Flood in Missouri, April 30, 2006

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
355 AM CDT SUN APR 30 2006

.DISCUSSION...

VERTICALLY STACKED LOW PRESSURE QUITE EVIDENT ON BOTH IR SATELLITE
IMAGERY AND WSR-88D EARLY THIS MORNING MOVING INTO NRN
MISSOURI...NOW PASSING CHILLICOTHE. POTENT MID LEVEL SHORTWAVE IS
ROTATING ACROSS THE ERN FLANK OF THE SYSTEM WITH IMPRESSIVE DRY SLOT
PUNCHING IN FROM SW MISSOURI INTO CNTRL IOWA. ATTENDANT DEFORMATION
ZONE WEST OF THE MID LEVEL WAVE OVER THE MISSOURI RIVER FROM THE
KANSAS CITY AREA UP THROUGH ST JOSEPH HAS BEEN PERSISTENT ALL
NIGHT...BUT IS BEGINNING TO SHRINK IN SIZE AND INTENSITY AS DRY AIR
FEEDS IN FROM THE SW...AND THE PIVOT POINT SLIDES UP INTO IOWA.

HAVE MAINTAINED HIGHEST POPS ACROSS NRN CWA CLOSEST TO THE MID LEVEL
COLD POOL AND SURFACE CONVERGENCE ASSOCIATED WITH THE SFC LOW
PRESSURE. LOW STRATUS DECK SHOULD HOLD IN MOST OF THE AREA EARLY
THIS MORNING...HOWEVER AS THE COLD POOL MOVES INTO CNTRL
IOWA...SOMEWHAT DRIER BOUNDARY LAYER AIR WILL ADVECT INTO THE AREA
FROM THE SW. THIS MAY ALLOW FOR SOME BREAKS IN THE CLOUDS IN THE
EARLY AFTERNOON...BUT THE PROXIMITY TO THE COLD CORE SYSTEM AND
SEASONABLY COOL MID LEVEL TEMPERATURES...RESIDUAL LOW LEVEL
MOISTURE...AND DIFFERENTIAL VORTICITY ADVECTION ROTATING ABOUT THE
VERTICALLY STACKED SYSTEM WILL PROMOTE INCREASING SHOWER AND
THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. MEAGER INSTABILITY (CAPES ON THE ORDER OF
500-1000 J/KG) AND VERY WEAK SHEAR (0-6 KM SHEAR 10-20 KT) WILL
LIKELY PRECLUDE ANY SEVERE THREAT...HOWEVER ATMOSPHERIC COLUMN
PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES OF NEAR 1.0 INCH AND SLOW STORM MOTION
MAY CAUSE ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS...AND EXACERBATE
FLOODING CONCERNS FOR AREAS THAT HAVE RECEIVED OVER 4 INCHES OF RAIN
IN THE PAST 2 DAYS.

UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM MEANDERS TO THE NORTH ON MONDAY...AND CLEARING
MAY BE SLOW TO OCCUR...ESPECIALLY ACROSS NERN PORTIONS OF THE CWA.
MODELS INDICATE THE POSSIBILITY OF SHORTWAVE ENERGY MOVING NEAR THE
AREA IN NWLY FLOW BY MONDAY NIGHT...HOWEVER CONFIDENCE IN ANY
SPECIFIC FEATURE DOES NOT YET WARRANT A MENTION IN THE FORECAST.

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.PREV DISCUSSION...

246 PM SAT...
SURFACE ANALYSIS AND SATELLITE IMAGERY INDICATE THE PRESENCE OF A
TRIPLE POINT JUST SOUTH OF TULSA AT 19Z. MODIFIED GULF AIRMASS WAS
CONFINED TO AREAS EAST OF A PAIR OF SURFACE TROUGHS EXTENDING SOUTH
FROM THE LOW...AND SOUTH OF THE OUCHITA/BOSTON MOUNTAINS IN
ARKANSAS. ELEVATED CONVECTION WAS BEGINNING TO DEVELOP OVER SRN
MO/NRN AR WHERE SRLY LOW LEVEL FLOW WAS BEING AIDED BY LARGE SCALE
ASCENT AND LOCAL OROGRAPHIC EFFECTS.

MEANWHILE...A FAIRLY HOMOGENEOUS COOL/MOIST AIRMASS REMAINED IN
PLACE OVER MUCH OF ERN KANSAS AND CENTRAL/NRN MISSOURI. ALTHOUGH
SOME BREAKS IN THE OVERCAST WERE BEING OBSERVED ACROSS CENTRAL
MISSOURI...VERY WEAK FLOW IN THE VICINITY OF THE APPROACHING
INVERTED TROUGH WAS LIMITING MIXING. BOUNDARIES TO THE SOUTH WERE
ALSO IMPEDING ANY NORTHWARD ADVECTION OF BETTER LOW LEVEL MOISTURE.
AS A RESULT...THERMODYNAMIC PROFILES DO NOT SUPPORT ANY SURFACE
BASED OR ELEVATED CAPE THROUGH TONIGHT. HAVE ALREADY REMOVED ANY
MENTION OF SEVERE WEATHER...BUT WILL RETAIN ISOLATED THUNDER OVER
SRN THIRD OF THE CWA AS MID LEVEL COOLING ASSOCIATED WITH
APPROACHING TROUGH MAY STEEPEN LAPSE RATES SUFFICIENTLY FOR A FEW
EMBEDDED ELEVATED THUNDERSTORMS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS MAY APPROACH A
HALF INCH... ESPECIALLY SOUTH OF THE MISSOURI RIVER WHERE AT
MINIMUM...STRATIFORM RAINFALL SHOULD BE WIDESPREAD TO THE IMMEDIATE
NORTH OF ANY SUSTAINED CONVECTION.

