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Flash Flood Watch 5, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 7, 201513 counties in Missouri; 6 counties in Kansas

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.

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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, 8.6 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 2015-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1554 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 2015-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 184 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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 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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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 3:28 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXWorth32 min
Jun 7, 3:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXHarrison, Nodaway, Worth25 min
Jun 7, 3:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXHarrison, Worth32 min
Jun 7, 5:03 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXSchuyler12 min
Jun 7, 5:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAdair, Schuyler14 min
Jun 7, 5:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPutnam, Sullivan36 min
Jun 7, 5:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAdair, Putnam, Schuyler, Sullivan26 min
Jun 7, 6:00 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXGrundy30 min
Jun 7, 6:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAdair, Schuyler, Sullivan40 min
Jun 7, 6:40 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXAdair, Daviess, Grundy, Harrison, Mercer, Putnam and 2 more6 hr
Jun 7, 6:45 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXLinn30 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.