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River Flood Warning 67, NWS Kansas City, MO

April 8, 2008Cooper County, Saline County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at Apr 8, 2008, 9:48 PM CDT for Cooper County, Saline County, Missouri. It took effect at Apr 9, 2008, 4:58 AM CDT. It was in force for 6 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 8, 2008, 9:48 PM CDT (02:48 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 9, 2008, 4:58 AM CDT
Expired: Apr 15, 2008, 7:20 AM CDT
In force: 6 days
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Cooper County, MO, Saline County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:55 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 Blackwater River near Blue Lick (BLVM7). The gauge peaked at 30.30 ft at Apr 13, 2008, 7:00 AM CDT.

Action stage: 19 ft
Minor stage: 24 ft
Moderate stage: 29 ft
Major stage: 37 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06908000, 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 Apr 8, 7:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 8, 7:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 8, 1:05 PM CDT, 8 hours 43 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
105 PM CDT TUE APR 8 2008

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-091815-
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-
105 PM CDT TUE APR 8 2008

...MORE FLOODING RAINS POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND INTO THURSDAY...

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

SCATTERED RAIN WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON...ESPECIALLY IN
NORTHWEST MISSOURI AND NORTHEAST KANSAS...BUT ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN
THAT WILL CAUSE WIDESPREAD FLOODING IS NOT EXPECTED. AREA CREEKS AND
STREAMS WILL CONTINUE TO RUN HIGH THIS AFTERNOON DUE TO THE RAIN THAT
FELL EARLIER TODAY. RIVER FLOOD WARNINGS HAVE BEEN ISSUED FOR SOME
RIVERS TO THE SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST OF KANSAS CITY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

WEDNESDAY NIGHT...A WARM FRONT WILL BE SETTING UP IN SOUTHERN
MISSOURI. A STRONG LOW LEVEL JET OVER TOPPING THIS FRONT MAY LEAD TO
AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF HEAVY RAINFALL ESPECIALLY FROM LATE WEDNESDAY
NIGHT AND INTO THURSDAY MORNING. WITH THIS RAIN OCCURRING ON TOP OF
GROUND THAT WILL STILL BE QUITE WET FROM EARLY RAINFALL...FLOODING
PROBLEMS WILL LIKELY OCCUR.

LATER ON THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND THURSDAY EVENING...SEVERE STORMS MAY
OCCUR IF SOME CLEARING CAN TAKE PLACE AHEAD OF A STRONG STORM SYSTEM
THAT WILL BE LOCATED OVER KANSAS. WITH THE STRONG SHEAR...IF THESE
STORMS DEVELOP...THEY COULD BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL...DAMAGING
WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES.

COLDER AIR WILL BE WRAPPING AROUND THE BACK SIDE OF THIS STORM SO
THAT ON FRIDAY...NORTHWEST MISSOURI AND NORTHEAST KANSAS MAY SEE RAIN
MIXING OVER TO SNOW. DURING THE FRIDAY NIGHT TO SATURDAY
TIMEFRAME...SNOW SHOWERS MAY OCCUR ACROSS NORTHEAST KANSAS AND THE
NORTHERN HALF OF MISSOURI. NO SIGNIFICANT ACCUMULATIONS OF SNOW ARE
EXPECTED. .

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION FOR REPORTS OF FLOODING MAY BE NEEDED WEDNESDAY
NIGHT AND THURSDAY. SPOTTER ACTIVATION FOR SEVERE WEATHER MAY BE
NEEDED THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND THURSDAY NIGHT.

PC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 8, 7:32 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll	12 hr
Apr 8, 8:08 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Chariton, Macon	11 hr
Apr 9, 12:03 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll, Chariton, Linn, Livingston	6 days
Apr 9, 1:00 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Linn, Livingston	4 days
Apr 9, 4:53 AM CDT	Flood Watch	EAX	Adair, Andrew, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll and 28 more	38 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.