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River Flood Warning 162, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 16, 2009Cass County, Henry County, Johnson County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at Jun 16, 2009, 3:59 AM CDT for Cass County, Henry County, Johnson County, Missouri. It was in force for 53 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 16, 2009, 3:59 AM CDT (08:59 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 2009, 9:04 AM CDT
In force: 53 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Flood severity: Moderate

Counties Cass County, MO, Henry County, MO, Johnson County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Big Creek near Blairstown (BLRM7). The gauge peaked at 24.34 ft at Jun 17, 2009, 1:00 AM CDT.

Action stage: 15 ft
Minor stage: 20 ft
Moderate stage: 23 ft
Major stage: 36 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06921720, 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 Jun 16, 2:14 AM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 2:14 AM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
214 AM CDT TUE JUN 16 2009

.SHORT TERM...
FAST MOVING MCS WAS SHIFTING EAST INTO EASTERN MISSOURI EARLY THIS
MORNING. IN ITS WAKE...A COOL OUTFLOW BOUNDARY HAD PRESSED INTO SRN
AND EASTERN KANSAS. A STRONG LOW LEVEL JET WAS FOCUSING A BAND OF
CONVECTION IN SRN KANSAS WITH THE COLD POOL NORTH OF THE BOUNDARY
KEEPING THE BAND NEARLY STATIONARY. THE BAND OF CONVECTION WILL
GRADUALLY SAG ESE AS THE LLJ VEERS THIS MORNING. OTHERWISE...AN
OUTLFLOW BOUNDARY...WEAK SHORTWAVE...AND ISENTROPIC LIFT COMBINED
WITH HIGH PWAT VALUES...WAS GENERATING CONVECTION IN ERN KS. THIS
ACTIVITY WILL SLOWLY SPREAD EAST THIS MORNING...BUT GRADUALLY
DIMINISHING AS THE LLJ VEERS. THE THREAT OF SVR LOOKS LOW THIS
MORNING GIVEN THE WEAK TO MODERATE MUCAPE. THE ACTIVITY IN NRN MO
SHOULD BE MORE SCATTERED IN NATURE. WILL MAINTAIN THE FFA FOR THE
CWFA THIS MORNING...BUT THE HEAVIEST RAIN THREAT WILL BE MAINLY ALONG
AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70.

LOOKS LIKE A QUIET NIGHT TONIGHT AS A WEAK HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE BUILDS
SOUTH INTO MISSOURI...BEHIND THE WEAK SHORTWAVE TROUGH. HAVE SOME
CONCERN ABOUT ISENTROPIC LIFT LATE...BUT AT THE CURRENT TIME...THE
ISENTROPIC LIFT LOOKS WEAK.

ON THURSDAY...INCREASING HEIGHTS AND STRONG H7 CAPPING WL LIKELY
PRECLUDE THUNDERSTORMS...DESPITE A WARM FRONT RETREATING INTO THE NRN
CWA. WL MENTION A SLGHT CHC OF THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE EXTREME NRN
GRIDS. A FRONT MAY REACH INTO EXTREME NWRN MO BY FRIDAY MORNING. DUE
TO THE CAP AND THE LACK OF CONFIDENCE ON THE TIMING...WL KEEP POPS
LOW.

DB

&&

.EAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
MO...FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL NOON TUESDAY FOR MOZ001-MOZ002-MOZ003-
     MOZ004-MOZ005-MOZ006-MOZ007-MOZ008-MOZ011-MOZ012-MOZ013-
     MOZ014-MOZ015-MOZ016-MOZ017-MOZ020-MOZ021-MOZ022-MOZ023-
     MOZ024-MOZ025-MOZ028-MOZ029-MOZ030-MOZ031-MOZ032-MOZ033-
     MOZ037-MOZ038-MOZ039-MOZ040-MOZ043-MOZ044-MOZ045-MOZ046-
     MOZ053-MOZ054.

KS...FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL NOON TUESDAY FOR KSZ025-KSZ057-KSZ060-
     KSZ102-KSZ103-KSZ104-KSZ105.

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 15, 12:58 PM CDT, 15 hours 1 minute before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1258 PM CDT MON JUN 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-
1258 PM CDT MON JUN 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

IN THE WAKE OF THIS MORNINGS THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY...AN OUTFLOW
BOUNDARY HAS SPREAD ACROSS THE EXTREME SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE
OUTLOOK AREA...FROM CLINTON NORTHWESTWARD TO EMPORIA AND TOPEKA.
STRONG INSTABILITY IS DEVELOPING ALONG AND SOUTH OF THIS
BOUNDARY...WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM
DEVELOPMENT OVER THE FAR SOUTHERN AND WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE
OUTLOOK AREA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. SHOULD SEVERE STORMS DEVELOP...THE
PRIMARY THREATS WOULD BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.

