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Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 25, 2015Saline County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 25, 2015, 8:03 PM CDT for Saline County, Missouri. It was in force for 6 hr. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 25, 2015, 8:03 PM CDT (01:03 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2015, 2:00 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Saline County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:06 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 25, 8:30 PM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	Marshall, MO	IMPASSABLE ROADS AT ODELL AND MORROW STREET, ALONG WITH MIAMI STREET AND COLLEGE IN MARSHALL.
Jun 25, 8:30 PM CDT	HEAVY RAIN 3.21	1 N Marshall, MO	SINCE 6 PM.
Jun 25, 8:52 PM CDT	HEAVY RAIN 4.16	Marshall, MO	SINCE 6 PM
Jun 25, 9:05 PM CDT	HEAVY RAIN 4.1	Marshall, MO	SINCE 6 PM

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 222 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2319 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -126 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1281 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 123 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 324 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 11.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

563 
WGUS53 KEAX 260103
FFWEAX
MOC195-260700-
/O.NEW.KEAX.FF.W.0041.150626T0103Z-150626T0700Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
803 PM CDT THU JUN 25 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL SALINE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI...

* UNTIL 200 AM CDT

* AT 803 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE      
  WARNED AREA.

* RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO
  OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  MARSHALL...SLATER AND MALTA BEND.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY.

&&

LAT...LON 3919 9287 3917 9291 3914 9291 3912 9295
      3910 9294 3910 9291 3905 9296 3901 9349
      3924 9348 3925 9342 3923 9340 3923 9337
      3922 9332 3929 9296 3927 9295 3926 9292
      3923 9293 3923 9285

$$

BLAIR

The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cooper, Howard, Pettis, Saline	49 min
Jun 25, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass, Jackson, Johnson	43 min
Jun 25, 8:01 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Platte	5 days
Jun 25, 8:01 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Platte	5 days
Jun 25, 8:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Johnson	32 min
Jun 25, 8:22 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Clay, Jackson, Ray	5 days
Jun 25, 8:32 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Linn, Livingston	58 hr
Jun 25, 9:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Clay	25 min
Jun 25, 9:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Jackson	36 min
Jun 25, 11:20 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Clinton	3 hr
Jun 25, 11:37 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Clinton	6 hr
Jun 26, 12:30 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Clay, Ray	36 hr
Jun 26, 12:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Platte	37 min
Jun 26, 12:39 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Clay, Clinton	8 hr
Jun 26, 1:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Jackson, Platte, Ray	33 min
Jun 26, 1:32 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Lafayette, Ray	6 hr
Jun 26, 1:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass, Clay, Jackson, Lafayette, Ray	47 min
Jun 26, 2:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass, Henry, Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette	37 min
Jun 26, 2:13 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Pettis, Saline	7 hr
Jun 26, 2:27 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Clay, Jackson, Platte	6 hr
Jun 26, 2:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass, Henry, Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis	52 min
Jun 26, 4:35 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Clay, Platte	35 hr
Jun 26, 4:46 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Bates, Cass	6 hr
Jun 26, 4:55 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Cooper	4 hr
Jun 26, 5:30 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Johnson, Pettis	50 hr
Jun 26, 5:30 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper	44 hr
Jun 26, 6:00 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper	4 hr
Jun 26, 7:20 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Lafayette, Ray	12 hr
Jun 26, 8:12 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Clay, Clinton	5 hr
Jun 26, 8:56 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper, Pettis, Saline	16 hr
Jun 26, 9:14 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Bates	6 hr
Jun 26, 10:17 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Adair, Putnam, Schuyler	15 hr
Jun 26, 2:52 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Bates	10 hr
Jun 26, 3:02 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass, Henry	44 hr
Jun 26, 6:52 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Cass, Henry, Johnson	36 hr
Jun 26, 6:52 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll	28 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.