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River Flood Warning 302, NWS Kansas City, MO

August 21, 2010Cooper County, Saline County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at Aug 21, 2010, 5:54 AM CDT for Cooper County, Saline County, Missouri. It took effect at Aug 21, 2010, 6:39 AM CDT. It was in force for 62 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 21, 2010, 5:54 AM CDT (10:54 UTC)
In effect from: Aug 21, 2010, 6:39 AM CDT
Expired: Aug 23, 2010, 8:56 PM CDT
In force: 62 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 10:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Blackwater River near Blue Lick (BLVM7).

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 Aug 21, 3:34 AM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 21, 3:34 AM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 20, 12:46 PM CDT, 17 hours 8 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1246 PM CDT FRI AUG 20 2010

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-211800-
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-
1246 PM CDT FRI AUG 20 2010

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

THERE IS A CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH
LATE THIS EVENING ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHEASTERN KANSAS THROUGH WEST
CENTRAL MISSOURI AND INTO NORTHEAST AND CENTRAL MISSOURI.

ONGOING THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS IS EXPECTED TO GAIN
STRENGTH THIS AFTERNOON AS IT MOVES INTO A MORE UNSTABLE AIRMASS
ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHWESTERN AND NORTHERN MISSOURI. ADDITIONAL
THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP ON THE SOUTHERN END OF THIS LINE AS IT
TRACKS TO THE EAST. THE PRIMARY HAZARDS WITH ANY OF THESE STORMS
WILL BE FROM DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL.

THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY THEN GRADUALLY ORGANIZE INTO A LARGER SQUALL
LINE OR COMPLEX DURING THE EVENING HOURS...WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND
HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN PORTIONS OF
MISSOURI. THUNDERSTORMS MAY TEMPORARILY STALL OVER SOME LOCATIONS OF
CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST MISSOURI THIS EVENING...WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR
LOCALIZED FLOODING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING.

CDB

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 21, 12:43 AM CDT, 5 hours 11 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 21, 1:11 AM CDT, 4 hours 43 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
Aug 20, 7:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Howard, Randolph	45 min
Aug 20, 7:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Jackson	43 min
Aug 20, 8:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Lafayette	27 min
Aug 20, 8:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Saline	34 min
Aug 20, 9:21 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Saline	4 hr
Aug 20, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass, Jackson	15 min
Aug 20, 9:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Cooper, Howard	49 min
Aug 20, 10:05 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Ray	12 hr
Aug 20, 10:05 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll, Chariton, Saline	68 hr
Aug 20, 10:05 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll	41 hr
Aug 20, 11:37 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll, Clay, Jackson, Lafayette, Ray	5 hr
Aug 21, 12:24 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Cooper, Howard, Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis, Saline	6 hr
Aug 21, 12:51 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Randolph	11 hr
Aug 21, 12:58 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper	28 hr
Aug 21, 3:34 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Chariton, Howard, Saline	19 hr
Aug 21, 3:34 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper, Howard	30 hr
Aug 20, 7:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Wyandotte	23 min
Aug 20, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Wyandotte	18 min
Aug 20, 9:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Johnson	29 min
Aug 20, 9:05 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Johnson	4 hr
Aug 20, 10:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Johnson	5 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2010 Every river flood warning 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.