ANOTHER LARGE COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO AGAIN DEVELOP
ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS MONDAY NIGHT...AND MOVE INTO THE OUTLOOK AREA
TONIGHT. THESE STORMS WILL TRY TO RIDE SOUTHEAST ALONG A HIGHLY
UNSTABLE AIRMASS SOUTH OF A SURFACE WARM FRONT FROM CENTRAL KANSAS
INTO SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI. SHOULD THESE STORMS HOLD THEIR INTENSITY
AS THEY REACH THE AREA AFTER MIDNIGHT...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS
WOULD BE THE PRIMARY THREATS. THE AREA WHICH COULD HAVE THE HIGHEST
CHANCE OF SEEING SEVERE WEATHER WOULD BE ALONG AND SOUTHWEST OF A
LINE FROM MARYVILLE TO SEDALIA.

THIS COMPLEX WILL BRING AN ADDITIONAL CHANCE FOR HEAVY AND EXCESSIVE
RAINFALL ACROSS MUCH OF THE OUTLOOK AREA...LEADING TO THE POTENTIAL
FOR LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING AND RIVER FLOODING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ONGOING ACROSS MUCH OF THE OUTLOOK AREA TUESDAY
MORNING. WHILE THE SEVERE THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE
WANING...HEAVY RAIN MAY CONTINUE THROUGH THE LATE MORNING. SHOULD
THIS THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX CLEAR THE AREA EARLY ENOUGH IN THE
DAY...STRONG INSTABILITY WILL DEVELOP LEADING TO AN ADDITIONAL THREAT
FOR STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE
LOCATION OF OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES AND OTHER LOCALIZED ENHANCEMENTS WILL
BE KEY TO THE POTENTIAL FOR THIS SEVERE WEATHER. THE PRIMARY THREATS
FOR THIS ACTIVITY WOULD BE FROM LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.

AN ADDITIONAL THREAT FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL ARRIVE THURSDAY NIGHT
INTO FRIDAY AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT. DUE TO A RATHER WARM AIRMASS
DEVELOPING AHEAD OF THIS FRONT...THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR STRONG TO
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS EASTERN KANSAS
AND EXTREME WESTERN MISSOURI...AS WELL AS SOUTH AND WEST OF A LINE
FROM MARYVILLE TO SEDALIA OVERNIGHT. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY ALSO BE
NECESSARY TUESDAY AFTERNOON. SPOTTERS ARE URGED TO REPORT HEAVY
RAINFALL TOTALS.

DUX

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 16, 1:45 AM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
145 AM CDT TUE JUN 16 2009

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

1245 AM     FLASH FLOOD      SEDALIA                 38.70N 93.23W
06/16/2009                   PETTIS             MO   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            WATER IS COMPLETELY OVER THE ROAD ON HWY O AT BOONVILLE
            AND SALEM ROADS.

&&

MELL

Local storm report, Jun 16, 2:17 AM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
217 AM CDT TUE JUN 16 2009

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

1200 AM     FLASH FLOOD      OREGON                  39.98N 95.14W
06/16/2009                   HOLT               MO   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            WATER OVER THE ROAD ON 111TH AND KINSEY CREEK. NORTH ON
            I-29 S OF HWY 120 THERE IS BARB WIRE AND DEBRIS OVER THE
            ROAD. HWY 59 EAST OF U HWY HAS MUD OVER THE ROAD BUT
            ROADS ARE PASSABLE.

&&

MELL

Local storm report, Jun 16, 2:29 AM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
229 AM CDT TUE JUN 16 2009

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

1130 PM     TSTM WND DMG     CLINTON                 38.37N 93.77W
06/15/2009                   HENRY              MO   TRAINED SPOTTER

            3 FOOT DIAMETER TREE FELL ONTO A HOUSE. NOBODY WAS
            INJURED.

&&

MELL

Special weather statement, Jun 16, 2:52 AM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
252 AM CDT TUE JUN 16 2009

KSZ105-MOZ037-043-160815-
CASS-JACKSON-JOHNSON-
252 AM CDT TUE JUN 16 2009

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR JOHNSON...NORTHWESTERN CASS AND
SOUTHERN JACKSON COUNTIES UNTIL 315 AM CDT...

AT 250 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM LAKE QUIVIRA TO
OLATHE...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

WINDS AROUND 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS.

THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  MISSION WOODS...WESTWOOD HILLS...PRAIRIE VILLAGE AND LEAWOOD AROUND
  300 AM CDT.
  GRANDVIEW AROUND 305 AM CDT.
  RAYTOWN AND BELTON AROUND 310 AM CDT.
  LAKE TAPAWINGO...BLUE SPRINGS...GREENWOOD AND LAKE WINNEBAGO AROUND
  315 AM CDT.

