Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this flash flood warning at Sep 9, 1992, 7:07 AM CDT for Monroe County, Shelby County, Missouri. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 9, 1992, 7:07 AM CDT (12:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 9, 1992, 10:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Monroe County, MO, Shelby County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 0.1 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
- 2283 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -238 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 769 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 457 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 734 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSTL 091209 FFWSTL MOC137-205-091515- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 707 AM CDT WED SEP 9 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI ...MONROE COUNTY...SOUTHERN SHELBY COUNTY AT 700 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED NUMEROUS STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL EXTENDING FROM NEAR HANNIBAL TO ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTH OF KIRKSVILLE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AROUND 40 MPH. RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS SOUTHERN SHELBY COUNTY INTO NORTHERN MONROE COUNTY. RADAR INDICATES THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THIS AREA OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS RESULTING IN VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND POTENTIAL FLOODING PROBLEMS. PEOPLE IN THE TOWNS OF MAUD...SHELBINA...AND GRANVILLE...ALONG WITH NORTHWESTERN SECTIONS OF THE CLARENCE CANNON DAM AND MARK TWAIN LAKE RECREATIONAL AREA SHOULD BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.J DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. FG
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, Sep 9, 3:08 AM CDT, 3 hours 59 minutes before
MOZ015>021-080815- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 300 AM CDT WED SEP 9 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 826 IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL MISSOURI UNTIL 7 AM CDT THIS WEDNESDAY MORNING... AT 300 AM CDT THUNDERSTORMS WERE CONCENTRATED IN THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF MISSOURI. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE APPROCHING MISSOURI FROM NORTHEAST KANSAS. BETWEEN 2 AM AND 3 AM VERY LARGE HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH SOME OF THESE STORMS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO RACE EAST NORTHEAST INTO NORTHEAST MISSOURI. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE. RESIDENTS IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA SHOULD KEEP ABREAST OF LOCAL WEATHER CONDITIONS. LISTEN FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THESE STORMS FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. CONDITIONS WILL BECOME RIPE THROUGHOUT THE DAY FOR A SIGNIFICANT SEVERE WEATHER EVENT IN MISSOURI. BE VERY CAREFUL AND PAY VERY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE &WEATHER IN YOUR AREA. PEDIGO
Special weather statement, Sep 9, 4:02 AM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before
MOZ006-009-010-011-013-014-091000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 400 AM CDT WED SEP 9 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR NORTH AND WEST SECTIONS OF CENTRAL MISSOURI UNTIL 700 AM... AT 400 AM VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI FROM 30 MILES WEST OF COLUMBIA NEAR GLASGOW TO ABOUT 55 MILES NORTHWEST OF COLUMBIA NEAR BOSWORTH TO 25 MILES WEST OF KIRKSVILLE AROUND BROWNING. THW STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM IN THIS AREA WAS OVER BOSWORTH. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL PASS THROUGH CHARITON COUNTY BETWEEN 400 AM AND 420 AM...AND WILL CONTAIN HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. ALL OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 TO 45 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE IN OR CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA REMAIN CALM...BUT ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. IF THUNDERSTORMS THREATEN YOUR AREA STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. LA GREE
Special weather statement, Sep 9, 5:08 AM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
MOZ003-007-091115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 507 AM CDT WED SEP 9 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING ACROSS NORTHEAST MISSOURI... AT 500 AM...RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 35 MILES NORTHWEST OF QUINCY ILLINOIS IN CLARK COUNTY MISSOURI TO 65 MILES SOUTHWEST OF QUINCY NEAR MOBERLY MISSOURI. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING RAPIDLY EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGEST STORM WERE LOCATED IN CLARK COUNTY JUST EAST OF KAHOKA AND IN WESTERN LEWIS COUNTY MISSOURI SOUTHWEST OF MONTICELLO. WINDS NEAR 45 MPH...HAIL AND BRIEF DOWNPOURS WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS AS THE MOVE ACROSS NORTHEAST MISSOURI AND INTO WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. THIS LINE OF STORM WILL BE MOVING INTO THE HANNIBLA/QUINCY AREA BY 530 AM CDT. FERRY
