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Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 15, 2019, 9:11 PM CDT for Doniphan County, Kansas. 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 15, 2019, 9:11 PM CDT (02:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2019, 3:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Doniphan County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:11 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 (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 1479 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1268 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 570 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.0
- Supercell composite
- 19.6
The text
As transmitted.
001
WGUS53 KEAX 160211
FFWEAX
KSC043-160815-
/O.NEW.KEAX.FF.W.0049.190816T0211Z-190816T0815Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO
911 PM CDT Thu Aug 15 2019
The National Weather Service in Pleasant Hill has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Doniphan County in northeastern Kansas...
* Until 315 AM CDT Friday.
* At 910 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Two to four inches of rain has
fallen. Flash flooding is expected to begin shortly.
* Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Wathena, Highland, Troy, Denton, Doniphan, Severance, Leona,
Fanning and Bendena.
Additional rainfall amounts of one to three inches 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 3998 9534 3975 9493 3974 9494 3974 9496
3973 9497 3968 9498 3967 9502 3963 9505
3964 9512 3965 9512 3965 9515 3970 9534
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Doniphan | 44 min |
| Aug 15, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Doniphan, Leavenworth | 51 min |
| Aug 15, 8:38 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Atchison | 3 days |
| Aug 15, 9:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Doniphan | 45 min |
| Aug 15, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Doniphan | 34 min |
| Aug 15, 11:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Linn, Miami | 48 min |
| Aug 15, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn, Miami | 46 min |
| Aug 16, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Wyandotte | 45 min |
| Aug 16, 12:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn, Miami | 40 min |
| Aug 16, 1:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn | 35 min |
| Aug 16, 3:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn, Miami | 42 min |
| Aug 16, 3:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 44 min |
| Aug 16, 3:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Linn | 3 hr |
| Aug 16, 12:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | EAX | Atchison, Doniphan, Johnson, Leavenworth, Miami, Wyandotte | 23 hr |
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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.