THE TOWNS OF LACKMANS...CLARE...HOLLIDAY...ROELAND PARK...STANLEY...
STILLWELL AND UNITY VILLAGE ARE ALSO IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS.

LAT...LON 3886 9497 3893 9490 3905 9482 3903 9413
      3888 9416 3865 9442 3872 9461 3873 9461
      3873 9464

DEROCHE

Local storm report, Jun 16, 3:05 AM CDT, 54 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
305 AM CDT TUE JUN 16 2009

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

0236 AM     LIGHTNING        2 W BUTLER              38.26N 94.38W
06/16/2009                   BATES              MO   TRAINED SPOTTER

            LIGHTNING STRIKE SET OUT BUILDING ON FIRE.

&&

MELL

Local storm report, Jun 16, 3:14 AM CDT, 45 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
314 AM CDT TUE JUN 16 2009

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

0230 AM     FLOOD            2 ENE CLINTON           38.38N 93.73W
06/16/2009                   HENRY              MO   TRAINED SPOTTER

            COUNTY ROAD NE100 FLOODED...WOMEN RESCUED FROM VEHICLE
            AND ROAD CLOSED.

&&

ADOLPHSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 7:40 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Clay	6 hr
Jun 15, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison, Holt, Nodaway	28 min
Jun 15, 9:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Bates, Cass, Jackson	49 min
Jun 15, 10:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan, Platte	28 min
Jun 15, 10:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass, Jackson	39 min
Jun 15, 10:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan, Holt	33 min
Jun 15, 10:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass, Jackson	46 min
Jun 15, 10:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Bates	31 min
Jun 15, 10:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass	29 min
Jun 15, 10:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Jackson	31 min
Jun 15, 11:05 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Bates, Cass, Clay, Jackson	5 hr
Jun 15, 11:13 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan, Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry, Harrison and 2 more	6 hr
Jun 15, 11:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Henry, Johnson	46 min
Jun 15, 11:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Henry, Johnson, Pettis	6 hr
Jun 15, 11:33 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis, Saline	12 hr
Jun 15, 11:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Johnson	37 min
Jun 15, 11:40 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll, Chariton	70 hr
Jun 15, 11:40 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Howard	21 hr
Jun 15, 11:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Henry, Pettis	32 min
Jun 15, 11:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Lafayette	36 min
Jun 16, 12:16 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Chariton, Cooper, Gentry, Harrison, Howard, Mercer and 2 more	4 days
Jun 16, 12:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cooper, Pettis	43 min
Jun 16, 12:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Carroll	30 min
Jun 16, 12:43 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Carroll, Chariton, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison, Lafayette and 2 more	6 days
Jun 16, 1:45 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Adair, Carroll, Chariton, Grundy, Linn, Livingston and 4 more	4 hr
Jun 16, 2:10 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Holt	8 hr
Jun 16, 2:28 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Adair, Putnam, Schuyler	3 hr
Jun 16, 2:45 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Cass, Clay, Jackson, Platte	6 hr
Jun 16, 2:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Jackson	23 min
Jun 16, 3:09 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass	10 hr
Jun 16, 3:29 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Jackson	7 hr
Jun 16, 3:59 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass, Henry	66 hr
Jun 16, 4:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Bates	27 min
Jun 16, 4:26 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Bates	6 hr
Jun 16, 4:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Henry	27 min
Jun 16, 4:40 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Daviess, Gentry	16 hr
Jun 16, 5:12 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Macon	12 hr
Jun 16, 5:31 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Henry, Johnson, Pettis	12 min
Jun 16, 5:41 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan	5 hr
Jun 16, 5:42 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Henry, Johnson, Pettis	12 hr
Jun 16, 8:14 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Bates	62 hr
Jun 16, 9:49 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Clay, Jackson, Ray	24 hr
Jun 16, 9:49 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Jackson, Lafayette, Ray	44 hr
Jun 16, 9:49 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll, Lafayette, Saline	52 hr
Jun 16, 9:49 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll, Chariton, Saline	3 days
Jun 16, 9:49 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Chariton, Howard, Saline	67 hr
Jun 16, 9:49 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper, Howard	4 days
Jun 16, 9:56 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Bates	31 hr
Jun 16, 12:53 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass	28 hr
Jun 16, 5:03 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Henry, Johnson, Pettis	24 hr
Jun 15, 9:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Atchison	26 min
Jun 15, 9:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison, Doniphan	29 min
Jun 16, 1:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Linn	29 min
Jun 16, 4:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Linn	32 min
Jun 16, 8:14 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Miami	62 hr
Jun 16, 8:14 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Linn	4 days

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2009 Every 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.