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Flash Flood Watch 16, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood watch at Sep 7, 2015, 3:52 AM CDT for 9 counties in Missouri. It took effect at Sep 7, 2015, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 7, 2015, 3:52 AM CDT (08:52 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 7, 2015, 7:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Sep 8, 2015, 4:42 AM CDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Atchison County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Holt County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Worth County, MO
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:55 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 1563 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1693 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 254 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 21.9
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 Sep 7, 12:44 AM CDT, 3 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 7, 12:44 AM CDT, 3 hours 8 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 8:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Atchison | 45 min |
| Sep 7, 4:47 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EAX | Adair, Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison and 5 more | 4 hr |
| Sep 7, 10:40 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Andrew, Nodaway | 3 days |
| Sep 7, 10:40 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Andrew, Buchanan | 4 days |
| Sep 7, 10:40 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Linn, Livingston | 6 days |
| Sep 7, 10:40 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Buchanan | 8 days |
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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.