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Flash Flood Watch 10, NWS Kansas City, MO

July 6, 201527 counties in Missouri; 5 counties in Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood watch at Jul 6, 2015, 3:44 AM CDT for 27 counties in Missouri; 5 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jul 6, 2015, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 45 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 6, 2015, 3:44 AM CDT (08:44 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 6, 2015, 7:00 PM CDT
Expired: Jul 8, 2015, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 45 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Flood severity: None

All 32 counties

Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Adair County, MO, Bates County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Henry County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Sullivan County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:48 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 nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 265 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: 87 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -242 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2320 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -84 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jul 5, 11:53 PM CDT, 3 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 11:53 PM CDT, 3 hours 51 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
Jul 6, 9:40 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Cass, Henry, Johnson	71 hr
Jul 6, 9:40 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass, Henry	3 days
Jul 6, 10:21 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Clay, Jackson, Lafayette, Platte, Ray	70 hr
Jul 6, 10:21 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll, Lafayette, Saline	4 days
Jul 6, 10:21 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll, Chariton, Saline	5 days
Jul 6, 1:53 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Gentry, Worth	3 hr
Jul 6, 2:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Harrison	34 min
Jul 6, 2:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Andrew	31 min
Jul 6, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan, Clinton, DeKalb	50 min
Jul 6, 3:19 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan	2 hr
Jul 6, 3:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan, Platte	38 min
Jul 6, 4:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Platte	13 min
Jul 6, 4:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Platte	57 min
Jul 6, 4:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Buchanan, Clay, Clinton, Platte	4 hr
Jul 6, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Jackson, Platte	39 min
Jul 6, 4:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Clay	20 min
Jul 6, 4:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Clay, Jackson, Platte	4 hr
Jul 6, 5:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	EAX	Clay, Jackson	21 min
Jul 6, 5:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Clay, Jackson, Ray	18 min
Jul 6, 5:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Jackson	24 min
Jul 6, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson, Lafayette, Ray	30 min
Jul 6, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass, Jackson	46 min
Jul 6, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll, Lafayette, Ray	45 min
Jul 6, 6:51 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Caldwell, Cass, Jackson, Lafayette, Ray	4 hr
Jul 6, 5:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte	30 min
Jul 6, 5:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Johnson, Miami	31 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.