Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 6, 1993, 6:47 PM CDT for Franklin County, Missouri. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 1993, 6:47 PM CDT (23:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 1993, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Franklin County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:49 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
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 257 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 0 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 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 062350 FFWSTL MOC071-070345- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 647 PM CDT TUE JUL 6 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...FRANKLIN COUNTY ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR FRANKLIN COUNTY UNTIL 1030 PM... AT 645 PM...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR FRANKLIN COUNTY UNTIL 1030 PM. RADAR ESTIMATES ONE TO TWO INCHES HAVE FALLEN IN THIS COUNTY SINCE 400 PM. THE WASHINGTON CITY POLICE HAVE REPORTED STREAMS NEAR BANKFULL. RADAR WAS SHOWING MODERATE RAINS OVER THE NORTH PART OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVIER RAIN WERE WEST OF THIS AREA FROM NORTHERN FRANKLIN COUNTY WEST TO JEFFERSON CITY. THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE MOVING EAST INTO FRANKLIN COUNTY BETWEEN 700 AND 1000 PM. WITH ADDITIONAL RAINS EXPECTED THIS EVENING ON TOP OF ALREADY SATURATED GROUNDS RESIDENTS CAN EXPECT FLOODING OF STREAMS AND LOW LYING AREAS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO9 CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. GKS
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, Jul 6, 3:59 PM CDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
MOZALL-062200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 359 PM CDT TUE JUL 6 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 602 HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI UNTIL 9 PM... AT 350 PM...NWS DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM THE ST. LOUIS AREA SOUTHWEST TO 25 MILES EAST OF ROLLA. STORM MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WAS NOW IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI UNTIL 9 PM. IF ANY OF THESE STORMS MOVE INTO YOUR AREA...MOVE TO SHELTER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADOR OR LOCAL TV BROADCASTS FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS. GOETSCH
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 4:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before
MOZALL-062200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 359 PM CDT TUE JUL 6 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 602 HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI UNTIL 9 PM... AT 350 PM...NWS DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM THE ST. LOUIS AREA SOUTHWEST TO 25 MILES EAST OF ROLLA. STORM MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WAS NOWW IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI UNTIL 9 PM. IF ANY OF THESE STORMS MOVE INTO YOUR AREA...MOVE TO SHELTER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADOR OR LOCAL TV BROADCASTS FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS. GOETSCH
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 5:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
MOZ006-009-010-011-013-014-062330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 535 PM CDT TUE JUL 6 1993 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT TONIGHT... AT 530 PM A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS ABOUT 5 MILES WIDE EXTENDED FROM THE CITY OF COLUMBIA TO ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTH OF SEDALIA NEAR STOVER. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. A WEATHER SPOTTER IN BOONEVILLE REPORTED WIND GUSTS AS HIGH AS 45 MILES AN HOUR WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS AT 520 PM...ALSO EXPECT TORRENTIAL RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING STRIKES. THE GROUND AROUND CENTRAL MISSOURI IS ALREADY SATURATED AND ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL TONIGHT WILL CAUSE FLOODING...AND POSSIBLY FLASH FLOODING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND IF NECESSARY WARNINGS. LA GREE
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 5:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
MOZ006-009-010-011-013-014-062330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 535 PM CDT TUE JUL 6 1993 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT TONIGHT... AT 530 PM A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS ABOUT 5 MILES WIDE EXTENDED FROM THE CITY OF COLUMBIA TO ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTH OF SEDALIA NEAR STOVER. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. A WEATHER SPOTTER IN BOONEVILLE REPORTED WIND GUSTS AS HIGH AS 45 MILES AN HOUR WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS AT 520 PM...ALSO EXPECT TORRENTIAL RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING STRIKES. THE GROUND AROUND CENTRAL MISSOURI IS ALREADY SATURATED AND ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL TONIGHT WILL CAUSE FLOODING...AND POSSIBLY FLASH FLOODING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND IF NECESSARY WARNINGS. LA GREE
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 6:11 PM CDT, 36 minutes before
MOZ012-018-022-ILZ011-012-013-070115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 611 PM CDT TUE JUL 6 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS UNTIL 900 PM... AT 610 PM...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI...INCLUDING THE ST. LOUIS METRO AREA...SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS... AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI CONTINUES UNTIL 900 PM. RADAR WAS DETECTING STRONGEST STORMS NEAR REILY LAKE IN SOUTHWESTERN RANDOLPH COUNTY AND IN ELKTON IN WESTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY. STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS THAT CONDTIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF STORMS WHICH MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. RESIDENTS IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND LOCAL MEDIA SOURCES FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. GKS
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 6:14 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
MOZ012-018-022-ILZ011-012-013-070115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 611 PM CDT TUE JUL 6 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS UNTIL 900 PM... AT 610 PM...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI...INCLUDING THE ST. LOUIS METRO AREA...SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS... AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI CONTINUES UNTIL 900 PM. RADAR WAS DETECTING STRONGEST STORMS NEAR REILY LAKE IN SOUTHWESTERN RANDOLPH COUNTY AND IN ELKTON IN WESTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY. STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS THAT CONDTIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF STORMS WHICH MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. RESIDENTS IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND LOCAL MEDIA SOURCES FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. GKS
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Phelps | 25 min |
| Jul 6, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Crawford | 30 min |
| Jul 6, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Washington | 53 min |
| Jul 6, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Francois | 48 min |
| Jul 6, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Sainte Genevieve | 40 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 1993Every flash flood warning in 1993
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.