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River Flood Warning 44, NWS Kansas City, MO

March 28, 2009Cooper County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at Mar 28, 2009, 6:18 PM CDT for Cooper County, Missouri. It took effect at Mar 29, 2009, 12:17 AM CDT. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 28, 2009, 6:18 PM CDT (23:18 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 29, 2009, 12:17 AM CDT
Expired: Mar 29, 2009, 4:52 AM CDT
In force: 5 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 23:21 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 28, 4:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 28, 4:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 28, 12:55 PM CDT, 5 hours 23 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1255 PM CDT SAT MAR 28 2009

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-291800-
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 SAT MAR 28 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

THE EARLY SPRING WINTER STORM WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT A LARGE PART
OF THE OUTLOOK AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE BAND OF OF
FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET FROM WEST CENTRAL INTO NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI
WILL CHANGE TO SNOW...HEAVY AT TIMES BY MID AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE
INTO THE EVENING HOURS. A QUARTER OF AN INCH OF GLAZING IS LIKELY THIS
AFTERNOON IN THE KANSAS CITY AREA...SOUTH TO WARRENSBURG...PAOLA AND
HARRISONVILLE. WITH THE STRONG WINDS SOME TREE AND POWER LINE DAMAGE
IS POSSIBLE. LESSER AMOUNTS OF ICE ARE EXPECTED IN MOUND CITY KANSAS
AND BUTLER. TOTAL ACCUMULATIONS OF SNOW AND SLEET ARE EXPECTED TO
RANGE FROM 2 TO 5 INCHES FROM KANSAS CITY NORTHEAST TO KIRKSVILLE
WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS.

OVER MUCH OF NORTHWEST MISSOURI...FROM ST JOSEPH TO BETHANY AND
PRINCETON...SNOW WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD NORTH THIS AFTERNOON AND END
THIS EVENING. ACCUMULATIONS OF SNOW ARE EXPECTED TO RANGE FROM 1 TO
2 INCHES IN ST JOSEPH AREA TO AROUND 4 INCHES IN BETHANY AND
PRINCETON.

OVER CENTRAL MISSOURI...IN THE SEDALIA AREA NORTHEAST TO
MOBERLY...THE RAIN WILL CHANGE TO FREEZING RAIN...SLEET AND SNOW
EARLY THIS EVENING AND END BY MIDNIGHT. A LIGHT GLAZING OF ICE IS
POSSIBLE WITH ONE TO TWO INCHES OF SLEET AND SNOW ACCUMULATION.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 28, 5:45 PM CDT, 33 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 28, 5:47 PM CDT, 31 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 28, 5:54 PM CDT, 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 28, 6:09 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 28, 6:17 PM CDT, 1 minute before

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Local storm report, Mar 28, 6:18 PM CDT, 0 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 28, 10:11 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Cass, Henry, Johnson	52 hr
Mar 28, 10:11 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass, Henry	70 hr
Mar 28, 11:27 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Bates	6 hr
Mar 28, 2:43 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Johnson, Pettis	43 hr
Mar 28, 2:43 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper, Saline	5 days
Mar 28, 3:13 PM CDT	Freeze Warning	EAX	Bates, Carroll, Cass, Clay, Henry, Jackson and 6 more	18 hr
Mar 28, 4:34 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper	28 hr
Mar 28, 5:47 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Howard	11 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.