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Areal Flood Warning 22, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this areal flood warning at Jul 18, 2016, 2:26 PM CDT for Atchison County, Missouri. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 18, 2016, 2:26 PM CDT (19:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 2016, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Atchison County, MO
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:25 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
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 566 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -263 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1556 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood warning 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 areal flood warning went out at Jul 18, 12:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 12:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 512 AM CDT MON JUL 18 2016 KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-191015- 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- 512 AM CDT MON JUL 18 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST...NORTH CENTRAL AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...AS WELL AS EXTREME EASTERN KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT HEAT WAVE ALREADY UNDERWAY ACROSS THE AREA WILL PERSIST THROUGHOUT THE WEEK. HEAT INDICES WILL APPROACH AND EXCEED THE CENTURY MARK FOR MANY LOCATIONS THIS AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHERN AND EASTERN MISSOURI TONIGHT. PRIMARY HAZARDS WITH ANY STRONGER STORM THAT DEVELOPS WILL BE GUSTY WINDS, HAIL, DANGEROUS CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING, AND MODERATE TO LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. MORE DETAILED INFORMATION CAN BE ACCESSED AT... HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/EAX/HWO .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY SOARING AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES EACH DAY IN ADDITION TO HIGH HUMIDITY VALUES WILL LEAD TO OPPRESSIVE HEAT INDICIES. HEAT INDEX VALUES RANGING FROM AROUND 100 DEGREES TO NEAR THE 110 DEGREE MARK WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE HOTTEST DAY ANTICIPATED TO OCCUR ON THURSDAY. MORE DETAILED INFORMATION CAN BE ACCESSED AT... HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/EAX/HWO
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 18, 1:13 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 2:22 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Gentry, Nodaway, Worth | 38 min |
| Jul 18, 3:15 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EAX | Nodaway | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 8:03 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | EAX | Gentry, Nodaway, Worth | 6 hr |
| Jul 18, 9:23 AM CDT | Excessive Heat Warning | EAX | Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell and 31 more | 6 days |
| Jul 18, 9:30 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Andrew, Nodaway | 59 hr |
| Jul 18, 9:30 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Andrew, Buchanan | 3 days |
| Jul 18, 9:30 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Andrew, Holt, Nodaway | 40 hr |
| Jul 18, 9:30 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Buchanan | 4 days |
| Jul 18, 9:30 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Platte | 5 days |
| Jul 18, 9:30 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Platte | 5 days |
| Jul 18, 9:30 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Atchison, Holt | 50 hr |
| Jul 18, 11:35 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | EAX | Atchison | 3 hr |
Nearby
Areal Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2016Every areal flood warning in 2016
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.