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, 7:30 PM CST, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 830 PM CDT SAT JUL 24 2004 .DISCUSSION... 00Z UPPER AIR ANALYSIS AND WATER VAPOR IMAGERY INDICATE SHORTWAVE TROUGH AXIS CURRENTLY LOCATED OVER MID MS VALLEY...AND REGIONAL RADAR IMAGERY SHOWS ASSOCIATED PRECIPITATION HAS SHIFTED OUT OF FORECAST AREA. SUBSIDENCE BEHIND THIS FEATURE HAS ALLOWED LOW CLOUDS TO DISSIPATE ACROSS NORTHEAST KS AND NORTHWEST MO. DESPITE ABUNDANT RESIDUAL SURFACE MOISTURE FROM TODAYS RAINFALL...THINK SUFFICIENT MID LEVEL CLOUD COVER SHOULD KEEP DENSE FOG FROM DEVELOPING...HOWEVER MID SHIFT WILL NEED TO KEEP CLOSE EYE ON THIS. OTHERWISE GOING TEMPS FOR TONIGHT LOOK REASONABLE...AND SHOULD CHALLENGE RECORD LOW AT MCI (56) SUNDAY MORNING. SECONDARY SHORTWAVE TROUGH CURRENTLY DIGGING INTO CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS IS EXPECTED TO DEEPEN AS IT PROPAGATES ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS INTO THE LOWER MO VALLEY TONIGHT INTO THE DAY SUNDAY. 850MB BAROCLINIC ZONE HAS BEEN PUSHED SOUTH OF AREA...AND IS CURRENTLY LOCATED FROM SOUTHERN MO INTO CENTRAL OK. EXPECT ANY THETA-E ADVECTION WITHIN 925-850MB LAYER TO REMAIN SOUTH OF FORECAST AREA...ALTHOUGH CANT RULE OUT SHOWERS LATE TONIGHT ACROSS FAR SOUTHEAST. HAVE UPDATED FORECAST TO REMOVE POPS ACROSS ALL BUT FAR SOUTHEAST FOR THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. SEAMAN && .PREV DISCUSSION... 325 PM... WILL NOT BE CONTINUING THE FLOOD WATCH THAT WAS ISSUED THIS MORNING. RAIN CAME A BIT QUICKER AND HEAVIER THAN EARLIER THOUGHT...AND NOW IS CLEARING A BIT FASTER...MORE IN LINE WITH GFS MODEL. SO THINK THREAT OF HEAVY RAIN WILL BE ENDING BY 00Z. MCV AND WEAK WAVE ASSOCIATED WITH IT WILL BE MOVING EAST OF AREA BY 00Z. ANOTHER SHORT WAVE WILL BE DROPPING INTO WESTERN NEBRASKA BY 12Z SUNDAY. THIS WAVE WILL BE MOVING ACROSS MISSOURI MONDAY NIGHT. CURRENT WEAK WAVE PROBABLY WILL NOT HAVE ENOUGH SUBSIDENCE TO CLEAR EXTENSIVE CLOUD COVER TONIGHT AND DURING DAY ON SUNDAY...SO EXPECTING A FAIR AMOUNT OF CLOUDINESS TO REMAIN WITH SHORT WAVE APPROACHING SUNDAY AFTERNOON. THIS WILL KEEP TEMPERATURES DOWN WELL BELOW SEASONAL LEVELS. EVEN WITH APPROACH OF UPPER WAVE SUNDAY AFTERNOON...MAIN THETA E AXIS IS WELL SOUTH OF AREA. ONLY SOME WEAK LIFT SHOWING UP WITH THIS WAVE IN THE EVENING...SO WITH LACK OF GOOD MOISTURE WILL LEAVE FORECAST DRY. EXTENDED FORECAST HAS SOME REAL QUESTION MARKS. GFS LONG RANGE SHOWING CUT OFF WAVE MOVING ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL CANADA MID TO LATE WEEK WITH WEAKER SHORT WAVES ROTATING AROUND THIS LOW IN THE UPPER MIDWEST. UKMET SHOWING THIS WAVE NOT AS CUT OFF WITH EUROPEAN MODEL EVEN MORE PROGRESSIVE WITH IT. GFS HAS A WEAK FRONT TRYING TO APPROACH AREA BY 12Z THURSDAY...WITH ONLY WEAK LIFT. 12Z GFS DOES HAVE A CONVECTIVE FEEDBACK PROBLEM BY 12Z THURSDAY WITH A BIG BLOW UP IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. WILL LEAVE SILENT SLIGHT POPS IN FOR NOW...SINCE TIMING AND STRENGTH OF THESE SYSTEMS ARE SO IFFY. PC && .PREV DISCUSSION... 440 AM... 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 && .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
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
439 PM CDT SAT JUL 24 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0330 PM FLASH FLOOD LA TOUR 38.63N 94.10W
07/24/2004 JOHNSON MO EMERGENCY MNGR
INTERSECTION OF 2 HIGHWAY AND ZZ HIGHWAY UNDER 8 INCHES
OF FLOWING WATER. CAR STALLED IN HIGH WATER.
ADDITIONALLY, RURAL ROADS PARALLEL TO BIG CREEK ARE UNDER
WATER.
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SEAMANThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Big Creek at Blairstown crested at 24.89 feet, or 4.89 feet above flood stage. The South Grand River near Urich crested at 28.00 feet, or 4.00 feet above flood stage.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Missouri in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Missouri, 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: 5414116.