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Flash Flood Watch 1, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood watch at Apr 2, 2014, 3:17 PM CDT for 8 counties in Missouri; Johnson County, Miami County, Kansas. It took effect at Apr 2, 2014, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 23 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 2, 2014, 3:17 PM CDT (20:17 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 2, 2014, 7:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2014, 6:27 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Johnson County, KS, Miami County, KS, Cass County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Saline County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:20 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 (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 485 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 448 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
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 Apr 2, 3:13 PM CDT, 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 2, 3:13 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 5:17 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Jackson | 28 min |
| Apr 2, 5:30 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Cass | 45 min |
| Apr 2, 12:02 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Johnson, Pettis | 66 hr |
| Apr 2, 12:02 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper, Saline | 7 days |
| Apr 2, 12:02 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper | 66 hr |
| Apr 2, 4:42 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Johnson | 33 min |
| Apr 2, 5:06 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Miami | 24 min |
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.