1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jul 24, 3:40 AM CST, 8 hours 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 440 AM CDT SAT JUL 24 2004 .DISCUSSION... LOOKS LIKE WIDESPREAD RAIN WILL FINALLY MOVE OVER MUCH OF THE FORECAST AREA TODAY. MODEST ISENTROPIC LIFT COMBINED WITH ENTRANCE REGION OF UPPER LEVEL JET MAX HAS AIDED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER NEARLY ALL OF EASTERN KANSAS. ETA/NGM/GFS ARE IN AGREEMENT WITH AREA SHIFTING EAST. BULLSEYE OF MODEL QPF MOVES FROM SOUTHERN KANSAS ACROSS SOUTHERN MISSOURI TODAY. MODELS SEEM TO BE KEYING ON ISENTROPIC LIFT...ALTHOUGH CURRENT PRECIP SEEMS TO INDICATE UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE MAY BE THE BIGGER FACTOR. IN ANY CASE...EXPECT ONGOING PRECIP TO CONTINUE TO SHIFT EAST THIS MORNING...AS LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVING ACROSS OKLAHOMA/KANSAS BORDER SHIFTS EAST. EXPECT ISENTROPIC LIFT TO TAKE OVER AND BE THE MAIN FORCING MECHANISM FOR MUCH OF THE DAY. THEREFORE HAVE HIGHEST QPF ACROSS CENTRAL MISSOURI. TAIL END OF UPPER LEVEL TROUGH WILL BE SLOW TO MOVE EAST...WITH IT PROGGED TO NOT BE EAST OF REGION UNTIL MONDAY. HOWEVER ISENTROPIC DOWNGLIDE DEVELOPS BY SUNDAY. HAVE THEREFORE TAPERED PRECIP CHANCES FROM NORTH TO SOUTH TONIGHT...WITH SUNDAY EXPECTED TO BE DRY. HAVE NO RISE IN TEMPERATURES TODAY AS PERIODS OF RAIN SHOULD CONTINUE THROUGH THE DAY. LOWERED HIGHS ON SUNDAY A COUPLE OF DEGREES AS MODEL THICKNESS FIELDS CONTINUE TO LOWER. BOTH GFS/ETA MODELS PROG THERMAL TROUGH TO NOT MOVE EAST OF REGION UNTIL MONDAY. NRR && .PREV DISCUSSION... 325 PM FRI... THE COLD FRONT THAT MOVED THROUGH KANSAS AND MISSOURI LAST NIGHT HAS STALLED IN THE VICINITY OF SPRINGFIELD AND TULSA THIS AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BLOSSOMED IN THE UNSTABLE AIR OVER OKLAHOMA AND ARKANSAS DURING THE LAST TWO HOURS. IN THE MEAN TIME A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS IN CENTRAL MISSOURI ASSOCIATED WITH CONVERGENCE IN THE 850-700MB LAYER HAS BEEN SLOW TO MOVE THIS AFTERNOON. THE DISTURBANCE TIED TO THESE SHOWERS HAS BEEN WEAKENING DURING THE COURSE OF THE DAY, SO THIS PRECIPITATION THIS EVENING WILL BE LIGHT AS IT CROSSES THE KANSAS MISSOURI BORDER. PRECIPITATION INTENSITY SHOULD INCREASE LATE TONIGHT AS A VORTICITY MAXIMA, NOW OVER WYOMING, ENTERS THE PLAINS. BOTH THE ETA AND GFS ADVERTISE ENHANCEMENT OF 850MB THETA-E ADVECTION INTO SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI TONIGHT IN RESPONSE TO THIS APPROACHING MID LEVEL FEATURE. I AM CONCERNED THAT DEEP CONVECTION IN THE HIGHER INSTABILITY NEAR SPRINGFIELD AND TULSA MAY ORGANIZE INTO AN MCS WITH ENOUGH ASCENT THAT THE 850MB FLOW MAY BE IMPEDED NORTH OF NEVADA. THE EVENING SHIFT WILL NEED TO MONITOR THE EVOLUTION OF CONVECTION THIS EVENING, AND POTENTIALLY DROP PRECIPITATION DOWN FROM 60 PERCENT IN THE KANSAS CITY AREA. TOMORROWS TEMPERATURES WILL BE CLOSELY TIED TO THE EVOLUTION OF CONVECTION TONIGHT. IF THE OMEGA AND PRECIPITATION FIELDS FROM THE ETA AND GFS VERIFY, TEMPERATURES OVER EASTERN KANSAS AND NORTHERN MISSOURI WILL STRUGGLE TO REACH 70. LIKE TODAY, PERSISTENT RAIN OVER CENTRAL KANSAS TODAY HAS KEPT TEMPERATURES IN THE 60S IN THE HUTCHISON AREA. IF AN ORGANIZED MCS DEVELOPS FURTHER SOUTH (IN SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA AND ARKANSAS) IN THE BEST INSTABILITY, A PRECIPITATION-FREE DAY OVER THE REGION WILL MEAN TEMPERATURES IN THE MID TO UPPER 70S. TEMPERATURES TONIGHT WILL BE ABOUT 10 DEGREES BELOW AVERAGE, BUT MCIS RECORD OF 59 DEGREES SHOULD REMAIN INTACT. THICK CLOUD COVER AND THE POTENTIAL FOR RAIN SHOULD KEEP READINGS ABOVE WHAT GUIDANCE SUGGESTS. SATURDAY NIGHTS RECORD LOW OF 56 DEGREES MAY BE WITHIN REACH, BUT ONCE AGAIN CLOUDS MAY HINDER RADIATIONAL COOLING DESPITE THE CHILLY AIRMASS BEING ADVECTED INTO THE REGION. KOCH IN THE EXTENDED PORTION OF THE FORECAST...UNSEASONABLY COOL CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST THROUGH THE START OF THE WEEK. HOWEVER...RETURN FLOW WILL BECOME ESTABLISHED EARLY IN THE WEEK...CAUSING TEMPERATURES TO MODERATE TO NEAR-NORMAL READINGS BY WEDNESDAY. MEDIUM RANGE MODEL SOLUTIONS FORECAST A CLOSED LOW TO MOVE ACROSS SOUTHERN CANADA DURING THE LAST HALF OF THE PERIOD...AND PUSH A COLD FRONT THROUGH THE NORTHERN PLAINS. HAVE ADDED SLIGHT CHANCE POPS ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. LS && .EAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KS...NONE MO...NONE WFO EAX
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 103 PM CDT SAT JUL 24 2004 KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-251100- THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST...NORTH CENTRAL AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...AS WELL AS EXTREME EASTERN KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH MAY LEAD TO RIVER FLOODING AND FLOODING OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS...WILL CONTINUE TO FALL THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER AREAS MAINLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF A KANSAS CITY TO MACON MISSOURI LINE. SOME LOCATIONS MAY SEE AN ADDITIONAL INCH OF RAINFALL. DUE TO HEAVIER RAIN THAT FELL EARLIER TODAY ALONG WITH THE ADDITIONAL RAINFALL THIS AFTERNOON...A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING IN AREAS FROM PAOLA KANSAS TO BOONVILLE MISSOURI...SOUTHWARD. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. && THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGIC AND CLIMATE INFORMATION...IS AVAILABLE ON THE WEB AT (LOWER CASE) HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/EAX OR HTTP://WEATHER.GOV. PC
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Indian Creek in Overland Park crested at 12.22 feet, or 0.22 feet above flood stage.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kansas in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, July 2004
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5414107.