Alert archive / Missouri / Flood Watches in 2023
Flood Watch 3, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flood watch at Aug 4, 2023, 2:08 PM CDT for 11 counties in Missouri. It took effect at Aug 4, 2023, 5:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 13 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 4, 2023, 2:08 PM CDT (19:08 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 4, 2023, 5:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2023, 5:36 AM CDT
- In force
- 13 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Adair County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Howard County, MO, Linn County, MO, Macon County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Saline County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Sullivan County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:10 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 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 255 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
- 525 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -279 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 818 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this 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 flood watch went out at Aug 4, 12:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 12:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 4, 3:38 AM CDT, 10 hours 30 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO 338 AM CDT Fri Aug 4 2023 KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-050845- 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- 338 AM CDT Fri Aug 4 2023 This hazardous weather outlook is for northwest...north central and west central Missouri...as well as extreme eastern Kansas. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight morning thunderstorms may bring some flooding to portions of central Missouri. Additional thunderstorms move into eastern Kansas and western Missouri later this morning and afternoon. Warm conditions, with heat indices around 100 to 105 expected across west central Missouri and east central Kansas, into southern Kansas and Missouri. More detailed information can be accessed at... https://www.weather.gov/eax/hwo .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday Several additional rounds of thunderstorms possible through Sunday. There is a chance for storms on Saturday into Saturday night to be severe. In addition, if some areas receive several round of heavy rain, flooding may be possible. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 3:15 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EAX | Carroll, Cooper, Lafayette, Pettis, Ray, Saline | 6 hr |
| Aug 4, 4:16 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper, Saline | 6 hr |
| Aug 4, 4:46 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EAX | Daviess, DeKalb | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 5:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Daviess | 6 hr |
| Aug 4, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Ray | 36 min |
| Aug 4, 6:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Ray | 24 min |
| Aug 4, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Lafayette, Ray | 23 min |
| Aug 4, 6:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Carroll, Livingston | 17 min |
| Aug 4, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Lafayette, Saline | 32 min |
| Aug 4, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Lafayette, Saline | 34 min |
Nearby
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.