Alert archive / Missouri / River Flood Warnings in 2008
River Flood Warning 30, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at Mar 2, 2008, 4:37 PM CST for Andrew County, Buchanan County, Missouri. It was in force for 19 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 2, 2008, 4:37 PM CST (22:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2008, 11:28 AM CST
- In force
- 19 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Flood severity
- Moderate
Counties Andrew County, MO, Buchanan County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:37 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 102 River at Rosendale (RSDM7).
- Action stage
- 13 ft
- Minor stage
- 18 ft
- Moderate stage
- 18.11 ft
- Major stage
- 23 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record, 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 Mar 2, 4:32 PM CST, 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 2, 4:32 PM CST, 5 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 2, 1:04 PM CST, 3 hours 33 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 104 PM CST SUN MAR 2 2008 KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-031200- ATCHISON KS-MIAMI-LINN KS-DONIPHAN-LEAVENWORTH-WYANDOTTE- JOHNSON KS-ATCHISON MO-NODAWAY-WORTH-GENTRY-HARRISON-MERCER- PUTNAM-SCHUYLER-HOLT-ANDREW-DE KALB-DAVIESS-GRUNDY-SULLIVAN-ADAIR- BUCHANAN-CLINTON-CALDWELL-LIVINGSTON-LINN MO-MACON-PLATTE-CLAY- RAY-CARROLL-CHARITON-RANDOLPH-JACKSON-LAFAYETTE-SALINE-HOWARD- CASS-JOHNSON MO-PETTIS-COOPER-BATES-HENRY- 104 PM CST SUN MAR 2 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST...NORTH CENTRAL AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...AS WELL AS EXTREME EASTERN KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT JUST LIKE YESTERDAY A STRONG SOUTHERLY WIND WILL CONTINUE ACROSS WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI AND EAST CENTRAL KANSAS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HOURS. SUSTAINED WINDS FROM 25 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS OF 45 MPH OR HIGHER ARE LIKELY. THE WINDS WILL DIMINISH BY SUNSET. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ALONG AND AHEAD OF A COLD OVER CENTRAL KANSAS. THIS ACTIVITY WILL SPREAD NORTHEAST INTO NORTHEAST KANSAS AND NORTHWEST MISSOURI AHEAD AND ALONG A COLD FRONT THAT WILL MOVE INTO NORTHWEST MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON. WIDESPREAD SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED...BUT ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS ARE POSSIBLE. THESE STORMS WILL SPREAD ACROSS THE REST OF THE OUTLOOK AREA OVERNIGHT WITH ISOLATED THREAT OF SEVERE ACTIVITY DECREASING. THE UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM RESPONSIBLE FOR THE HIGH WINDS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO DRAW IN VERY HIGH LEVELS OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO. THIS WILL CREATE THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAINFALL OVER AREAS SOUTH OF AN ATCHISON KANSAS TO KIRKSVILLE LINE. BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS REGION TONIGHT. SINCE THE GROUND REMAINS RELATIVELY SATURATED AND STILL FROZEN SEVERAL INCHES BELOW THE SURFACE...A LARGE PART OF THE RAIN WILL LIKELY RUNOFF INTO AREA STREAMS AND RIVERS RESULTING IN RIVER FLOODING. IN THE WAKE OF THE COLD FRONT THE RAIN WILL START TO CHANGE OVER TO SNOW ACROSS NORTHWEST MISSOURI LATE THIS EVENING. ALTHOUGH THE WINDOW FOR SNOW TO FALL AT ANY ONE LOCATION WILL BE 6 HOURS OR LESS...WHEN THE RAIN DOES CHANGE OVER TO SNOW IT WILL LIKELY FALL RATHER HEAVILY RESULTING IN A QUICK 2 INCHES OVER NORTHWEST MISSOURI. UP TO AN INCH OF SNOW IS POSSIBLE AS FAR SOUTH AS A MACON TO THE NORTHERN SECTION OF KANSAS CITY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THE PRIMARY ENERGY ASSOCIATED WITH SUNDAY NIGHTS RAIN AND SNOW WILL EJECT OUT OF TEXAS AND THROUGH ARKANSAS ON MONDAY...RESULTING IN AN AREA OF HEAVY SNOW JUST SOUTH OF THE OUTLOOK AREA...ACROSS SOUTHERN MO. THE NORTHERN EDGE OF THE SNOW BAND COULD AFFECT AREAS FROM BUTLER AND CLINTON TO NEAR BOONVILLE WITH SOME MEASURABLE AMOUNTS OF SNOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED DUE TO WIDELY SCATTERED NATURE OF THE POTENTIALLY SEVERE STORMS. HOWEVER...SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO RELAY RAIN AND SNOW AMOUNTS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. CUTTER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 8:31 PM CST | River Flood Warning | EAX | Buchanan | 4 days |
| Mar 2, 4:03 AM CST | Wind Advisory | EAX | Bates, Cass, Clay, Henry, Jackson, Johnson and 3 more | 12 hr |
| Mar 2, 4:15 AM CST | Flood Watch | EAX | Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell and 31 more | 24 hr |
| Mar 2, 4:26 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | EAX | Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, DeKalb, Gentry, Harrison and 3 more | 20 hr |
| Mar 2, 8:51 AM CST | River Flood Warning | EAX | Linn, Livingston | 4 days |
| Mar 2, 8:51 AM CST | River Flood Warning | EAX | Carroll, Chariton, Linn, Livingston | 6 days |
| Mar 2, 8:51 AM CST | River Flood Warning | EAX | Platte | 5 days |
| Mar 2, 8:51 AM CST | River Flood Warning | EAX | Platte | 5 days |
| Mar 2, 2:17 PM CST | River Flood Warning | EAX | Daviess, Livingston | 54 hr |
Nearby
River Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2008Every river flood warning 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.