Special weather statement, Sep 9, 5:29 AM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
MOZALL-091200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 530 AM CDT WED SEP 9 1992 ...ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR NORTHEAST AND PART OF CENTRAL MISSOURI... THIS WATCH IS VALID UNTIL 11 AM . SOME OF THE CITIES INCLUDED IN THIS WATCH ARE COLUMBIA...HANNIBAL...JEFFERSON CITY... KIRKSVILLE AND BOWLING GREEN. AT 520 AM RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST AND CENTRAL MISSOURI. THESE STORMS WERE PART OF A LARGER AREA OF STORMS THAT EXTENDED INTO NORTHWEST MISSOURI. AS OF 520 AM THERE HAS NOT BEEN ANY REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER WITH THE STORMS IN NORTH- EAST AND CENTRAL MISSSOURI. HOWEVER...CONDITIONS ARE SUCH...THAT THE STORM COULD RAPIDLY INTENSIFY. IN ADDITION TO THE WATCH OVER NORTHEAST AND CENTRAL MISSOURI...ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI UNTIL 7 AM. SOME OF THE CITIES IN THIS WATCH ARE KANSAS CITY...ST JOSEPH...SEDALIA AND MACON. FERRY
Special weather statement, Sep 9, 5:59 AM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
MOZ006-009-010-011-013-014-091100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 600 AM CDT WED SEP 9 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR NORTH AND WEST SECTIONS OF CENTRAL MISSOURI UNTIL 1100 AM... AT 550 AM VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE ACROSS THE SAME GENERAL AREA IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI. ONE THUNDERSTORM WAS 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF COLUMBIA NEAR MEXICO. OTHER STORMS WERE IN A 20 MILE WIDE BAND FROM 30 MILES SOUTH OF KIRKSVILLE NEAR SHELBINA TO 45 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KIRKSVILLE NEAR SUMNER. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR...AND CONTAINED VERY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING STRIKES...GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS THE SAME GENERAL AREA FOR THE LAST SEVERAL HOURS...DUMPING COPIUS AMOUNTS OF RAIN OVER NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI. PERSONS LIVING IN LOW LYING OR FLOOD PRONE AREAS NEAR CREEKS OR STREAM BEDS..SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF FLASH FLODING THIS MORNING. A COLD FRONT WAS APPROACHING THE STATE OF MISSOURI THIS MORNING FROM THE NORTHWEST. THIS WILL LIKELY BRING ANOTHER ROUND OF SEVERE WEATHER TO THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR^ COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST ON THE SEVERE WEATHER IN THE AREA TODAY. LA GREE
Special weather statement, Sep 9, 6:18 AM CDT, 49 minutes before
MOZALL-091600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 615 AM CDT WED SEP 9 1992 ...AN OUTBREAK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED OVER MISSOURI... CONDITIONS ARE COMING TOGETHER FOR A SIGNIFICANT OUTBREAK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR NEARLY ALL OF MISSOURI TODAY INTO TONIGHT. THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS... LARGE HAIL...AND EVEN TONADOES ACROSS THE ENTIRE STATE. EARLY THIS MORNING AN EARLY OUTBREAK OF STORMS FORMED IN KANSAS JUST WEST OF KANSAS CITY AND RACED ACROSS NORTHERN MISSOURI DURING THE WEE HOURS OF THE MORNING. HAIL UP TO FOUR INCHES IN DIAMETER WAS REPORTED WITH ONE OF THESE STORMS IN KANSAS ABOUT 45 MILES NORTHWEST OF KANSAS CITY. THIS WAS ONLY A SAMPLE OF WHAT MIGHT BE COMING AS THE DAY WEARS ON. . SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES ARE IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHERN HALF OF MISSOURI EARLY THIS MORNING. ADDITIONAL WATCHES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS WILL BE ISSUED F ROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AS CONDITIONS WARRENT. BE ESPECIALLY CAREFUL TODAY...KEEP CLOSE TO SOME SORT OF NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR MEDIA SOURCE AND WATCH FOR LOCAL DANGER SIGNS OF IMPENDING WEATHER IN YOUR AREA. PEDIGO
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Adair | 43 min |
| Sep 9, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Knox | 48 min |
| Sep 9, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lewis | 66 min |
| Sep 9, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Shelby | 39 min |
| Sep 9, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Marion | 49 min |
| Sep 9, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe | 45 min |
| Sep 9, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln | 41 min |
| Sep 9, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Warren | 43 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.