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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 22, 20194 counties in Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 22, 2019, 10:43 PM CDT for 4 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 4 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 22, 2019, 10:43 PM CDT (03:43 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2019, 2:45 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Chariton County, MO, Howard County, MO, Macon County, MO, Randolph County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:45 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, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 241 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1882 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 244 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

446 
WGUS53 KEAX 230343
FFWEAX
MOC041-089-121-175-230745-
/O.NEW.KEAX.FF.W.0013.190523T0343Z-190523T0745Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO
1043 PM CDT Wed May 22 2019

The National Weather Service in Pleasant Hill has issued a

* Flash Flood Warning for...
  Central Chariton County in north central Missouri...
  Randolph County in north central Missouri...
  Northern Howard County in central Missouri...
  Southeastern Macon County in north central Missouri...

* Until 245 AM CDT.

* At 1042 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
  heavy rain across the warned area. Up to two inches of rain have 
  already fallen. Flash flooding is expected to begin shortly or is 
  already occurring.

* Some locations that will experience flooding include...
  Moberly, Salisbury, Huntsville, Glasgow, Brunswick, Higbee,
  Keytesville, Clark, Cairo, Armstrong, Renick, Jacksonville, Clifton
  Hill, Dalton, Excello and Prairie Hill.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the
dangers of flooding.

&&

LAT...LON 3925 9232 3925 9243 3921 9245 3912 9288
      3915 9291 3923 9285 3923 9293 3926 9292
      3928 9296 3931 9296 3932 9306 3941 9312
      3944 9322 3947 9322 3944 9325 3946 9325
      3946 9328 3973 9230

$$

PP

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 22, 7:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Chariton, Saline	44 min
May 22, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Lafayette, Saline	38 min
May 22, 7:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Chariton, Saline	34 min
May 22, 7:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Cass	28 min
May 22, 7:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates, Henry	42 min
May 22, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Henry	49 min
May 22, 7:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Chariton, Saline	26 min
May 22, 7:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Chariton, Randolph	37 min
May 22, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson	47 min
May 22, 7:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Henry	30 min
May 22, 7:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Bates, Henry	30 min
May 22, 7:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Chariton, Howard, Saline	37 min
May 22, 7:59 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Howard	42 hr
May 22, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Pettis, Saline	41 min
May 22, 8:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	EAX	Randolph	23 min
May 22, 8:08 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass, Henry, Johnson, Pettis	6 hr
May 22, 8:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Chariton, Howard, Randolph	45 min
May 22, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates, Henry	24 min
May 22, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cooper, Howard, Pettis, Saline	50 min
May 22, 8:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Schuyler	39 min
May 22, 9:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Cooper, Howard	27 min
May 22, 9:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Chariton, Macon, Randolph	27 min
May 22, 9:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Pettis	35 min
May 23, 2:13 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Bates, Chariton, Cooper, Henry, Howard, Johnson and 3 more	33 hr
May 23, 7:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Bates	46 min
May 23, 10:09 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Atchison, Holt	8 days
May 23, 3:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	EAX	Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell and 23 more	64 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.