Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 10, 1992, 6:02 AM CDT for Pike County, Missouri. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 1992, 6:02 AM CDT (11:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 1992, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pike County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 332 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
- 5006 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 800 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 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 101106 COR FFWSTL MOC163-127-173-101500- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 602 AM CDT MON AUG 10 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...PIKE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI ...EASTERN MARION COUNTY...RALLS COUNTY AT 540 AM THE HANNIBAL CIVIL DEFENSE REPORTED THAT SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS IN AND AROUND HANNIBAL VICINITY WERE FLOODING AND SOME STREET FLOODING WAS OCCURING. IN RALLS AND PIKE COUNTIES MISSOURI DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT RAINFALL AMOUNTS RANGE BETWEEN 3 AND 5 INCHES DURING THE NIGHT. THIS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING ON SMALL STREAMS IN THESE COUNTIES. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL AMOUNTS WERE NORTHWEST OF BOWLING GREEN TO NEAR THE CANNON DAM. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE THROUGH STANDING OR FLOWING WATER. PERSONS NEAR LOW LYING AREAS PRONE TO FLOODING SHOULD TAKE THE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS FOR SAFETY OF LIFE AND PROPERTY. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER 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. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
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, Aug 10, 1:12 AM CDT, 4 hours 50 minutes before
MOZ010-011-100700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 100 AM CDT MON AUG 10 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LINED UP IN EAST CENTRAL MISOURI... A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS IN EAST PARTS OF CNTRAL MISSOURI FROM 30 MILES WEST OF HANNIBAL...AROUND SHELBINA...TO 25 MILES EAST OF JEFFERSON CITY...AROUND HOPE...TO JUST EAST OF ROLLA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER HOPE AND FREEDOM...OR ABOUT 25 TO 30 MILES EAST OF JEFFERSON CITY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND OF 30 TO 40 MPH AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL AS THEY PASS THROUGH WELLSVILLE...MONTGOMERY CITY...HERMANN AND *OWENSVILLE BETWEEN 1 AND 2AM. LARM
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 2:01 AM CDT, 4 hours 1 minute before
MOZ010-011-100800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 200 AM CDT MON AUG 10 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI... AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS STILL 25 MILES EAST OF JEFFERSON CITY... OVER HOPE AND FREEDOM. THIS THUNDERSTORM HAD MOVED VERY LITTLE SINCE 1AM AND WAS LIKELY PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN IN THE COMMUNITIES OF HOPE...FREEDOM...CROOK AND COOPER HILL. STREET FLOODING MAY BE OCCURRING ALONG WITH SOME SMALL STREAM FLOODING. PEOPLE IN AND AROUND THESE TOWNS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RISING WATERS IF THEY LIVE IN A FLOOD PRONE AREA. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS PART OF A LINE OF LESSER...BUT STILL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS THAT WAS MOVING THROUGH EAST PARTS OF CENTRAL MISSOURI. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WIND AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINS ARE POSSIBLE FROM THESE OTHER THUNDERSTORMS. LARM
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 3:15 AM CDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before
MOZ010-011-100930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 315 AM CDT MON AUG 10 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE STILL IN EAST PARTS OF CENTRAL MISOURI FROM 45 MILES EAST OF COLUMBIA...AROUND BELLEFLOWER ...30 MILES NORTHEAST OF ROLLA...AROUND OWENSVILLE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL BE IN EASTERN MISSOURI BY 4AM. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS WERE NEWLY DEVELOPED AROUND COLUMBIA AND JEFFERSON CITY TO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JEFFERSON CITY...NEAR ELDON AND ALSO 25 MILES NORTH OF COLUMBIA...AROUND MOBERLY. LARM
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 3:17 AM CDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before
MOZ010-011-100930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 315 AM CDT MON AUG 10 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE STILL IN EAST PARTS OF CENTRAL MISOURI FROM 45 MILES EAST OF COLUMBIA...AROUND BELLFLOWER ...TO 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF ROLLA...AROUND OWENSVILLE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL BE IN EASTERN MISSOURI BY 4AM. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS WERE NEWLY DEVELOPED AROUND COLUMBIA AND JEFFERSON CITY TO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JEFFERSON CITY...NEAR ELDON AND ALSO 25 MILES NORTH OF COLUMBIA...AROUND MOBERLY. LARM
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 4:07 AM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
MOZ010-011-101000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 400 AM CDT MON AUG 10 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE STILL IN EAST PARTS OF CENTRAL MISSOURI FROM 35 MILES NORTHEAST OF COLUMBIA...AROUND VANDALIA...TO 20 MILES EAST OF ROLLA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO EASTERN MISSOURI BY 5AM. OTHER SHOWERS WERE SC.ATTERED IN CENTRAL MISSOURI JUST EAST OF JEFFERSON CITY. LARM
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 5:34 AM CDT, 28 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
530 AM CDT MON AUG 10 1992
AT 525 AM CDT...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...
STRONG WIND AND SMALL HAIL WERE OVER NORTHEAST MISSOURI AND EXTREME
WEST CENTRAL ILLIONOIS.
THESE STORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR BOWLING GREEN MISSOURI TO NEAR KEOKUK
IOWA. VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WIND AND SMALL HAIL MAY OCCUR WITH
THESE. THE RAIN IS MOVING VERY SLOWLY AND COULD CAUSE FLOODING OF
STREETS AND LOW AREAS.
OTHER LIGHT RAIN WAS OVER EASTERN MISSOURI.
THE AREA OF RAIN WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUH
FVThe office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 6:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Marion, Ralls | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 2:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Reynolds | 47 min |
| Aug 10, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Crawford | 49 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 1992Every flash flood warning in 1992
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.