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Areal Flood Warning 29, NWS Kansas City, MO

September 10, 2016Bates County, Cass County, Missouri; Johnson County, Linn County, Miami County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this areal flood warning at Sep 10, 2016, 12:43 AM CDT for Bates County, Cass County, Missouri; Johnson County, Linn County, Miami County, Kansas. It was in force for 12 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: Sep 10, 2016, 12:43 AM CDT (05:43 UTC)
Expired: Sep 10, 2016, 12:45 PM CDT
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Johnson County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Bates County, MO, Cass County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:42 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 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 102 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: 1542 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1083 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.1

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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 Sep 10, 12:05 AM CDT, 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 10, 12:05 AM CDT, 38 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 9, 5:03 AM CDT, 19 hours 40 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
503 AM CDT FRI SEP 9 2016

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-101015-
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-
503 AM CDT FRI SEP 9 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

 STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
MAIN THREATS ARE ISOLATED STRONG WINDS UP TO 60 MPH AND ISOLATED HAIL
UP TO QUARTER-SIZE. TORNADO THREAT IS MINIMAL.

WIDESPREAD 1-3 INCHES OF RAIN IS ALSO POSSIBLE. FLASH FLOODING COULD
BE A CONCERN MAINLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS
IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM SATURDAY MORNING.

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

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

 HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED THIS WEEKEND. STORM CHANCES RETURN
MONDAY EVENING.

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 9, 10:19 PM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 9, 10:28 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1028 PM CDT FRI SEP 09 2016

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1026 PM     TSTM WND GST     RAYMORE                 38.80N 94.45W
09/09/2016  E65 MPH          CASS               MO   TRAINED SPOTTER

            SOUTHSIDE OF RAYMORE

&&

SGRANA

Local storm report, Sep 9, 10:31 PM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1031 PM CDT FRI SEP 09 2016

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1013 PM     TSTM WND DMG     2 S BELTON              38.78N 94.53W
09/09/2016                   CASS               MO   PUBLIC

            TREE LIMBS DOWN THROUGHOUT AREA.

&&

JBARHAM

Local storm report, Sep 9, 10:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1046 PM CDT FRI SEP 09 2016

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1015 PM     HEAVY RAIN       1 N GARDNER             38.83N 94.93W
09/09/2016  E2.75 INCH       JOHNSON            KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

            SINCE 830 PM NEXT TO THE JOHNSON COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS.

&&

SGRANA

Local storm report, Sep 9, 11:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1103 PM CDT FRI SEP 09 2016

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0945 PM     TSTM WND DMG     2 W OLATHE              38.89N 94.86W
09/09/2016                   JOHNSON            KS   PUBLIC

            LARGE OAK TREE SPLIT IN HALF, ESTIMATED DIAMETER OF ABOUT
            2 FEET. TIME IS RADAR ESTIMATED.

&&

SGRANA

Local storm report, Sep 10, 12:36 AM CDT, 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1236 AM CDT SAT SEP 10 2016

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1000 PM     FLOOD            3 ESE OSAWATOMIE        38.49N 94.90W
09/09/2016                   MIAMI              KS   COUNTY OFFICIAL

            ROAD WASHED OUT AT 351ST AND LONESTAR RD. TIME IS RADAR
            ESTIMATED.

&&

SGRANA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 9, 7:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Buchanan	25 min
Sep 9, 9:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates	40 min
Sep 9, 9:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson	53 min
Sep 9, 9:41 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Bates, Cass	6 hr
Sep 9, 10:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Cass	44 min
Sep 9, 10:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass, Jackson	36 min
Sep 9, 10:42 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass, Cooper, Henry, Johnson, Pettis	15 hr
Sep 10, 4:25 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Johnson, Pettis	45 hr
Sep 10, 4:25 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper, Saline	4 days
Sep 10, 4:25 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper	46 hr
Sep 10, 4:25 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper	47 hr
Sep 10, 4:32 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass, Henry	53 hr
Sep 10, 5:00 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Bates	55 hr
Sep 9, 7:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Atchison, Doniphan	42 min
Sep 9, 8:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Linn	35 min
Sep 9, 8:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Linn	35 min
Sep 9, 9:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Wyandotte	29 min
Sep 9, 10:05 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Johnson	6 hr
Sep 9, 10:12 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Johnson, Miami	3 hr
Sep 10, 5:00 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Linn	4 days
Sep 10, 12:45 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Miami	3 hr

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2016 Areal Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2016 Every 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.