Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 7, 1993, 9:19 AM CDT for Lincoln County, Missouri. It was in force for 109 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 7, 1993, 9:19 AM CDT (14:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 1993, 11:08 AM CDT
- In force
- 109 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 297 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
- 1291 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 701 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 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 071428 COR FFWSTL MOC113-071715- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 919 AM CDT WED JUL 7 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...LINCOLN COUNTY AT 910 AM...RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER NORTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY FROM 15 MILES WEST THROUGH 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF TROY. THIS IS ABOUT 50 MILES NORTHWEST OF ST LOUIS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE LINCOLN COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED ABOUT 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN OVER THE NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE COUNTY. WATER WAS BEGINNING FLOW OVER SOME ROADS. MORE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED TO THE SOUT FROM ST CHARLES COUNTY INTO WARREN COUNTY. THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING ACROSS LINCOLN COUNTY THROUGH 11 AM. THE ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN ON THE ALREADY SATURATED SOIL WILL CAUSE ADDITIONAL FLOODING. 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 WSHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. FERRY &
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 7, 5:45 AM CDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before
MOZALL-081200- MISSOURI SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 545 AM CDT WED JUL 7 1993 THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE WIDESPREAD ACROSS MISSOURI AGAIN TODAY AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A CHANCE THAT SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SEVERE...GENERALLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM SPRINGFIELD TO ST LOUIS. STORM SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS SHOULD KEEP ADVISED OF THE LATEST FORECAST FOR POSSIBLE SKYWARN ACTION.
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 6:07 AM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before
MOZALL-081200- MISSOURI SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 545 AM CDT WED JUL 7 1993 THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE WIDESPREAD ACROSS MISSOURI AGAIN TODAY AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A CHANCE THAT SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SEVERE...GENERALLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM SPRINGFIELD TO ST LOUIS. STORM SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS SHOULD KEEP ADVISED OF THE LATEST FORECAST FOR POSSIBLE SKYWARN ACTION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 10:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Franklin | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 12:36 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Crawford | 4 hr |
| Jul 7, 1:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin | 41 min |
| Jul 7, 2:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Saint Charles | 5 hr |
| Jul 7, 2:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 44 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.