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Flash Flood Watch 5, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood watch at Jun 7, 2015, 3:36 AM CDT for 13 counties in Missouri; 6 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jun 7, 2015, 4:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 2015, 3:36 AM CDT (08:36 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 7, 2015, 4:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2015, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Atchison County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Miami County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Cass County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Platte County, MO, Ray County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:37 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 271 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
- 1554 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1214 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 388 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 13.1
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 Jun 6, 11:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 11:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 52 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 3:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Worth | 32 min |
| Jun 7, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Harrison, Nodaway, Worth | 25 min |
| Jun 7, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Harrison, Worth | 32 min |
| Jun 7, 5:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Schuyler | 12 min |
| Jun 7, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Adair, Schuyler | 14 min |
| Jun 7, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Putnam, Sullivan | 36 min |
| Jun 7, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Adair, Putnam, Schuyler, Sullivan | 26 min |
| Jun 7, 6:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Grundy | 30 min |
| Jun 7, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Adair, Schuyler, Sullivan | 40 min |
| Jun 7, 6:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Adair, Daviess, Grundy, Harrison, Mercer, Putnam and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 7, 6:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Linn | 30 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in Missouri, 2015Flash Flood Watches in Kansas, 2015Every flash flood watch in 2015
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.