Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1991
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 1, 1991, 2:13 AM CDT for Monroe County, Missouri. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 1991, 2:13 AM CDT (07:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 1991, 5:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Monroe County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 318 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 3228 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1011 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSTL 010718 FFWSTL MOC137-011015- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 213 AM CDT SAT JUN 1 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI ...EAST CENTRAL MONROE COUNTY THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN HAVE PERSISTED IN THE COUNTY FOR THE PAST COUPLE OF HOURS. AT 2 AM...CDT...RADAR INDICATED A VERY STRONG STORM ABOUT 45 MILES NORTHEAST OF COLUMBIA OR NEAR FLORIDA. THIS STORM AND ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO PERSIST IN EASTERN MONROE COUNTY UNTIL AT LEAST 4 AM. LOCAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS MAY EXCEED 3 INCHES WITH THESE STORMS. THERE ARE A NUMBER OF STREAMS...INCLUDING BRUSH CREEK THAT ARE IN THE VICINITY OF MARK TWAIN STATE PARK. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS...ESPECIALLY...SHOULD MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HAyRDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. TUCKER
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 31, 10:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before
MOZ003-007-ILZ011-010210- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1045PM CDT FRI MAY 31 1991 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 454 WHICH INCLUDED PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS HAS BEEN TERMINATED. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE FOR SEVERAL MORE HOURS. REH.
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 12:08 AM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
MOZ006-010-011-010600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 1200 AM CDT SAT J UN 1 1991 ...STRONG THUNDESTORMS WERE OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL MISSOURI... AT MIDNIGHT...SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER NORTHERN AND EASTERN PARTS OF CENTRAL MISSOURI. THE STRONGEST OF THESE STORMS WAS OVER VANDALIA AND LADDONIA...OR ABOUT 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF COLUMBIA. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 15 TO 20 MILES SOUTH OF KIRKSVILLE. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS COVERED AN AREA FROM 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KIRKSVILLE TO NEAR HANNIBAL. ALL OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINS THAT MAY CAUSE FLOODING... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS NEAR 35 MPH OVER PARTS OF NORTH AND EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI UNTIL ABOUT 3 OR 4AM THIS SATURDAY MORNING. LARM
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 1:26 AM CDT, 47 minutes before
MOZ007-011-012-010730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 125 AM CDT SAT JUN 1 1991 ...ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXTREMELY HEAVY RAINS WERE OVER EAST CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST MISSOURI... AT 110 AM CDT...THE LARGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED JUST WEST OF BOWLING GREEN AND ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTH OF BOWLING GREEN. BOWLING GREEN IS ABOUT 50 MILES NORTHWEST OF ST LOUIS. ANOTHER STORNG STORM WAS 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF QUINCY ILLINOIS...OR JUST NORTH OF VANDALIA MISSOURI. HEAVY DOWNPOURS WERE OCCURRING WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY MOVE SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. SOME FLOODING OF LOWING LYING AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS IS POSSIBLE. THE STORMS WILL BE MOVIHNG THROUGH OR NEAR THE TOWNS OF VANDALIA... BOWLING GREEN...ELSBERRY AND MOZIER ILLINOIS BY 2 AM. FERRY
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 1:51 AM CDT, 22 minutes before
MOZ006-009-010-011-010800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 145 AM CDT SAT J UN 1 1991 ...STRONG THUNDESTORMS WERE OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 145AM...SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER NORTHERN AND EASTERN PARTS OF CENTRAL MISSOURI. THE STRONGEST OF THESE STORMS WAS JUST NORTH OF MEXICO...OR ABOUT 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF COLUMBIA. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR MARCELINE...OR ABOUT 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KIRKSVILLE. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE SCATTERED OVER NORTHERN AND EASTERN PARTS OF CENTRAL MISSOURI. ALL OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTH AT 30 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINS THAT MAY CAUSE F^LOODING... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING OVER PARTS OF NORTH AND EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI UNTIL ABOUT 4AM THIS SATURDAY MORNING. LARM
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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.