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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Kansas City, MO

April 26, 2016Cooper County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Apr 26, 2016, 11:20 AM CDT for Cooper 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 26, 2016, 11:20 AM CDT (16:20 UTC)
Expired: Apr 26, 2016, 2:15 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Cooper County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:19 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 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: 2148 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 669 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 232 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 236 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 8.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

546 
WGUS53 KEAX 261620
FFWEAX
MOC053-261915-
/O.NEW.KEAX.FF.W.0002.160426T1620Z-160426T1915Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1120 AM CDT TUE APR 26 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  COOPER COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI...

* UNTIL 215 PM CDT

* AT 1118 AM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED
  THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. FLASH
  FLOODING IS OCCURRING IN OTTERVILLE AT HIGHWAY N AND GREY WOLF
  ROAD.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  BOONVILLE...PILOT GROVE...OTTERVILLE...BUNCETON...PRAIRIE HOME...
  WOOLDRIDGE...LAMINE AND CLIFTON CITY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.

&&

LAT...LON 3868 9262 3869 9305 3870 9306 3897 9305
      3897 9256 3893 9250

$$

CUTTER

1 follow-up statement

358 
WGUS73 KEAX 261900
FFSEAX

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
200 PM CDT TUE APR 26 2016

MOC053-261910-
/O.CAN.KEAX.FF.W.0002.000000T0000Z-160426T1915Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
COOPER MO-
200 PM CDT TUE APR 26 2016

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR COOPER COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

FLOOD WATERS HAVE RECEDED. FLOODING IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO POSE A
THREAT. PLEASE CONTINUE TO HEED ANY REMAINING ROAD CLOSURES.

LAT...LON 3868 9262 3869 9305 3870 9306 3897 9305
      3897 9256 3893 9250

$$

CUTTER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 26, 4:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Ray	26 min
Apr 26, 4:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Clay, Platte, Ray	25 min
Apr 26, 5:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Buchanan	25 min
Apr 26, 6:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Holt	30 min
Apr 26, 6:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Buchanan	28 min
Apr 26, 6:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan, DeKalb	26 min
Apr 26, 7:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan, Holt, Platte	49 min
Apr 26, 7:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Platte	33 min
Apr 26, 7:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Carroll	24 min
Apr 26, 7:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Clinton, Platte	35 min
Apr 26, 7:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan, Caldwell, Clay, Clinton, Daviess and 4 more	54 min
Apr 26, 8:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Jackson, Lafayette, Ray	34 min
Apr 26, 8:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Jackson	23 min
Apr 26, 8:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Carroll, Clay, Clinton, DeKalb, Jackson and 5 more	46 min
Apr 26, 9:00 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Clay, Clinton, Platte	4 hr
Apr 26, 9:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll, Cass, Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis and 2 more	51 min
Apr 26, 9:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Chariton, Grundy, Linn, Livingston, Sullivan	40 min
Apr 26, 10:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll, Chariton, Cooper, Howard, Johnson, Pettis and 1 more	39 min
Apr 26, 10:24 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Platte	9 days
Apr 26, 10:24 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Buchanan	7 days
Apr 26, 10:24 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Platte	8 days
Apr 26, 10:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Chariton, Cooper, Howard, Linn, Macon, Pettis and 2 more	50 min
Apr 26, 10:47 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Pettis	3 hr
Apr 26, 11:09 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Clay, Platte	6 hr
Apr 26, 12:02 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Clay, Platte	26 hr
Apr 26, 12:06 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Clay, Ray	29 hr
Apr 26, 3:50 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	EAX	Andrew, Atchison, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell, Cass and 14 more	14 hr
Apr 26, 6:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Holt	51 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2016 Every flash 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.