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Flood Watch 3, NWS Kansas City, MO

April 26, 202637 counties in Missouri; 7 counties in Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flood watch at Apr 26, 2026, 2:46 AM CDT for 37 counties in Missouri; 7 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Apr 26, 2026, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 22 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 26, 2026, 2:46 AM CDT (07:46 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 26, 2026, 7:00 PM CDT
Expired: Apr 27, 2026, 4:38 PM CDT
In force: 22 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Flood severity: None

All 44 counties

Atchison County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Adair County, MO, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Bates County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Henry County, MO, Holt County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Sullivan County, MO, Worth County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:47 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 154 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: 827 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -71 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1421 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 186 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.6

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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 Apr 25, 11:42 PM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 25, 11:42 PM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 25, 9:13 PM CDT, 5 hours 33 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 26, 10:19 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Linn, Livingston	3 days
Apr 26, 10:20 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll, Chariton, Linn, Livingston	3 days
Apr 26, 10:20 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll, Chariton	5 days
Apr 26, 10:25 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Ray	53 hr
Apr 26, 10:26 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll	10 hr
Apr 26, 10:26 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Atchison, Holt	10 hr
Apr 26, 10:28 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Buchanan	10 hr
Apr 26, 10:30 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Clay, Ray	10 hr
Apr 26, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass, Jackson	50 min
Apr 26, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates	35 min
Apr 26, 4:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Cass, Jackson	12 min
Apr 26, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass, Henry, Jackson, Johnson	51 min
Apr 26, 5:45 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Bates, Cass, Jackson	3 hr
Apr 26, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Henry, Johnson	39 min
Apr 26, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Henry, Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis, Saline	47 min
Apr 26, 6:56 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Henry, Johnson	3 hr
Apr 26, 10:24 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Atchison, Leavenworth	10 hr
Apr 26, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Johnson, Miami	57 min
Apr 26, 4:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Johnson, Miami	25 min
Apr 26, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Linn, Miami	46 min
Apr 26, 4:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Linn	24 min
Apr 26, 5:05 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Johnson, Linn, Miami	3 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.