Alert archive / Missouri / Areal Flood Warnings in 2020
Areal Flood Warning 13, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this areal flood warning at Jul 15, 2020, 8:38 AM CDT for Macon County, Randolph County, Missouri. 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 15, 2020, 8:38 AM CDT (13:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2020, 11:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Macon County, MO, Randolph County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 175 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:41 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
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 279 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
- 205 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 905 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -127 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood warning 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 areal flood warning went out at Jul 15, 6:37 AM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 6:37 AM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Service Notice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
<main class="wrap">
<section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
<div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
<h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
<p id="message1">
The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
</p>
<p id="message2">
Please try again in a few minutes.
</p>
<p class="small" id="detail">
If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
</p>
</section>
</main>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 15, 4:59 AM CDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO 459 AM CDT Wed Jul 15 2020 KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-161000- 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- 459 AM CDT Wed Jul 15 2020 This hazardous weather outlook is for northwest...north central and west central Missouri...as well as extreme eastern Kansas. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight Heavy rainfall associated with a complex of showers and thunderstorms is expected Wednesday morning. Primary impacts include heavy rain and flash flooding. Gusty winds are also likely. More detailed information can be accessed at... https://www.weather.gov/eax/hwo .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday Dangerous heat is expected Friday through the weekend. Highs anticipated around 95F with heat indicies near 105F More detailed information can be accessed at... https://www.weather.gov/eax/hwo
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 15, 3:50 AM CDT, 4 hours 48 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
350 AM CDT WED JUL 15 2020
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0339 AM FLASH FLOOD 1 W GUILFORD 40.17N 94.76W
07/15/2020 NODAWAY MO LAW ENFORCEMENT
REPORT OF SEVERAL INCHES OF WATER FLOWING
OVER HWY M WEST OF GUILFORD.
&&
PPThe office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 12:19 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Harrison | 26 min |
| Jul 15, 1:02 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Gentry | 28 min |
| Jul 15, 1:25 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Adair, Schuyler | 50 min |
| Jul 15, 1:36 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Andrew, Gentry, Harrison, Nodaway, Worth | 9 hr |
| Jul 15, 4:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Holt | 5 hr |
| Jul 15, 4:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Macon | 4 hr |
| Jul 15, 5:21 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Andrew, Buchanan | 9 hr |
| Jul 15, 6:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Clay, Clinton, Platte | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 6:50 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Clay, Ray | 11 hr |
| Jul 15, 6:50 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Clay, Platte | 5 hr |
| Jul 15, 8:22 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Buchanan | 25 hr |
| Jul 15, 10:22 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | EAX | Andrew, Gentry, Harrison, Nodaway, Worth | 3 hr |
Nearby
Areal Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2020Every areal flood warning in 2020
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.