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 Nov 11, 3:00 AM CST, 3 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 300 AM CST THU NOV 11 2004 MAIN FORECAST CONCERN IN THE SHORT TERM IS WITH ENDING OF PRECIPITATION TODAY AND TEMPERATURES THE NEXT FEW DAYS. CURRENT UPPER LOW SITUATED OVER NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA IS EXPECTED TO MOVE DUE EAST TODAY INTO MISSOURI BOOTHEEL BY 00Z. MODELS IN PRETTY CLOSE AGREEMENT ON THIS TRACK AND WITH THEIR SURFACE FEATURES. HAVE BEEN WATCHING DEFORMATION BAND OF PRECIPITATION DIMINISH ACROSS SOUTHERN IOWA AS NORTHERN STREAM SHORT WAVE MOVES PAST AND LIFT SHOWING UP AT 700 MB DISAPPEARS. THUS MAIN PRECIPITATION SHOW TODAY WILL BE WITH SOUTHERN STREAM LOW. MOISTURE WRAPPING AROUND IT SHOULD KEEP GOOD PORTION OF FORECAST AREA UNDER THE CLOUDS UNTIL THIS AFTERNOON. WITH WAVE MOVING EAST OF FORECAST AREA BY 18Z SHOULD SEE CURRENT WRAP AROUND PRECIPITATION IN SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF FORECAST AREA SLIDE OFF TO THE EAST. WILL LEAVE A MENTION OF PRECIP INTO SOUTHEAST CORNER OF FORECAST AREA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...OTHERWISE DRY THINGS OUT. TEMPERATURES REALLY TRICKY TODAY AS AREA WILL BE EXPERIENCES COLD ADVECTION AT THE SURFACE WITH GUSTY NORTH TO NORTHEAST WINDS. PUSH OF DRIER AIR EXPECTED DURING THE AFTERNOON BEHIND UPPER WAVE. NORTHERN PORTIONS OF FORECAST AREA MAY BREAK INTO SUNSHINE THIS MORNING...BUT IT MAY BE FAIRLY LATE IN THE DAY BEFORE SOUTHERN AREAS CAN SEE MUCH CLEARING. THUS NORTHERN AREAS VERY TRICKY AS COLD AIR GOING TO BE OFFSET SOME BY SUNSHINE...WHILE SOUTHERN AREAS SHOULD HOLD STEADY OR ACTUALLY FALL DURING THE DAY. TONIGHT EXPECT A HARD FREEZE...ALTHOUGH WINDS MAY NOT TOTALLY DIE OFF WITH CENTER OF SURFACE HIGH REMAINING UP IN MINNESOTA. ACTUALLY SATURDAY MORNING LOOKS LIKE A BETTER POTENTIAL FOR A RADIATIONAL EFFECTS WITH A WEAKER PRESSURE GRADIENT OVER REGION. ONLY FLY IN OINTMENT IS IF CIRRUS THAT GFS RH FIELDS ARE SUGGESTING MOVES IN. STILL ANOTHER HARD FREEZE LOOKS LIKELY. AFTER THAT...MODELS STILL SLOW WITH BRINGING IN NEXT CUTOFF SYSTEM. WILL HOLD OFF ON ANY MENTION OF RAIN UNTIL MONDAY NIGHT PERIOD AS BETTER RETURN FLOW SETS UP. PC && .PREV DISCUSSION... 1130 PM WED... THE UPPER LEVEL LOW HAS DRIFTED A LITTLE SOUTH OF EAST INTO NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA. BEST UPPER FORCING WITH THE SYSTEM HAS SHIFTED INTO THE SRN PORTION OF THE CWA. OTHERWISE...A BAND OF RAIN ASSOCIATED WITH A NARROW DEFORMATION ZONE WAS LOCATED ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA. MODELS SUGGEST THAT THE DEFORMATION ZONE WILL WEAKEN AS IT SHIFTS SOUTHEAST...THEREFORE WILL CUT POPS SOME ACROSS THE NRN ZONES. A COLD FRONT WAS PUSHING RAPIDLY THROUGH THE NORTHWESTERN CWA. THIS COVERED WELL BY THE CURRENT FCST...ALTHOUGH WILL BOOST OVERNIGHT LOWS A LITTLE DUE TO CURRENT TRENDS. DB 235 PM WED... EARLY AFTERNOON SATELLITE IMAGERY AND UPPER AIR ANALYSIS SHOW COMPACT UPPER LOW