Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2016
Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 3, 2016, 12:03 AM CDT for Leavenworth County, Kansas; Platte County, Missouri. It was in force for 6 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 2016, 12:03 AM CDT (05:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2016, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Leavenworth County, KS, Platte County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:02 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 1:33 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 5 E Lansing, MO | 45 HIGHWAY AT DRY LAKE ROAD CLOSED DUE TO WATER OVER THE ROAD. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 72 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
- 147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 737 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 280 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted.
481
WGUS53 KEAX 030503
FFWEAX
KSC103-MOC165-031100-
/O.NEW.KEAX.FF.W.0021.160703T0503Z-160703T1100Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1203 AM CDT SUN JUL 3 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN LEAVENWORTH COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN KANSAS...
SOUTHEASTERN PLATTE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...
* UNTIL 600 AM CDT
* AT 1202 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR AND AUTOMATED RAIN GAUGES INDICATED
THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO
THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAVE ALREADY FALLEN IN THE LAST 2 HOURS.
FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
KANSAS CITY...LEAVENWORTH...LANSING...PLATTE CITY...
WEATHERBY LAKE...WESTON...LAKE WAUKOMIS...FERRELVIEW...
PLATTE WOODS...EASTON...TRACY...FARLEY...EAST LEAVENWORTH...
STILLINGS...FORT LEAVENWORTH...HOOVER...KANSAS CITY INTL ARPT...
LOWEMONT AND BEVERLY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND
UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.
&&
LAT...LON 3942 9518 3942 9498 3943 9498 3944 9460
3923 9460 3924 9518
$$
CDB1 follow-up statement
670
WGUS73 KEAX 031043
FFSEAX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
543 AM CDT SUN JUL 3 2016
KSC103-MOC165-031052-
/O.CAN.KEAX.FF.W.0021.000000T0000Z-160703T1100Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
LEAVENWORTH KS-PLATTE MO-
543 AM CDT SUN JUL 3 2016
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR NORTHERN LEAVENWORTH AND SOUTHEASTERN
PLATTE COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN REPLACED WITH A FLOOD WARNING.
LAT...LON 3942 9518 3942 9498 3943 9498 3944 9460
3923 9460 3924 9518
$$
CDBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 10:13 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Miami | 4 days |
| Jul 2, 10:13 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Linn | 24 hr |
| Jul 2, 10:13 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Linn | 24 hr |
| Jul 2, 11:32 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EAX | Leavenworth | 4 hr |
| Jul 3, 2:17 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 3 days |
| Jul 3, 5:42 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 12 hr |
| Jul 2, 8:20 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Cass, Henry, Johnson | 60 hr |
| Jul 2, 8:34 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Johnson, Pettis | 59 hr |
| Jul 2, 9:28 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard | 4 days |
| Jul 2, 9:35 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EAX | Jackson, Lafayette | 4 hr |
| Jul 2, 9:44 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Howard | 34 hr |
| Jul 2, 9:53 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper | 3 days |
| Jul 2, 10:05 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Carroll | 48 hr |
| Jul 3, 12:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Lafayette, Pettis, Saline | 6 hr |
| Jul 3, 12:48 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Clay, Ray | 38 hr |
| Jul 3, 1:18 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard | 6 hr |
| Jul 3, 1:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson, Lafayette, Ray | 6 hr |
| Jul 3, 2:08 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper, Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis | 6 hr |
| Jul 3, 2:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Jackson | 6 hr |
| Jul 3, 2:58 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Clay, Platte | 30 hr |
| Jul 3, 3:11 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Jackson | 35 hr |
| Jul 3, 5:58 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | EAX | Carroll, Chariton, Cooper, Howard, Johnson, Lafayette and 3 more | 12 hr |
| Jul 3, 9:30 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper | 47 hr |
| Jul 3, 3:36 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Cass, Henry, Johnson | 36 hr |
| Jul 3, 5:41 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard, Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis, Saline | 6 hr |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.