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River Flood Warning 232, NWS Kansas City, MO

October 30, 2009Cooper County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at Oct 30, 2009, 6:02 AM CDT for Cooper County, Missouri. It took effect at Oct 30, 2009, 6:17 AM CDT. It was in force for 24 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 30, 2009, 6:02 AM CDT (11:02 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 30, 2009, 6:17 AM CDT
Expired: Oct 31, 2009, 5:55 AM CDT
In force: 24 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 11:04 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 Lamine River near Otterville (OTTM7). The gauge peaked at 18.44 ft at Oct 30, 2009, 5:00 PM CDT.

Action stage: 10 ft
Minor stage: 15 ft
Moderate stage: 18 ft
Major stage: 26 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06906800, 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 Oct 29, 6:35 PM CDT, 11 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 29, 6:35 PM CDT, 11 hours 27 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 29, 12:55 PM CDT, 17 hours 7 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1255 PM CDT THU OCT 29 2009

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-301800-
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-
1255 PM CDT THU OCT 29 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

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST NORTHEAST ACROSS
THE OUTLOOK AREA THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. LOWER
AMOUNT OF INSTABILITY WILL PRECLUDE A SEVERE WEATHER THREAT...HOWEVER
SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF STRONG WINDS MAY BE POSSIBLE IN AREAS FROM
CLINTON TO WARRENSBURG..SEDALIA...AND MARSHALL IN INDIVIDUAL
THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY DEVELOP AND MORE NORTHEAST.

OTHERWISE...THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THIS ACTIVITY WILL BE ADDITIONAL
LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...ESPECIALLY IN AREAS EAST OF INTERSTATE 35.
WHILE THE PRIMARY IMPACT OF THE POTENTIAL HEAVY RAIN WILL BE ON AREA
CREEKS...STREAMS...RIVERS...AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS...LOCALIZED FLASH
FLOODING OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS AND DRAINAGE DITCHES MAY ALSO BE
POSSIBLE.

PRECIPITATION WILL EXIT THE WESTERN HALF OF THE OUTLOOK AREA BY
MIDNIGHT...WITH PRECIPITATION EXITING THE REMAINDER OF THE OUTLOOK
AREA BY FRIDAY MORNING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED...HOWEVER HEAVY RAINFALL
TOTALS WOULD BE APPRECIATED.

DUX

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 29, 7:00 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper, Howard	24 hr
Oct 29, 7:39 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper, Saline	4 days
Oct 29, 7:39 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Howard	25 hr
Oct 29, 7:39 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper	44 hr
Oct 30, 6:36 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Linn, Livingston	23 hr

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.