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Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Kansas City, MO

August 26, 20164 counties in Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 26, 2016, 9:14 PM CDT for 4 counties in 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: Aug 26, 2016, 9:14 PM CDT (02:14 UTC)
Expired: Aug 27, 2016, 3:15 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Caldwell County, MO, Daviess County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Ray County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:18 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
Aug 26, 9:54 PM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	Chillicothe, MO	WATER OVER SEVERAL ROADS, 1.7 INCHES OF RAINFALL.

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, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 598 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 908 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 3.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

071 
WGUS53 KEAX 270214
FFWEAX
MOC025-061-117-177-270815-
/O.NEW.KEAX.FF.W.0041.160827T0214Z-160827T0815Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
914 PM CDT FRI AUG 26 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  LIVINGSTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI...
  DAVIESS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI...
  NORTHERN RAY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...
  CALDWELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI...

* UNTIL 315 AM CDT SATURDAY

* AT 913 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
  HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAVE
  ALREADY FALLEN AND ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN IS LIKELY THIS EVENING
  AND OVERNIGHT. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  CAMERON...CHILLICOTHE...LAWSON...HAMILTON...GALLATIN...BRAYMER...
  POLO...JAMESPORT...BRECKENRIDGE...KINGSTON...PATTONSBURG...UTICA...
  COWGILL...EXCELSIOR ESTATES...KIDDER...WINSTON...CHULA...
  ALTAMONT...HOMESTEAD AND LUDLOW.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.

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 4004 9377 3996 9376 3997 9349 3963 9346
      3961 9350 3961 9375 3952 9376 3936 9421
      4005 9421

$$

GITRO

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 26, 7:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Clay, Clinton, Daviess, DeKalb	28 min
Aug 26, 7:08 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan, Clay, Clinton, DeKalb, Platte	3 hr
Aug 26, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Clay, Clinton	32 min
Aug 26, 7:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Clinton, Ray	23 min
Aug 26, 7:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	EAX	Caldwell, Clinton	32 min
Aug 26, 7:52 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Buchanan, Clay, Clinton, Platte	6 hr
Aug 26, 8:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Caldwell, Daviess, Livingston	29 min
Aug 26, 8:29 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Clay, Ray	38 hr
Aug 26, 8:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Carroll, Daviess, DeKalb, Grundy, Livingston	42 min
Aug 26, 8:35 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Clay, Platte	32 hr
Aug 26, 8:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan, DeKalb, Gentry	5 hr
Aug 26, 8:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Ray	47 min
Aug 26, 9:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Jackson	3 hr
Aug 26, 9:28 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Jackson	27 hr
Aug 26, 9:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Emergency	EAX	Clay, Jackson	4 hr
Aug 26, 10:02 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Ray	58 hr
Aug 26, 10:02 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Platte	51 hr
Aug 26, 10:02 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Platte	53 hr
Aug 26, 10:22 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Jackson	25 hr
Aug 26, 10:31 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Carroll, Ray	4 hr
Aug 26, 10:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Putnam	45 min
Aug 26, 10:50 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Chariton, Cooper, Howard, Randolph	4 hr
Aug 26, 11:32 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll, Lafayette, Saline	58 hr
Aug 27, 12:13 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Andrew, Clay, Clinton, DeKalb, Jackson, Platte	6 hr
Aug 27, 3:15 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Carroll, Daviess, Livingston, Ray	3 hr
Aug 27, 9:58 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll, Chariton, Linn, Livingston	44 hr
Aug 27, 5:49 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Clay, Jackson, Ray	4 hr
Aug 27, 6:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Clinton	23 min

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.