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Areal Flood Warning 9, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 21, 20164 counties in Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this areal flood warning at Jun 21, 2016, 4:56 AM CDT for 4 counties in Missouri. 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: Jun 21, 2016, 4:56 AM CDT (09:56 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 2016, 11:00 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Daviess County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Worth County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:57 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

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 186 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: 1185 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2073 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.3

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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 Jun 21, 4:19 AM CDT, 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 4:19 AM CDT, 37 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 20, 5:04 AM CDT, 23 hours 52 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
504 AM CDT MON JUN 20 2016

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-211015-
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-
504 AM CDT MON JUN 20 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 THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING...MAINLY ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 70.

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

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

ANOTHER ROUND OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TUESDAY
OVER PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST MISSOURI.

HEAT INDEX VALUES MAY REACH 105 DEGREES ON WEDNESDAY.

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 21, 12:56 AM CDT, 4 hours before

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Special weather statement, Jun 21, 1:16 AM CDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 21, 1:22 AM CDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 21, 1:25 AM CDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 21, 3:09 AM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 21, 4:15 AM CDT, 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
415 AM CDT TUE JUN 21 2016

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

0414 AM     HEAVY RAIN       1 W GALLATIN            39.91N 93.98W
06/21/2016  M5.00 INCH       DAVIESS            MO   CO-OP OBSERVER

            MEASURED 5 INCHES IN RAIN GAUGE

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 20, 7:01 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Chariton, Linn, Sullivan	3 hr
Jun 20, 7:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Ray	29 min
Jun 20, 8:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Randolph	30 min
Jun 20, 10:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Caldwell	51 min
Jun 20, 11:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Clay	36 min
Jun 20, 11:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay	33 min
Jun 21, 12:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan, Platte	45 min
Jun 21, 12:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Jackson, Ray	38 min
Jun 21, 12:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson, Lafayette	41 min
Jun 21, 1:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Lafayette	44 min
Jun 21, 2:10 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry	6 hr
Jun 21, 5:26 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry, Harrison	4 hr
Jun 21, 6:42 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Grundy, Linn, Livingston	3 hr
Jun 21, 7:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Adair	27 min
Jun 21, 8:13 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry	3 hr
Jun 21, 8:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Adair	28 min
Jun 21, 8:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Andrew	27 min
Jun 21, 9:31 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Linn, Livingston	60 hr
Jun 21, 9:31 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll, Chariton, Linn, Livingston	3 days
Jun 21, 10:03 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Grundy, Linn, Livingston	117 min
Jun 21, 11:27 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Clinton, Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry, Grundy and 5 more	9 hr
Jun 21, 2:47 PM CDT	Excessive Heat Warning	EAX	Clay, Jackson, Platte	30 hr
Jun 21, 2:47 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	EAX	Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell and 28 more	30 hr

Nearby

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.