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River Flood Warning 54, NWS Kansas City, MO

March 17, 2008Cooper County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at Mar 17, 2008, 12:59 PM CDT for Cooper County, Missouri. It took effect at Mar 17, 2008, 9:35 PM CDT. It was in force for 42 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 17, 2008, 12:59 PM CDT (17:59 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 17, 2008, 9:35 PM CDT
Expired: Mar 19, 2008, 3:41 PM CDT
In force: 42 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Flood severity: Minor

County Cooper County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Petite Saline Creek near Boonville (BONM7).

Action stage: 11 ft
Minor stage: 16 ft
Moderate stage: 19.5 ft
Major stage: 26 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06909950, 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 17, 8:53 AM CDT, 4 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 17, 8:53 AM CDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 17, 12:59 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 17, 8:01 AM CDT, 4 hours 58 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
801 AM CDT MON MAR 17 2008

MOZ053-054-171330-
BATES-HENRY-
801 AM CDT MON MAR 17 2008

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR HENRY AND NORTHEASTERN BATES
COUNTIES UNTIL 830 AM CDT...

AT 757 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF APPLETON CITY...OR 10 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF BUTLER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF URICH BY 815 AM CDT.
  CLINTON BY 820 AM CDT.

THE TOWNS OF LA DUE AND HARTWELL ARE ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.

UP TO PENNY SIZE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

STOFLET

Special weather statement, Mar 17, 8:42 AM CDT, 4 hours 17 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 17, 9:35 AM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
935 AM CDT MON MAR 17 2008

MOZ037-038-043-044-171500-
CASS-JACKSON-JOHNSON-LAFAYETTE-
935 AM CDT MON MAR 17 2008

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR NORTHWESTERN CASS...NORTHWESTERN
JOHNSON...SOUTHEASTERN JACKSON AND SOUTHWESTERN LAFAYETTE COUNTIES
UNTIL 1000 AM CDT...

AT 931 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR RAYMORE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH.

THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  LEES SUMMIT AND PLEASANT HILL BY 940 AM CDT.
  LAKE LOTAWANA AND LONE JACK BY 945 AM CDT.
  OAK GROVE AND GRAIN VALLEY BY 950 AM CDT.
  ODESSA BY 1000 AM CDT.

THE TOWNS OF TARSNEY LAKES AND BATES CITY ARE ALSO IN THE PATH OF
THIS STORM.

PEA SIZED HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM IN RAYMORE. SMALL
HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

DEROCHE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 17, 9:57 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Cass, Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette	6 hr
Mar 17, 10:59 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Chariton, Cooper, Howard, Pettis, Randolph, Saline	6 hr
Mar 17, 11:47 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Bates, Cass, Cooper, Henry, Johnson, Pettis	6 hr
Mar 17, 12:02 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Cass, Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette	6 hr
Mar 17, 12:12 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Cass, Henry, Johnson	54 hr
Mar 17, 12:12 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass, Henry	55 hr
Mar 17, 12:59 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Johnson, Pettis	45 hr
Mar 17, 12:59 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper, Saline	5 days
Mar 17, 12:59 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper	24 hr
Mar 17, 12:59 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Howard	24 hr
Mar 17, 12:59 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll	45 hr
Mar 17, 1:30 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Chariton, Cooper, Howard, Pettis, Randolph, Saline	6 hr
Mar 17, 6:25 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Clay, Ray	15 hr
Mar 17, 10:35 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Linn, Miami	6 hr

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.