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River Flood Warning 324, NWS Kansas City, MO

December 27, 2008Linn County, Livingston County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at Dec 27, 2008, 1:34 PM CST for Linn County, Livingston County, Missouri. It took effect at Dec 27, 2008, 2:44 PM CST. It was in force for 62 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 27, 2008, 1:34 PM CST (19:34 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 27, 2008, 2:44 PM CST
Expired: Dec 30, 2008, 4:36 AM CST
In force: 62 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Grand River near Chillicothe (CHZM7). The gauge peaked at 30.49 ft at Dec 28, 2008, 1:00 PM CST.

Action stage: 19 ft
Minor stage: 24 ft
Moderate stage: 28 ft
Major stage: 35 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06899680, 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 Dec 27, 11:40 AM CST, 1 hour 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 27, 11:40 AM CST, 1 hour 54 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 27, 1:01 PM CST, 33 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Dec 27, 7:34 AM CST, 6 hours before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
734 AM CST SAT DEC 27 2008

MOZ032-039-040-045-046-271400-
CHARITON-COOPER-HOWARD-PETTIS-SALINE-
734 AM CST SAT DEC 27 2008

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR PETTIS...SALINE...SOUTHERN
CHARITON...WESTERN COOPER AND WESTERN HOWARD COUNTIES UNTIL 800 AM
CST...

AT 730 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM MALTA BEND TO 8
MILES SOUTH OF MARSHALL TO 6 MILES EAST OF HOUSTONIA TO GREEN
RIDGE...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.

WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS.

THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  SEDALIA BY 740 AM CST.
  SLATER BY 745 AM CST.
  SMITHTON BY 750 AM CST.
  GLASGOW...PILOT GROVE AND OTTERVILLE BY 755 AM CST.
  NEW FRANKLIN...BOONVILLE AND BUNCETON BY 800 AM CST.

THE TOWNS OF HUGHESVILLE...SEDALIA MEMORIAL AIRPORT...NELSON...
BLACKWATER...CLIFTON CITY...ARROW ROCK...GILLIAM...LAMINE AND
FRANKLIN ARE ALSO IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS.

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Local storm report, Dec 27, 7:59 AM CST, 5 hours 35 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
759 AM CST SAT DEC 27 2008

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

0459 AM     TSTM WND GST     4 N LEES SUMMIT         38.97N 94.38W
12/27/2008  M63.00 MPH       JACKSON            MO   ASOS

            CORRECTED LAT AND LON OF REPORT

&&

ABAILEY

Local storm report, Dec 27, 9:02 AM CST, 4 hours 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
902 AM CST SAT DEC 27 2008

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

0700 AM     FLASH FLOOD      5 S CONCORDIA           38.91N 93.56W
12/27/2008                   JOHNSON            MO   EMERGENCY MNGR

            HWY 23 CLOSED AT BLACKWATER FROM FLOODING.

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Local storm report, Dec 27, 10:30 AM CST, 3 hours 4 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 26, 10:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Daviess, Grundy, Linn, Livingston	46 min
Dec 26, 10:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson, Lafayette, Ray	33 min
Dec 27, 1:17 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Chariton, Cooper, Howard, Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis and 2 more	6 hr
Dec 27, 4:36 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Jackson, Platte	24 min
Dec 27, 4:50 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass, Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette	40 min
Dec 27, 4:58 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Jackson, Lafayette, Ray	32 min
Dec 27, 5:13 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll, Clay, Jackson, Ray	47 min
Dec 27, 5:30 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll, Cass, Johnson, Lafayette, Ray, Saline	30 min
Dec 27, 5:36 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass	39 min
Dec 27, 5:36 AM CST	Freezing Rain Advisory	EAX	Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Caldwell, Clay, Clinton and 10 more	6 hr
Dec 27, 5:50 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll, Daviess, Grundy, Linn, Livingston, Mercer and 2 more	40 min
Dec 27, 6:11 AM CST	River Flood Warning	EAX	Johnson, Pettis	44 hr
Dec 27, 6:11 AM CST	River Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper, Saline	7 days
Dec 27, 7:16 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Chariton, Cooper, Howard, Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis and 2 more	9 hr
Dec 27, 8:09 AM CST	Winter Storm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan, Clinton, Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry and 5 more	3 hr
Dec 27, 9:40 AM CST	River Flood Warning	EAX	Cass, Henry, Johnson	36 hr
Dec 27, 9:58 AM CST	River Flood Warning	EAX	Chariton, Macon	35 hr
Dec 27, 10:44 AM CST	River Flood Warning	EAX	Howard	20 hr
Dec 27, 10:44 AM CST	River Flood Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass, Henry	46 hr
Dec 27, 1:42 PM CST	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll, Chariton, Linn, Livingston	5 days
Dec 27, 2:13 PM CST	River Flood Warning	EAX	Adair, Macon, Putnam, Schuyler	6 hr
Dec 27, 2:48 PM CST	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll	25 hr
Dec 27, 4:10 PM CST	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Adair, Caldwell, Carroll, Chariton, Cooper, Daviess and 16 more	47 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2008 Every 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.