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River Flood Warning 29, NWS Kansas City, MO

March 24, 2009Cooper County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at Mar 24, 2009, 1:44 PM CDT for Cooper County, Missouri. It took effect at Mar 24, 2009, 8:50 PM CDT. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 24, 2009, 1:44 PM CDT (18:44 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 24, 2009, 8:50 PM CDT
Expired: Mar 25, 2009, 12:04 PM CDT
In force: 15 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Flood severity: Moderate

County Cooper County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Lamine River near Otterville (OTTM7).

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 Mar 24, 12:51 PM CDT, 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 24, 12:51 PM CDT, 53 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 24, 1:06 PM CDT, 38 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
106 PM CDT TUE MAR 24 2009

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-251815-
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-
106 PM CDT TUE MAR 24 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

THROUGH 3 PM...RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE IN
AREAS EAST OF A LINE FROM UNIONVILLE TO BROOKFIELD...MARSHALL AND
GREEN RIDGE. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED...ALTHOUGH SOME STORMS
MAY STILL HAVE SMALL HAIL. RUN OFF FROM THE ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL
CONTINUE TO AGGRAVATE LOCALIZED FLOODING PROBLEMS. PLEASE SEE AREAL
FLOOD AND RIVER FLOOD STATEMENTS FOR THE LATEST DETAILS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

THE NEXT STORM SYSTEM TO BRING HAZARDOUS WEATHER WILL BE MOVING INTO
OKLAHOMA BY FRIDAY EVENING. AS THIS STORMS SYSTEM MOVES
NORTHEAST EARLY IN THE WEEKEND...THE SURFACE LOW ASSOCIATED WITH THIS
SYSTEM IS FORECAST TO TRACK JUST SOUTH OF THE OUTLOOK AREA FRIDAY
NIGHT...MOVING INTO OHIO RIVER VALLEY ON SATURDAY.

INITIALLY AS WARM AIR IS PULLED NORTH OF THIS STORM SYSTEM THURSDAY
NIGHT AND FRIDAY...THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE IN AREAS SOUTH OF
A MACON TO KANSAS CITY LINE. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS
TIME. ON FRIDAY NIGHT AS COLDER AIR WRAPS INTO NORTHWEST MISSOURI AND
NORTHEAST KANSAS...THE PRECIPITATION MAY MIX WITH OR CHANGE OVER TO
SNOW. ON SATURDAY...THE COLDER AIR WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD OVER THE
OUTLOOK AREA...SO A RAIN SNOW MIX MAY OCCUR ACROSS MOST OF THE
NORTHERN AND CENTRAL MISSOURI AND ADJACENT AREAS OF EASTERN KANSAS. AT
THIS TIME IT IS TOO SOON TO DETERMINE IF THERE WILL BE ANY
SIGNIFICANT SNOW ACCUMULATION WITH THIS SYSTEM. HOWEVER...SINCE NO
EXTREME COLD IS EXPECTED AFTER THIS STORM SYSTEM MOVES PAST...ANY
SNOW THAT OCCURS SHOULD NOT STAY AROUND VERY LONG.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED...BUT ANY REPORTS OF FLOODING
WOULD BE APPRECIATED.

PC

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 24, 10:30 AM CDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 24, 10:50 AM CDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 24, 11:00 AM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 24, 12:53 PM CDT, 51 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 23, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison, Holt	41 min
Mar 23, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Holt	33 min
Mar 23, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Holt, Nodaway	33 min
Mar 24, 12:36 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Buchanan, Platte	5 hr
Mar 24, 1:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Daviess, Grundy, Harrison	31 min
Mar 24, 7:47 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Andrew, Nodaway	13 hr
Mar 24, 8:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates, Henry	27 min
Mar 24, 8:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Henry, Johnson	36 min
Mar 24, 8:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Lafayette, Saline	27 min
Mar 24, 8:51 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Buchanan	53 hr
Mar 24, 9:27 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Linn, Livingston	69 hr
Mar 24, 9:27 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll, Chariton, Linn, Livingston	5 days
Mar 24, 12:08 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Adair, Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison and 6 more	18 hr
Mar 24, 12:17 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan	21 hr
Mar 24, 12:41 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper, Howard	24 hr
Mar 24, 1:44 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper	34 hr
Mar 24, 2:48 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Howard	18 hr
Mar 23, 11:13 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Atchison, Doniphan	5 hr
Mar 24, 9:00 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Atchison, Leavenworth	20 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.