PROPAGATING OUT OF PANHANDLE REGION ALONG KS/OK BORDER. FURTHER NORTH NORTHERN STREAM SHORTWAVE DIGGING OUT OF MANITOBA INTO UPPER MS VALLEY REGION. AS OF 20Z SURFACE FRONT ASSOCIATED WITH NORTHERN STREAM WAVE EXTENDS FROM NORTHERN WI BACK INTO EASTERN NE...WHILE FURTHER SOUTH SURFACE REFLECTION OF UPPER LEVEL LOW EVIDENT OVER NORTHWEST OK. WELL DEFINED WARM CONVEYOR BELT AHEAD OF THIS FEATURE RESULTING IN BROAD AREA OF RAINFALL WITH A FEW EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING ACROSS NORTHEASTERN OK INTO EASTERN KANSAS. IT APPEARS LEADING EDGE OF THIS PRECIPITATION SHOULD BE INTO FAR WESTERN CWA AROUND 21Z...THEN CONTINUE TO SPREAD EASTWARD THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON AND INTO EVENING HOURS. MODELS ARE IN AGREEMENT PUSHING CENTER OF UPPER LOW SOUTHEASTWARD LATER TONIGHT INTO OZARKS REGION UNDER INFLUENCE OF UPPER MS VALLEY SHORTWAVE. AS A RESULT BEST DEEP LAYER LIFT/FORCING ASSOCIATED WITH UPPER LEVEL DIFFLUENCE/Q-VECTOR CONVERGENCE WILL REMAIN ACROSS SOUTHERN HALF CWA. HAVE KEPT LIKELY POPS ALONG IA BORDER TONIGHT WITH 100 POPS ALONG/SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70. QPF AMOUNTS IN THE ONE HALF TO ONE INCH RANGE LOOK POSSIBLE ACROSS FAR SOUTHERN CWA WITH LESSER AMOUNTS FURTHER NORTHWARD TOWARDS IA BORDER. SURFACE FRONT TO PUSH THROUGH CWA THIS EVENING ALLOWING MUCH COLDER AND DRIER AIRMASS TO SPREAD ACROSS AREA LATE TONIGHT INTO THURSDAY MORNING. TIGHTENING PRESSURE GRADIENT WILL ALSO RESULT IN WINDY CONDITIONS ACROSS AREA LATER TONIGHT...RESULTING IN WIND CHILL VALUES FALLING INTO THE 20S BY THURSDAY MORNING. DONT EXPECT DAYTIME TEMPS TO GO VERY FAR THURSDAY GIVEN STRONG COLD AIR ADVECTION. ADDITIONALLY...AS SURFACE HIGH BUILDS INTO MIDDLE MO VALLEY REGION WILL SEE FIRST HARD FREEZE OF THE YEAR THURSDAY NIGHT...WITH TEMPS ALONG IA/NE BORDER POSSIBLY APPROACHING THE UPPER TEENS. OTHERWISE UPPER LOW WILL DEVELOP OVER WESTERN CONUS DURING LATTER HALF OF THIS WEEK INTO THE UPCOMING WEEKEND. HAVE RETAINED CHANCE POPS FOR LATE SUNDAY INTO MONDAY AS BROAD WARM AIR ADVECTION REGIME SETS UP ACROSS AREA. EXPECT TEMPS THROUGH EXTENDED TO RUN NEAR TO SLIGHTLY ABOVE GUIDANCE. SEAMAN && .EAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KS...NONE. MO...NONE. WFO EAX
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 557 AM CST THU NOV 11 2004 KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-121200- THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST...NORTH CENTRAL AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...AS WELL AS EXTREME EASTERN KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NORTHEAST WINDS WILL GUST TO AROUND 30 MPH THIS MORNING. OTHERWISE...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY 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.
The South Grand River near Urich crested at 25.85 feet, or 1.85 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, November 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: 5427814.