Alert archive / Missouri / River Flood Warnings in 2009
River Flood Warning 119, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at May 16, 2009, 2:40 AM CDT for Johnson County, Pettis County, Missouri. It took effect at May 16, 2009, 9:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 2009, 2:40 AM CDT (07:40 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 16, 2009, 9:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- May 16, 2009, 2:02 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Flood severity
- Minor
Counties Johnson County, MO, Pettis County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:39 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 Valley City (VLYM7). The gauge peaked at 21.55 ft at May 16, 2009, 11:00 AM CDT.
- Action stage
- 17 ft
- Minor stage
- 22 ft
- Moderate stage
- 25 ft
- Major stage
- 31 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06907700, 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 May 16, 12:23 AM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 16, 12:23 AM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 15, 12:50 PM CDT, 13 hours 50 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 1250 PM CDT FRI MAY 15 2009 KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-161800- 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- 1250 PM CDT FRI MAY 15 2009 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 THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ACROSS EXTREME NORTHEASTERN KANSAS AND NORTHERN MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON ALONG AND NORTH OF A STATIONARY FRONT STRETCHING FROM JUST NORTH OF KANSAS CITY TO SOUTH OF CHILLICOTHE TO MACON. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP IN THE VICINITY OF THE WARM FRONT THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON...MAINLY BETWEEN INTERSTATE 70 AND ROUTE 36. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH ISOLATED TORNADOES POSSIBLE. BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON...A COLD FRONT WILL ENTER NORTHWESTERN MISSOURI WITH THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ALONG THE FRONT. THE FRONT IS EXPECTED TO REACH THE INTERSTATE 35 CORRIDOR BY 6 PM. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE FRONT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. HOWEVER...ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE ALONG THE FRONTAL BOUNDARIES LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. BY LATE THIS EVENING THE FRONT WILL MOVE A MOUND CITY KANSAS TO WARRENSBURG TO BOONVILLE LINE WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE COLD FRONT LIKELY EVOLVING A SQUALL LINE. THE SEVERE THREAT WITH THE SQUALL LINE WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO EXIT THE OUTLOOK AREA BY MIDNIGHT. IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER...REPETITIVE ROUNDS OF THUNDERSTORMS MAY LEAD TO THE POTENTIAL OF FLASH FLOODING AND RIVER FLOODING...ESPECIALLY FOR AREAS IN NORTHERN MISSOURI WHICH HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. DB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 7:03 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Howard | 22 hr |
| May 15, 7:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Henry | 37 min |
| May 15, 8:19 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper, Saline | 4 days |
| May 15, 8:19 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson, Ray | 25 hr |
| May 15, 8:19 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Jackson, Lafayette, Ray | 43 hr |
| May 15, 8:19 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Carroll, Lafayette, Saline | 54 hr |
| May 15, 8:19 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Carroll, Chariton, Saline | 4 days |
| May 15, 8:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard, Pettis, Saline | 4 hr |
| May 15, 9:25 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | EAX | Carroll, Chariton, Howard, Lafayette, Livingston, Macon and 2 more | 48 hr |
| May 15, 9:49 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Clay, Clinton, Platte, Ray | 40 hr |
| May 15, 11:59 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard, Pettis, Saline | 19 hr |
| May 16, 1:30 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper | 31 hr |
| May 16, 9:59 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Chariton, Howard, Saline | 3 days |
| May 16, 9:59 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard | 4 days |
| May 16, 12:08 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | EAX | Atchison | 12 hr |
Nearby
River Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2009Every river flood warning in 2009
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.