Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Watches in 2019
Flash Flood Watch 5, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood watch at May 23, 2019, 3:30 PM CDT for 29 counties in Missouri; 7 counties in Kansas. It took effect at May 23, 2019, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 60 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 23, 2019, 3:30 PM CDT (20:30 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 23, 2019, 7:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- May 26, 2019, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 60 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Flood severity
- None
All 36 counties
Atchison County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Adair County, MO, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Bates County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Holt County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Platte County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Ray County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Sullivan County, MO, Worth County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:30 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1804 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood watch went out at May 23, 12:47 PM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 23, 12:47 PM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 23, 5:18 AM CDT, 10 hours 12 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO 518 AM CDT Thu May 23 2019 KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-241030- Atchison KS-Miami-Linn KS-Doniphan-Leavenworth-Wyandotte-Johnson KS- Atchison MO-Nodaway-Worth-Gentry-Harrison-Mercer-Putnam-Schuyler- Holt-Andrew-De Kalb-Daviess-Grundy-Sullivan-Adair-Buchanan-Clinton- Caldwell-Livingston-Linn MO-Macon-Platte-Clay-Ray-Carroll-Chariton- Randolph-Jackson-Lafayette-Saline-Howard-Cass-Johnson MO-Pettis- Cooper-Bates-Henry- 518 AM CDT Thu May 23 2019 This hazardous weather outlook is for northwest...north central and west central Missouri...as well as extreme eastern Kansas. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight Thunderstorms will move into the area from eastern Kansas late this evening. A few strong wind gusts and heavy rainfall are the greatest weather hazards at this time. More detailed information can be accessed at... https://www.weather.gov/eax/hwo .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday Active weather continues Friday into Saturday, with a continued potential for severe weather and flash flooding. More detailed information can be accessed at... https://www.weather.gov/eax/hwo
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 | 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 22, 10:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Chariton, Howard, Macon, Randolph | 4 hr |
| 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, 1:41 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 32 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in Missouri, 2019Flash Flood Watches in Kansas, 2019Every flash flood watch in 2019
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.