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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 26, 2016Atchison County, Doniphan County, Leavenworth County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 26, 2016, 2:25 PM CDT for Atchison County, Doniphan County, Leavenworth County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 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: May 26, 2016, 2:25 PM CDT (19:25 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2016, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Atchison County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:29 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 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 82 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: 1730 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -118 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 756 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 247 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 285 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 10.9

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The text

As transmitted.

247 
WGUS53 KEAX 261925
FFWEAX
KSC005-043-103-262200-
/O.NEW.KEAX.FF.W.0008.160526T1925Z-160526T2200Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
225 PM CDT THU MAY 26 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 500 PM CDT

* AT 224 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
  HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO
  BEGIN SHORTLY.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  LEAVENWORTH...ATCHISON...WATHENA...HIGHLAND...TROY...HORTON...
  EFFINGHAM...LANCASTER...EASTON...MUSCOTAH...WHITE CLOUD...DENTON...
  DONIPHAN...SEVERANCE...FARMINGTON...HURON...LEONA...BENDENA...
  FANNING AND POTTER.

LAT...LON 3963 9555 3966 9551 3965 9532 3999 9533
      3992 9520 3990 9520 3990 9514 3987 9513
      3987 9496 3977 9496 3964 9505 3958 9505
      3958 9510 3954 9511 3934 9490 3933 9491
      3933 9518 3942 9516 3942 9555

$$

MITCHELL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 11:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Doniphan	45 min
May 25, 11:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Doniphan	48 min
May 26, 12:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Wyandotte	13 min
May 26, 2:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Atchison	45 min
May 26, 3:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Johnson, Wyandotte	46 min
May 26, 8:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Leavenworth	25 min
May 26, 9:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson	30 min
May 26, 10:07 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Doniphan	6 days
May 26, 10:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Leavenworth	35 min
May 26, 10:12 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Atchison, Leavenworth	61 hr
May 26, 10:12 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Leavenworth	3 days
May 26, 10:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison, Doniphan, Leavenworth	45 min
May 26, 10:24 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Miami	5 days
May 26, 10:24 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Linn	6 days
May 26, 10:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Wyandotte	38 min
May 26, 10:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison, Doniphan	48 min
May 26, 11:19 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Atchison, Leavenworth	3 hr
May 26, 11:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Doniphan	49 min
May 26, 12:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Doniphan	27 min
May 26, 12:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Wyandotte	49 min
May 26, 1:05 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	EAX	Atchison, Doniphan, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami and 1 more	38 hr
May 26, 1:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Wyandotte	49 min
May 26, 2:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison, Doniphan, Leavenworth	33 min
May 26, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Leavenworth, Wyandotte	31 min
May 26, 3:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Leavenworth, Wyandotte	28 min
May 26, 3:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Doniphan, Leavenworth, Wyandotte	6 hr
May 26, 4:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Leavenworth, Wyandotte	30 min
May 26, 4:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Atchison	46 min
May 26, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Leavenworth	28 min
May 26, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Leavenworth, Wyandotte	34 min
May 26, 4:59 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Atchison, Doniphan, Leavenworth	5 hr
May 26, 5:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte	6 hr
May 26, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte	38 min
May 26, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Wyandotte	32 min
May 26, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson	32 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.