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Flash Flood Watch 7, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood watch at Jul 12, 2010, 3:32 PM CDT for Bates County, Henry County, Missouri; Linn County, Kansas. It took effect at Jul 12, 2010, 6:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 115 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 12, 2010, 3:32 PM CDT (20:32 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 12, 2010, 6:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jul 12, 2010, 7:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Linn County, KS, Bates County, MO, Henry County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 139 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 942 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -134 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 778 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 flash flood watch went out at Jul 11, 6:21 PM CDT, 21 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 11, 6:21 PM CDT, 21 hours 11 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 10:10 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Chariton, Howard, Saline | 24 hr |
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Flash Flood Watches in Missouri, 2010Flash Flood Watches in Kansas, 2010Every flash flood watch in 2010
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.