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Flash Flood Warning 45, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 28, 2016, 10:04 PM CDT for Platte County, Missouri. It was in force for 2 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 28, 2016, 10:04 PM CDT (03:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 2016, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Platte County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:05 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
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 1611 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1337 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted.
912
WGUS53 KEAX 290304
FFWEAX
MOC165-290530-
/O.NEW.KEAX.FF.W.0045.160829T0304Z-160829T0530Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1004 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN PLATTE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...
* UNTIL 1230 AM CDT
* AT 1003 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO AN ESTIMATED THREE AND A
HALF INCHES OF RAIN HAVE ALREADY FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS
EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
KANSAS CITY...PARKVILLE...RIVERSIDE...WEATHERBY LAKE...
LAKE WAUKOMIS...PLATTE WOODS...HOUSTON LAKE AND WALDRON.
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE HALF TO ONE INCH OF RAIN
ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.
&&
LAT...LON 3930 9475 3923 9461 3915 9464 3915 9466
3917 9466 3919 9468 3917 9472 3918 9476
3921 9478 3921 9481
$$
JULYThe office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 7:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Grundy, Mercer | 31 min |
| Aug 28, 7:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Grundy | 3 hr |
| Aug 28, 8:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Cass, Jackson, Platte | 32 min |
| Aug 28, 8:15 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EAX | Clay, Jackson, Platte | 3 hr |
| Aug 28, 8:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Jackson, Platte | 36 min |
| Aug 29, 3:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | EAX | Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Holt, Nodaway | 24 hr |
| Aug 29, 5:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Harrison | 36 min |
| Aug 29, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Schuyler | 46 min |
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.