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River Flood Warning 181, NWS Kansas City, MO

July 14, 2009Cooper County, Saline County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at Jul 14, 2009, 2:33 PM CDT for Cooper County, Saline County, Missouri. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 14, 2009, 2:33 PM CDT (19:33 UTC)
Expired
Jul 15, 2009, 1:16 AM CDT
In force
11 hr
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 19:33 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 24.98 ft at Jul 14, 2009, 6:00 PM CDT.

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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 Jul 14, 7:10 AM CDT, 7 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 7:10 AM CDT, 7 hours 23 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 14, 1:34 PM CDT, 59 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
134 PM CDT TUE JUL 14 2009

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-151800-
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-
134 PM CDT TUE JUL 14 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

VERY WARM AIR OVER SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL KANSAS WAS ONLY SLOWLY
WORKING TOWARDS THE OUTLOOK AREA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...AS CLOUD
COVER WAS HINDERING THIS MOVEMENT. IF CLOUDS CAN CLEAR BY MID
AFTERNOON...TEMPERATURES MAY JUMP QUICKLY INTO THE LOWER AND MIDDLE
90S...WITH HEAT INDICES CORRESPONDINGLY JUMPING TO AROUND 100
DEGREES.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS CENTRAL AND EASTERN
NEBRASKA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...AND PROPAGATE SOUTHEAST
TOWARDS NORTHEAST KANSAS AND NORTHWEST MISSOURI. IN ADDITION TO THIS
PROBABLE COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS...ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM
DEVELOPMENT WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE NORTHERN THIRD OF
MISSOURI...AS WARM AIR TO THE SOUTHWEST ATTEMPTS TO MOVE NORTHEAST. A
FAVORABLE COMBINATION OF WIND SHEAR AND ELEVATED INSTABILITY COULD
LEAD TO ANY OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS BECOMING SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL
AND DAMAGING WINDS THE PRIMARY THREATS.

ANY THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX THAT DEVELOPS WOULD TEND TO MOVE SOUTH
TOWARDS THE INTERSTATE 70 CORRIDOR OVERNIGHT AND INTO WEDNESDAY
MORNING. THE SEVERE THREAT...PRIMARILY IN THE FORM OF DAMAGING
WINDS...WILL CONTINUE INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING...THOUGH WILL BE LOWER
THAN FOR AREAS IN NORTHERN MISSOURI.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE ONGOING FOR AREAS ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE
MISSOURI RIVER WEDNESDAY MORNING. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY APPROACH
SEVERE LIMITS WITH STRONGER WIND GUSTS...BEFORE PROPAGATING INTO
SOUTHERN MISSOURI.

THERE WILL BE A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS BOTH WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND
THURSDAY NIGHT...GENERALLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70. ANY OF
THESE STORMS WOULD PROBABLY NOT BE SEVERE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT ACROSS
NORTHEAST KANSAS AND THE NORTHERN THIRD OF MISSOURI.

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.