Alert archive / Illinois / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 19, 1993, 11:25 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Missouri; Calhoun County, Greene County, Illinois. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 1993, 11:25 PM CDT (04:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 1993, 2:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Calhoun County, IL, Greene County, IL, Lincoln County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 292 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
- 38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1533 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 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 200426 FFWSTL ILC013-061-MOC113-200730- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1125 PM CDT SAT JUN 19 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS ...NORTHERN HALF OF CALHOUN COUNTY...GREENE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...NORTHEAST LINCOLN COUNTY BETWEEN 10 AND 11 PM...FLOODING CONTINUED TO BE REPORTED FROM NORTHEAST LINCOLN COUNTY IN MISSOURI...THROUGH THE NORTHERN HALF OF CALHOUN COUNTY IN ILLINOIS. ALTHOUGH NO ADDITIONAL FLOODING REPORTS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM GREENE COUNTY ILLINOIS...RADAR INDICATES THAT EXCESSIVE RAINS ALSO OCCURRED IN THIS COUNTY...MAKING FLASH FLOODING A REAL POSSIBILITY. REPORTS FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT INDICATE THAT FLOODING HAS HIT HARDEST IN AN AREA FROM AROUND ELSBERRY MISSOURI IN NORTHEAST LINCOLN COUNTY...TO JUST NORTH OF HARDIN ILLINOIS...IN CALHOUN COUNTY. SEVERAL ROADS...INCLUDING MISSOURI HIGHWAY 79...HAVE BEEN MADE IMPASSIBLE BY HIGH WATER...AND BY BRIDGES AND CULVERTS BEING SWEPT AWAY BY FLOOD WATERS. SOME EVACUATIONS ARE ALSO BEING MADE IN THE TOWN OF ELSBERRY. AT 1125 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OVER THIS AREA AS WELL. HOWEVER...THE RAIN WAS MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST...AND IT APPEARS THAT MOST OF THE RAIN SHOULD BE ENDING BETWEEN 12 MIDNIGHT AND 1 AM. 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. MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. 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. $ TRUETT &
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 8:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 8:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Calhoun, Greene | 3 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.