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Flash Flood Watch 6, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 11, 201515 counties in Missouri; Doniphan County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood watch at Jun 11, 2015, 4:35 AM CDT for 15 counties in Missouri; Doniphan County, Kansas. It was in force for 23 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 11, 2015, 4:35 AM CDT (09:35 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2015, 3:31 AM CDT
In force: 23 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Flood severity: None

Counties Doniphan County, KS, Adair County, MO, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Holt County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Sullivan County, MO, Worth County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:37 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 230 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: 879 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -145 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1918 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -97 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -2.3

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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 11, 4:16 AM CDT, 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 4:16 AM CDT, 19 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 10, 5:11 AM CDT, 23 hours 24 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
511 AM CDT WED JUN 10 2015

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-111015-
ATCHISON KS-MIAMI-LINN KS-DONIPHAN-LEAVENWORTH-WYANDOTTE-JOHNSON KS-
ATCHISON MO-NODAWAY-WORTH-GENTRY-HARRISON-MERCER-PUTNAM-SCHUYLER-
HOLT-ANDREW-DE KALB-DAVIESS-GRUNDY-SULLIVAN-ADAIR-BUCHANAN-CLINTON-
CALDWELL-LIVINGSTON-LINN MO-MACON-PLATTE-CLAY-RAY-CARROLL-CHARITON-
RANDOLPH-JACKSON-LAFAYETTE-SALINE-HOWARD-CASS-JOHNSON MO-PETTIS-
COOPER-BATES-HENRY-
511 AM CDT WED JUN 10 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST...NORTH CENTRAL AND
WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...AS WELL AS EXTREME EASTERN KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

 POP-UP THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHERN MISSOURI THIS EVENING WILL
HAVE THE CAPABILITY OF PRODUCING DANGEROUS CLOUD-TO-GROUND
LIGHTNING...GUSTY TO DAMAGING WINDS...AND HAIL...POSSIBLY LARGE.
WHILE THE RISK FOR TORNADOES IS LOW...THEY CANNOT BE RULED OUT.

 MORE DETAILED INFORMATION CAN BE ACCESSED AT...
 HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/EAX/HWO

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

 MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE IN THE FORECAST FOR THURSDAY WITH SIMILAR
HAZARDS POSSIBLE. THE END OF THIS WEEK THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK
WILL BE ANOTHER ACTIVE WEATHER PERIOD WITH FLOODING CONCERNS
INCREASING THIS WEEKEND.

 MORE DETAILED INFORMATION CAN BE ACCESSED AT...
 HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/EAX/HWO

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 7:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Putnam	51 min
Jun 10, 7:25 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Putnam, Schuyler	4 hr
Jun 10, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Putnam, Schuyler	44 min
Jun 11, 3:36 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Atchison, Holt, Nodaway	6 hr
Jun 11, 6:20 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Atchison, Holt	69 hr
Jun 11, 7:01 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Atchison, Holt	4 hr
Jun 11, 10:07 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Andrew, Nodaway	68 hr
Jun 11, 10:07 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan	4 days
Jun 11, 10:23 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Linn, Livingston	4 days
Jun 11, 10:23 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll, Chariton, Linn, Livingston	7 days
Jun 11, 10:23 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll, Chariton	10 days
Jun 11, 10:29 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan	8 days
Jun 11, 10:29 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Buchanan, Platte	7 days
Jun 11, 10:29 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Platte	5 days
Jun 11, 10:29 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Clay, Jackson, Ray	9 days
Jun 11, 10:29 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Jackson, Lafayette, Ray	20 days
Jun 11, 10:29 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Chariton, Howard, Saline	9 days
Jun 11, 10:29 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper, Howard	10 days
Jun 11, 10:35 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Andrew, Holt, Nodaway	62 hr
Jun 11, 10:35 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Buchanan	8 days
Jun 11, 10:35 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Platte	9 days
Jun 11, 10:35 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Platte	10 days
Jun 11, 3:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Atchison	24 min
Jun 11, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison, Holt	48 min
Jun 11, 3:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Atchison, Nodaway	33 min
Jun 11, 4:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	EAX	Atchison, Nodaway	18 min
Jun 11, 4:13 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Atchison, Holt, Nodaway	4 hr
Jun 11, 4:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Nodaway	6 min
Jun 11, 4:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Holt	29 min
Jun 11, 4:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Holt, Nodaway	28 min
Jun 11, 5:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Nodaway	33 min
Jun 11, 5:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Gentry, Nodaway, Worth	7 hr
Jun 11, 5:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Gentry, Nodaway	26 min
Jun 11, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Harrison, Worth	46 min
Jun 11, 5:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Gentry, Harrison, Worth	33 min
Jun 11, 6:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Holt, Nodaway	48 min
Jun 11, 6:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Andrew, Holt	4 hr
Jun 11, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Grundy, Harrison, Mercer	40 min
Jun 11, 6:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Gentry, Harrison, Worth	4 hr
Jun 11, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, DeKalb, Gentry	39 min
Jun 11, 6:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Grundy, Mercer, Putnam, Sullivan	50 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.