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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS St. Louis, MO

May 15, 1990Warren County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 15, 1990, 4:45 AM CDT for Warren County, Missouri. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 15, 1990, 4:45 AM CDT (09:45 UTC)
Expired
May 15, 1990, 9:00 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Warren County, MO

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 287 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Paducah/Barkley, KY at 00:00Z on 1990-05-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Paducah/Barkley, KY at 00:00Z on 1990-05-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 90 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1914 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
183 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 15, 3:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXLincoln44 min
May 15, 4:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXWarren38 min
May 15, 4:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXLincoln, Saint Charles, Warren44 min
May 15, 4:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXSaint Louis, City of Saint Louis45 min
May 15, 4:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXFranklin45 min
May 15, 5:27 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXSaint Louis, City of Saint Louis48 min
May 15, 5:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXJefferson51 min
May 15, 6:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXJefferson53 min

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.