Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 2011
Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 2011, 1:55 PM CDT for Holt County, Missouri. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 2011, 1:55 PM CDT (18:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2011, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Major
County Holt County, MO
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 2231 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -330 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 815 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 455 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 607 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
538
WGUS53 KEAX 131855
FFWEAX
MOC087-140045-
/O.NEW.KEAX.FF.W.0011.110613T1855Z-110614T0045Z/
/00000.3.DM.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
155 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR A LEVEE FAILURE IN...
WEST CENTRAL HOLT COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI...
* UNTIL 745 PM CDT
* AT 147 PM CDT...A LEVEE ON THE MISSOURI RIVER LOCATED ALONG THE
506 RIVER MILE MARKER...WEST OF HOLT COUNTY ROAD 180 IN THE UNION
TOWNSHIP LEVEE DISTRICT HAS BEEN BREACHED CAUSING FLASH FLOODING OF
IMMEDIATELY SURROUNDING AREAS. THE BREACH IS APPROXIMATELY 75 YARDS
IN LENGTH AND IS TAKING ON HEAVY WATER AT THIS TIME.
* AFFECTED LOCATIONS INCLUDE ADJACENT AREAS NEXT TO THE RIVER.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE BIG LAKE
WEST CENTRAL HOLT COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI...
* HOLT COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS HAVE URGED RESIDENTS OF
BIG LAKE AND RURAL AREAS EAST OF THE NEWLY CONSTRUCTED...HIGH BANK
LEVEE...TO EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY AS THEIR PROPERTY IS IN IMMINENT
DANGER.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
BRIDGES...DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.
NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT OR
IN A VEHICLE.
STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL MEDIA AND LAW ENFORCEMENT FOR THE LATEST
FLOOD INFORMATION AND FORECASTS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION. YOU CAN ALSO VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE WEB PAGE FOR THE LATEST DETAILS. WWW.WEATHER.GOV/KC
&&
LAT...LON 4013 9532 4001 9533 4003 9535 4003 9540
4004 9542 4006 9542 4007 9540 4012 9540
4013 9542 4014 9543
$$
MJ/SWThe office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 5:28 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Daviess | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 5:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Daviess, Grundy, Livingston | 40 min |
| Jun 13, 5:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton, Linn | 24 min |
| Jun 13, 6:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Grundy, Linn, Livingston | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 6:34 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EAX | Chariton, Grundy, Linn, Livingston, Macon | 4 hr |
| Jun 13, 6:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Chariton | 46 min |
| Jun 13, 7:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Grundy, Linn, Livingston | 34 min |
| Jun 13, 7:13 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Macon | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 7:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Randolph | 46 min |
| Jun 13, 7:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Linn | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 7:46 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Pettis | 29 min |
| Jun 13, 7:48 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Sullivan | 42 min |
| Jun 13, 8:27 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Linn | 48 min |
| Jun 13, 8:34 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Pettis | 41 min |
| Jun 13, 8:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton, Linn, Macon | 21 min |
| Jun 13, 8:48 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Ray | 27 min |
| Jun 13, 8:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard | 24 min |
| Jun 13, 8:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard | 23 min |
| Jun 13, 9:14 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Lafayette | 31 min |
| Jun 13, 9:45 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Saline | 30 min |
| Jun 13, 10:33 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Howard | 27 min |
| Jun 13, 11:57 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Adair | 33 min |
| Jun 13, 12:00 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EAX | Atchison | 24 hr |
| Jun 13, 12:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Schuyler | 31 min |
| Jun 13, 4:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | EAX | Adair, Grundy, Harrison, Linn, Macon, Mercer and 3 more | 35 hr |
Nearby
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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.