Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 2016
Flash Flood Warning 38, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 2, 2016, 5:38 AM CDT for Adair County, Macon County, Schuyler County, 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 2, 2016, 5:38 AM CDT (10:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2016, 11:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Adair County, MO, Macon County, MO, Schuyler County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 201 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:39 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
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 245 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
- 460 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 899 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted.
751
WGUS53 KEAX 021038
FFWEAX
MOC001-121-197-021645-
/O.NEW.KEAX.FF.W.0038.160802T1038Z-160802T1645Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
538 AM CDT TUE AUG 2 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SCHUYLER COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN MISSOURI...
EASTERN ADAIR COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN MISSOURI...
EASTERN MACON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI...
* UNTIL 1145 AM CDT TUESDAY
* AT 538 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAVE
ALREADY FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE
WARNED AREA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
&&
LAT...LON 3960 9230 3960 9235 3961 9240 4059 9268
4060 9235 3995 9235 3995 9229
$$
HAWBLITZEL1 follow-up statement
354
WGUS73 KEAX 021557
FFSEAX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1057 AM CDT TUE AUG 2 2016
MOC001-121-197-021607-
/O.CAN.KEAX.FF.W.0038.000000T0000Z-160802T1645Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
SCHUYLER MO-ADAIR MO-MACON MO-
1057 AM CDT TUE AUG 2 2016
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SCHUYLER...EASTERN ADAIR AND EASTERN
MACON COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED. FLOODING IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO POSE A
THREAT. PLEASE CONTINUE TO HEED ANY REMAINING ROAD CLOSURES.
LAT...LON 3960 9230 3960 9235 3961 9240 4059 9268
4060 9235 3995 9235 3995 9229
$$
PIETRYCHAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 11:47 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Daviess, Gentry | 31 hr |
| Aug 2, 4:20 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | EAX | Bates, Buchanan, Cass, Clay, Henry, Jackson and 2 more | 16 hr |
| Aug 2, 5:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Randolph | 6 hr |
| Aug 2, 5:13 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EAX | Adair, Schuyler | 4 hr |
| Aug 2, 3:28 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Carroll, Cooper, Daviess, Henry, Johnson and 5 more | 24 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2016Every 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.