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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Kansas City, MO

July 12, 2016Buchanan County, Missouri; Atchison County, Doniphan County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 12, 2016, 5:19 AM CDT for Buchanan County, Missouri; Atchison County, Doniphan County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr. 2 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 12, 2016, 5:19 AM CDT (10:19 UTC)
Expired: Jul 12, 2016, 9:15 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Atchison County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Buchanan County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:19 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 12, 6:15 AM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	1 Ssw St Joseph, MO	3 INCHES RAIN FELL. WATER UP TO BUMPERS ON TRUCKS. 5300 STOCKYARDS EXPRESSWAY.
Jul 12, 6:15 AM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	4 Ne Rushville, MO	BANKERS CROSSING. 10400 45 HWY/KK. HALLS, MO, FLASH FLOODING ACROSS ROADS.

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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 93 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: 2533 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -124 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1388 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 333 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

084 
WGUS53 KEAX 121019
FFWEAX
KSC005-043-MOC021-121415-
/O.NEW.KEAX.FF.W.0028.160712T1019Z-160712T1415Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
519 AM CDT TUE JUL 12 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  DONIPHAN COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN KANSAS...
  ATCHISON COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN KANSAS...
  BUCHANAN COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN MISSOURI...

* UNTIL 915 AM CDT

* AT 518 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
  HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. CLOSE TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN
  HAS ALREADY FALLEN AND ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED THIS
  MORNING. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  ST. JOSEPH...ATCHISON...WATHENA...ELWOOD...HIGHLAND...TROY...
  COUNTRY CLUB...AGENCY...EFFINGHAM...RUSHVILLE...LANCASTER...
  WHITE CLOUD...MUSCOTAH...DENTON...LEWIS AND CLARK VILLAGE...
  DONIPHAN...EASTON...DE KALB...SEVERANCE AND FARMINGTON.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY.

&&

LAT...LON 3965 9557 3965 9534 4000 9534 3994 9521
      3990 9520 3991 9515 3987 9513 3986 9504
      3990 9502 3990 9495 3983 9491 3982 9469
      3977 9460 3972 9460 3953 9487 3953 9510
      3947 9504 3944 9499 3942 9503 3942 9557

$$

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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
Jul 12, 12:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Atchison, Nodaway, Worth	35 min
Jul 12, 1:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Atchison	27 min
Jul 12, 2:13 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Atchison, Nodaway	4 hr
Jul 12, 2:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll, Clay, Clinton, Platte and 1 more	51 min
Jul 12, 3:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll, Clay, Clinton, Jackson and 4 more	56 min
Jul 12, 3:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll, Cass, Clay, Cooper, Jackson, Johnson and 4 more	46 min
Jul 12, 4:30 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Holt, Nodaway	4 hr
Jul 12, 4:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass, Cooper, Henry, Jackson, Johnson and 3 more	53 min
Jul 12, 4:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan, Clay, Clinton, DeKalb, Platte	39 min
Jul 12, 5:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Jackson, Platte	35 min
Jul 12, 5:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Cass, Clay, Jackson	41 min
Jul 12, 5:43 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Buchanan, Clay, Clinton, Jackson, Lafayette, Platte and 1 more	4 hr
Jul 12, 6:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Bates, Henry, Johnson	46 min
Jul 12, 6:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass, Henry	31 min
Jul 12, 6:40 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Clay, Ray	31 hr
Jul 12, 8:25 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Ray	49 hr
Jul 12, 9:18 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan	9 hr
Jul 12, 9:47 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Clay, Clinton, DeKalb, Jackson, Lafayette and 1 more	9 hr
Jul 12, 4:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Atchison	34 min
Jul 12, 8:59 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Atchison, Leavenworth	41 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.