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Areal Flood Warning 35, NWS Kansas City, MO

September 14, 20167 counties in Missouri; Atchison County, Doniphan County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this areal flood warning at Sep 14, 2016, 5:32 AM CDT for 7 counties in Missouri; Atchison County, Doniphan County, Kansas. It was in force for 6 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 14, 2016, 5:32 AM CDT (10:32 UTC)
Expired
Sep 14, 2016, 11:30 AM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Atchison County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Clinton County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Holt County, MO, Platte County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:33 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 223 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 2016-09-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 2016-09-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 160 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
583 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
160 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
352 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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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 14, 3:38 AM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 14, 3:38 AM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 14, 5:10 AM CDT, 22 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
510 AM CDT WED SEP 14 2016

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-151015-
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-
510 AM CDT WED SEP 14 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

 THE LINE OF STORMS MOVING THROUGH THIS MORNING SHOULD DIMINISH
SOMETIME BEFORE 10 AM. THIS AFTERNOON THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR
ISOLATED STORMS SOUTH OF HWY 50. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED TODAY.

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

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

 STORMS RETURN EARLY THURSDAY MORNING AND WILL STICK AROUND THROUGH
FRIDAY NIGHT. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME BUT HEAVY
RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE, ESPECIALLY THURSDAY INTO FRIDAY.

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 14, 12:59 AM CDT, 4 hours 33 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1259 AM CDT WED SEP 14 2016

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

1053 PM     FLOOD            5 SE CAMERON            39.69N 94.17W
09/13/2016                   CALDWELL           MO   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            10 INCHES OF WATER REPORTED OVER TRI-COUNTY LINE ROAD AND
            324TH ST. OVER 100 YARD SPAN.

&&

JWELSH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 13, 7:51 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXChariton24 min
Sep 13, 8:48 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningEAXAndrew, Buchanan, Holt3 hr
Sep 13, 9:43 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXCass32 min
Sep 13, 11:44 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningEAXAndrew, Buchanan, Holt6 hr
Sep 14, 12:50 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningEAXCaldwell, Clinton, Daviess, DeKalb6 hr
Sep 14, 2:08 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXBuchanan51 hr
Sep 14, 7:31 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXAndrew, Buchanan49 hr
Sep 14, 7:31 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXBuchanan, Platte47 hr
Sep 14, 8:01 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXClay, Ray25 hr
Sep 14, 8:20 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXPlatte4 days
Sep 14, 8:20 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXPlatte4 days
Sep 14, 8:27 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXRay65 hr
Sep 14, 8:27 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXCarroll63 hr
Sep 14, 10:01 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXDaviess, Gentry42 hr
Sep 14, 10:01 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXLinn, Livingston39 hr
Sep 14, 10:01 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXCarroll, Chariton, Linn, Livingston3 days
Sep 14, 10:01 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXCarroll, Chariton4 days
Sep 14, 10:01 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXClay, Jackson, Ray4 days
Sep 14, 10:01 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXJackson, Lafayette, Ray4 days
Sep 14, 10:01 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXCarroll, Lafayette, Saline4 days
Sep 14, 10:01 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXCarroll, Chariton, Saline5 days
Sep 14, 10:01 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXChariton, Howard, Saline5 days
Sep 14, 10:01 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXCooper, Howard5 days
Sep 14, 11:20 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningEAXBuchanan, Caldwell, Clay, Clinton, Livingston, Platte and 1 more6 hr
Sep 14, 5:16 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningEAXBuchanan, Caldwell, Clay, Clinton, Livingston, Platte and 1 more15 hr
Sep 13, 9:13 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXJohnson32 min
Sep 14, 1:32 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXAtchison38 hr
Sep 14, 1:56 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXAtchison, Leavenworth47 hr
Sep 14, 7:31 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXLeavenworth66 hr

Nearby

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