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Areal Flood Warning 21, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 5, 2026Andrew County, Buchanan County, Holt County, Missouri; Doniphan County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this areal flood warning at Jun 5, 2026, 5:24 AM CDT for Andrew County, Buchanan County, Holt County, Missouri; Doniphan County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 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: Jun 5, 2026, 5:24 AM CDT (10:24 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2026, 9:15 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Doniphan County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Holt County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:25 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 00:00Z, 10.4 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1066 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1354 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 185 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 4.0

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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 Jun 5, 3:46 AM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 3:46 AM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 5, 1:44 AM CDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant HIll MO
144 AM CDT Fri Jun 5 2026

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0726 PM     Tstm Wnd Dmg     2 S Darlington          40.17N 94.40W
06/04/2026                   Gentry             MO   Law Enforcement

            2 ft diameter tree broken. Report relayed by
            EM. Time estimated from radar.

0738 PM     Tstm Wnd Dmg     5 ESE Darlington        40.17N 94.31W
06/04/2026                   Gentry             MO   Emergency Mngr

            Several trees uprooted or snapped and a
            wooden power pole leaning. Time estimated by
            radar.

0740 PM     Tstm Wnd Dmg     4 NW Mcfall             40.15N 94.29W
06/04/2026                   Gentry             MO   Public

            Trees down and small sheds blown over.
            Report relayed by EM. Time estimated by
            radar.

&&

Local storm report, Jun 5, 1:54 AM CDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant HIll MO
154 AM CDT Fri Jun 5 2026

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0142 AM     Flash Flood      Albany                  40.24N 94.33W
06/05/2026                   Gentry             MO   Dept of Highways

            MO 85 closed due to flooding from a nearby
            creek.

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EAC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Gentry	34 min
Jun 4, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Gentry	25 min
Jun 4, 7:54 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Gentry	3 hr
Jun 4, 8:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Gentry, Harrison	23 min
Jun 4, 8:30 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Buchanan	5 days
Jun 4, 8:38 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Andrew, Nodaway	49 hr
Jun 4, 8:38 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan	65 hr
Jun 4, 8:41 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan	42 hr
Jun 4, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Gentry, Nodaway	33 min
Jun 4, 9:09 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Andrew, Nodaway	3 hr
Jun 4, 9:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Andrew, DeKalb, Gentry	24 min
Jun 4, 9:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	DeKalb, Gentry	25 min
Jun 4, 9:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Andrew, DeKalb, Gentry, Nodaway	9 hr
Jun 4, 9:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry, Harrison	36 min
Jun 4, 9:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Holt	19 min
Jun 5, 1:55 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Daviess, Gentry, Harrison	6 hr
Jun 5, 3:16 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan, Holt	2 hr
Jun 5, 6:28 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Andrew, DeKalb, Gentry, Nodaway	3 hr
Jun 5, 6:49 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Daviess, Gentry	50 hr
Jun 5, 6:51 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Daviess, Livingston	61 hr
Jun 5, 6:51 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll, Chariton, Linn, Livingston	4 days
Jun 5, 7:47 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Daviess, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison, Worth	23 hr
Jun 5, 9:49 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Jackson, Lafayette, Ray	72 hr
Jun 5, 9:49 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll, Lafayette, Saline	4 days
Jun 5, 9:49 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll, Chariton, Saline	11 days
Jun 5, 11:31 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan, Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry, Holt	19 hr
Jun 5, 1:13 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Platte	10 days
Jun 5, 1:13 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Platte	10 days
Jun 5, 1:36 PM CDT	Flood Watch	EAX	Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry and 8 more	17 hr
Jun 5, 12:55 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Atchison	28 hr
Jun 5, 2:50 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Atchison	6 hr

Nearby

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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.