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Areal Flood Advisory 22, NWS Kansas City, MO

July 17, 2021Bates County, Cass County, Missouri; Miami County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this areal flood advisory at Jul 17, 2021, 12:52 PM CDT for Bates County, Cass County, Missouri; Miami County, Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 17, 2021, 12:52 PM CDT (17:52 UTC)
Expired
Jul 17, 2021, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Miami County, KS, Bates County, MO, Cass County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:55 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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 113 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2021-07-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 862 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2021-07-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 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
862 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
817 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
67 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 7:57 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXCarroll, Chariton, Linn, Livingston13 hr

Nearby

Areal Flood Advisories in Missouri, 2021Areal Flood Advisories in Kansas, 2021Every areal flood advisory in 2021

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.