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Flash Flood Warning 27, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 6, 2016, 8:11 AM CDT for Andrew County, Buchanan County, Missouri; Doniphan County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr. 4 reports 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 6, 2016, 8:11 AM CDT (13:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2016, 11:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Doniphan County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Buchanan County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:11 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 6, 8:16 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 2 Ene St Joseph, MO | ROAD IMPASSABLE DUE TO FLOODING. |
| Jul 6, 8:16 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 3 E St Joseph, MO | HIGH WATER ON BELT HIGHWAY FROM FREDERICK TO MITCHELL. |
| Jul 6, 9:34 AM CDT | HEAVY RAIN 2.98 | St. Joseph Airport, MO | ASOS 2 HOUR RAINFALL TOTAL |
| Jul 6, 9:34 AM CDT | HEAVY RAIN 3.3 | 4 Sse St. Joseph, MO |
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 12:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2157 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
966
WGUS53 KEAX 061311
FFWEAX
KSC043-MOC003-021-061615-
/O.NEW.KEAX.FF.W.0027.160706T1311Z-160706T1615Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
811 AM CDT WED JUL 6 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN DONIPHAN COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN KANSAS...
SOUTHEASTERN ANDREW COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN MISSOURI...
NORTHERN BUCHANAN COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN MISSOURI...
* UNTIL 1115 AM CDT
* AT 810 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAVE
ALREADY FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
ST. JOSEPH...WATHENA...ELWOOD...COUNTRY CLUB VILLA...
COUNTRY CLUB...AGENCY...AMAZONIA...DONIPHAN...EASTON...
COSBY AND ST. JOSEPH AIRPORT.
LAT...LON 3975 9509 3989 9493 3986 9460 3965 9460
3962 9510
$$
BLAIRThe office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 9:57 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Livingston | 33 min |
| Jul 6, 10:32 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Linn, Macon | 43 min |
| Jul 6, 6:26 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Atchison | 34 min |
| Jul 6, 7:02 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EAX | Atchison, Doniphan | 3 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.