OTHERWISE...ADVERTISED MERGING OF TWO POTENT TROUGHS FROM THE
SUBTROPICAL AND POLAR STREAMS WILL OCCUR LATER THIS EVENING OVER
CENTRAL NEBRASKA. EJECTING JET STREAK WILL ALLOW THIS SYSTEM TO
CLOSE OFF WITH ONLY A SLOW E-NE JOG EXPECTED ACROSS IOWA TOMORROW.
VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGERY DEPICTS THE BREADTH OF THE NRN WAVES COLD
CORE...WITH WIDESPREAD CUMULUS AND EMBEDDED CONVECTION WERE PRESENT
OVER THE HIGH PLAINS. THIS MID LEVEL COLD POOL WILL BECOME
BETTER CO-LOCATED WITH RESIDUAL LOW LEVEL MOISTURE OVER ERN KS AND
NRN MO TOMORROW...HELPING TO SUPPORT SCATTERED/NUMEROUS CONVECTION
DURING THE AFTERNOON. THIS ACTIVITY WILL LIKELY BE FOCUSED IN
SEVERAL BANDS WHERE VORTICITY SPOKES ARE BEING ROTATED AROUND THE
MAIN UPPER CORE. AGAIN...LIMITED INSTABILITY AND WEAK VERTICAL SHEAR
WILL KEEP THIS ACTIVITY PULSY AND FAIRLY BENIGN IN NATURE.

WITH CYCLONIC FLOW CONTINUING INTO THE DAY MONDAY...THERES STILL A
LIMITED THREAT FOR DIURNALLY DRIVEN SHOWERS...MAINLY OVER FAR
EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE CWA.

BOOKBINDER

STILL QUITE A BIT OF UNCERTAINTY WITH THE TIMING ON THE NEXT
SYSTEM.  THIS FORECAST IS A COMBO BETWEEN THE GFS AND ECMWF.
NORTHERN STREAM SHORTWAVE ENTERS THE PICTURE MID WEEK. ATTENDANT
SURFACE FRONT COMES THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT OR THURSDAY.  THE ECMWF
HANGS THIS FRONT UP ACROSS THE AREA WHILE THE GFS MOVES IT ON
THROUGH. FOR CONTINUITY...WE RETAINED LOW CHANCE POPS FOR WED NIGHT
AND THURS. WENT WITH A DRY FORECAST FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY...AS
SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE IS BUILDING IN.  TEMPERATURES ARE GENERALLY IN
THE LOWER 70S FOR HIGHS AND LOWER 50S FOR LOWS...JUST A BIT ABOVE
NORMAL.

LVK

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.EAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
MO...NONE
KS...NONE

WFO EAX

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
558 AM CDT SUN APR 30 2006

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-011100-
ATCHISON KS-MIAMI-LINN KS-DONIPHAN-LEAVENWORTH-WYANDOTTE-
JOHNSON KS-ATCHISON MO-NODAWAY-WORTH-GENTRY-HARRISON-MERCER-
PUTNAM-SCHUYLER-HOLT-ANDREW-DE KALB-DAVIESS-GRUNDY-SULLIVAN-ADAIR-
BUCHANAN-CLINTON-CALDWELL-LIVINGSTON-LINN MO-MACON-PLATTE-CLAY-
RAY-CARROLL-CHARITON-RANDOLPH-JACKSON-LAFAYETTE-SALINE-HOWARD-
CASS-JOHNSON MO-PETTIS-COOPER-BATES-HENRY-
558 AM CDT SUN APR 30 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST...NORTH CENTRAL
AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...AS WELL AS EXTREME EASTERN KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS EASTERN
KANSAS AND WESTERN AND CENTRAL MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON. DUE TO
LIMITED INSTABILITY AND WEAK UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT...SEVERE WEATHER IS
NOT ANTICIPATED.

THE GREATEST THREAT FROM THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP TODAY WILL BE
LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. GIVEN THE ANTECEDENT WET GROUND CONDITIONS
ACROSS THE AREA...ANY STORMS THAT PRODUCE UP TO AN INCH OF RAIN IN A
SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME OVER AN AREA...MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING
...OR WORSEN ONGOING RIVER FLOODING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REGION ON WEDNESDAY AS A
FRONTAL BOUNDARY MOVES IN FROM THE NORTHWEST. AT THIS TIME...IT IS
UNCERTAIN WHETHER SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH ANY OF THESE
STORMS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TUESDAY...HOWEVER
SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AND
LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT IN THE EVENT OF FLOODING IN THEIR AREA.

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