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Flash Flood Watch 5, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 29, 202012 counties in Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood watch at Jun 29, 2020, 2:36 PM CDT for 12 counties in Missouri. It took effect at Jun 29, 2020, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 29, 2020, 2:36 PM CDT (19:36 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 29, 2020, 7:00 PM CDT
Expired
Jun 30, 2020, 2:57 AM CDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Flood severity
None

Counties Adair County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Howard County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Saline County, MO, Sullivan County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 307 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 2020-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1499 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 2020-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1499 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-120 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1072 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.