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River Flood Warning 89, NWS Kansas City, MO

April 23, 2010Cooper County, Saline County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this river flood warning at Apr 23, 2010, 10:09 AM CDT for Cooper County, Saline County, Missouri. It took effect at Apr 23, 2010, 4:50 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 23, 2010, 10:09 AM CDT (15:09 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 23, 2010, 4:50 PM CDT
Expired: Apr 30, 2010, 5:09 AM CDT
In force: 7 days
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 15:11 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 river

Written for the forecast point Blackwater River near Blue Lick (BLVM7). The gauge peaked at 31.52 ft at Apr 27, 2010, 1:00 AM CDT.

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 Apr 23, 7:30 AM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 23, 7:30 AM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 23, 6:04 AM CDT, 4 hours 5 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
604 AM CDT FRI APR 23 2010

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-241115-
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-
604 AM CDT FRI APR 23 2010

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST...NORTH CENTRAL
AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...AS WELL AS EXTREME EASTERN KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY THIS MORNING. ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER IS
EXPECTED THIS MORNING...A FEW STORMS MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL SOUTH OF
INTERSTATE 70. THE MORNING ACTIVITY WILL DIMINISH BY EARLY THIS AFTERNOON.

BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO
DEVELOP ALONG A DRY LINE IN EASTERN KANSAS WITH THE STORMS TO MOVE
NORTHEAST INTO EXTREME WESTERN MISSOURI BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON OR
THIS EVENING. THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE A FEW TORNADOES AS WELL AS LARGE
HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PROGRESS
EAST THROUGH THE REST OF THE OUTLOOK AREA DURING THE NIGHT.
HOWEVER...THE SEVERE THREAT WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH BY LATE EVENING
AS THE STORMS APPROACH A KIRKSVILLE TO MOBERLY LINE SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

AN UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL MOVE ACROSS MISSOURI ON SATURDAY. SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS WITH
LARGE HAIL POSSIBLE. AN ISOLATED TORNADO IS POSSIBLE...BUT THE
THREAT APPEARS LOW AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 23, 9:49 AM CDT, 20 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
Apr 22, 8:19 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Bates	4 days
Apr 22, 8:34 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Cass, Henry, Johnson	3 days
Apr 22, 8:34 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass, Henry	3 days
Apr 22, 10:01 PM CDT	Flood Watch	EAX	Bates, Cass, Henry, Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette	15 hr
Apr 23, 3:35 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Johnson, Pettis	3 days
Apr 23, 4:20 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Bates, Cass, Henry, Johnson	3 hr
Apr 23, 6:28 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass, Henry, Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette and 2 more	6 hr
Apr 23, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Macon, Randolph	32 min
Apr 22, 8:19 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Miami	4 days
Apr 22, 8:19 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Linn	5 days

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.