettis48 hr
Jun 9, 4:07 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXChariton, Macon21 hr
Jun 9, 5:07 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXAndrew, Nodaway17 hr
Jun 9, 11:00 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXCooper5 hr
Jun 9, 11:00 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXHoward5 hr
Jun 9, 11:00 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXCooper5 hr
Jun 9, 11:50 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningEAXAndrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Holt, Nodaway24 hr
Jun 9, 12:02 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningEAXAdair, Carroll, Chariton, Linn, Livingston, Macon and 2 more72 hr
Jun 9, 12:09 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningEAXBates, Cass23 hr
Jun 9, 2:15 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXAndrew, Buchanan19 hr
Jun 9, 6:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAtchison, Nodaway25 min
Jun 8, 7:11 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEAXJohnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte6 hr
Jun 8, 7:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson, Wyandotte42 min
Jun 8, 7:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson, Miami38 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.