Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this flash flood warning at Apr 14, 1993, 6:27 PM CDT for Madison County, Missouri. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 14, 1993, 6:27 PM CDT (23:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 1993, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Madison County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 367 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -99 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1033 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Apr 14, 2:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 57 minutes before
MOZALL-150030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 230 PM CDT WED APR 14 1993 ...PROBLEMS ARE AHEAD FOR AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS... ...CATTLE FARMERS AND ORCHARD GROWERS SHOULD BE AWARE OF UPCOMING WEATHER... A MAJOR SPRING STORM IS FORECAST TO DEVELOP OVER EASTERN MISSOURI TONIGHT AND THURSDAY. AS IT STRENGTHENS...WINDS WILL INCREASE SHARPLY...TEMPERATURES WILL FALL STEADILY...AND RAIN WILL CONTINUE OVER MOST OF THE STATE. WINDS...WILL BECOME NORTH OR NORTHWEST AT 20 TO 35 MPH AND GUSTY. TEMPERATURES...WILL FALL ACROSS ALL BUT EXTREME EASTERN MISSOURI... FALLING TO 40 TO 45 BY MORNING...THEN LOWERING INTO THE 30S DURING THE DAY THURSDAY. PRECIPITATION...COLD RAINS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THURSDAY WITH AMOUNTS OF OVER ONE INCH COMMON. AREAS IN WHICH HEAVIER RAINS OCCUR WILL BE VULNERABLE TO FLOODING OF SMALLER STREAMS AND TRIBUTARIES. CATTLE AND OTHER AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS SHOULD BE AWARE THAT THE HEAVY RAINS...STRONG WINDS...AND COLD TEMPERATURS WILL PLACE STRESS ON LIVESTOCK...ESPECIALLY YOUNG ANIMALS...EXPOSED TO THE WEATHER ELEMENTS. PORTIONS OF NORTHERN MISSOURI COULD EVEN HAVE SNOW MIXED IN WITH THE RAINFALL THURSDAY NIGHT. ORCHARD GROWERS... COLD TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE WITH OVERNIGHT LOWS THURSDAY NIGNT FALLING TO 30 TO 35 DEGREES OVER MOST OF MISSOURI. GROWERS IN THE SOUTHERN THIRD OF MISSOURI REPORT BLOOMS ARE IN THE PINK STAGE AND MAY OPEN BY THE WEEKEND. THIS IS THE POINT AT WHICH FRUIT BLOSSOMS ARE THE MOST VULNERABLE. CURRENT INDICATIONS ARE THAT WINDS WILL PROBABLY CONTINUE TO BE TOO STRONG FOR GROWERS TO TAKE ANY ACTION AGAINST THE COLD. LOWS THURSDAY NIGHT COULD DROP BELOW FREEZING BUT WET GROUNDS AND WIND WILL PROBABLY KEEP TEMPERATURES FROM FALLING TO CRITICAL TEMPERATURES OF 26 OR 27 DEGREES TOMORROW NIGHT. PEDIGO
Special weather statement, Apr 14, 2:48 PM CDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before
MOZALL-150030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 230 PM CDT WED APR 14 1993 ...PROBLEMS ARE AHEAD FOR AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS... ...CATTLE FARMERS AND ORCHARD GROWERS SHOULD BE AWARE OF UPCOMING WEATHER... A MAJOR SPRING STORM IS FORECAST TO DEVELOP OVER EASTERN MISSOURI TONIGHT AND THURSDAY. AS IT STRENGTHENS...WINDS WILL INCREASE SHARPLY...TEMPERATURES WILL FALL STEADILY...AND RAIN WILL CONTINUE OVER MOST OF THE STATE. WINDS...WILL BECOME NORTH OR NORTHWEST AT 20 TO 35 MPH AND GUSTY. TEMPERATURES...WILL FALL ACROSS ALL BUT EXTREME EASTERN MISSOURI... FALLING TO 40 TO 45 BY MORNING...THEN LOWERING INTO THE 30S DURING THE DAY THURSDAY. PRECIPITATION...COLD RAINS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THURSDAY WITH AMOUNTS OF OVER ONE INCH COMMON. AREAS IN WHICH HEAVIER RAINS OCCUR WILL BE VULNERABLE TO FLOODING OF SMALLER STREAMS AND TRIBUTARIES. CATTLE AND OTHER AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS SHOULD BE AWARE THAT THE HEAVY RAINS...STRONG WINDS...AND COLD TEMPERATURS WILL PLACE STRESS ON LIVESTOCK...ESPECIALLY YOUNG ANIMALS...EXPOSED TO THE WEATHER ELEMENTS. PORTIONS OF NORTHERN MISSOURI COULD EVEN HAVE SNOW MIXED IN WITH THE RAINFALL THURSDAY NIGHT. ORCHARD GROWERS... COLD TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE WITH OVERNIGHT LOWS THURSDAY NIGNT FALLING TO 30 TO 35 DEGREES OVER MOST OF MISSOURI. GROWERS IN THE SOUTHERN THIRD OF MISSOURI REPORT BLOOMS ARE IN THE PINK STAGE AND MAY OPEN BY THE WEEKEND. THIS IS THE POINT AT WHICH FRUIT BLOSSOMS ARE THE MOST VULNERABLE. CURRENT INDICATIONS ARE THAT WINDS WILL PROBABLY CONTINUE TO BE TOO STRONG FOR GROWERS TO TAKE ANY ACTION AGAINST THE COLD. LOWS THURSDAY NIGHT COULD DROP BELOW FREEZING BUT WET GROUNDS AND WIND WILL PROBABLY KEEP TEMPERATURES FROM FALLING TO CRITICAL TEMPERATURES OF 26 OR 27 DEGREES TOMORROW NIGHT. PEDIGO
Special weather statement, Apr 14, 4:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
MOZALL-150300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 455 PM CDT WED APR 14 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL... THUNDERSTORMS IN ARKANSAS ARE EXPECTED TO INTENSIFTY AND MOVE TOWARD THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY SOME OF THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE AS THEY PASS THROUGH THE BOOTHEEL. A FEW OF THE STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE A TORNADO. A TORNADO WATCH IS ISSUED WHEN CONDITIONS ARE SUCH THAT TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR TO COMMERCIAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS. TUCKER
Special weather statement, Apr 14, 4:57 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
MOZALL-150300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 455 PM CDT WED APR 14 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL... THUNDERSTORMS IN ARKANSAS ARE EXPECTED TO INTENSIFTY AND MOVE TOWARD THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY SOME OF THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE AS THEY PASS THROUGH THE BOOTHEEL. A FEW OF THE STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE A TORNADO. A TORNADO WATCH IS ISSUED FWHEN CONDITIONS ARE SUCH THAT TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR TO COMMERCIAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS. TUCKER
Special weather statement, Apr 14, 5:30 PM CDT, 57 minutes before
MOZALL-191000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 530 PM CDT SUN APR 14 1993 ...A DEVELOPING STORM MAY PRODUCE SOME SEVERE WEATHER IN MISSOURI... A MAJOR STORM WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER THE CENTRAL PLAINS TONIGHT AND MOVE TOWARD THE MID MISSISSIPPI VALLEY MONDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP IN THE CENTRAL PLAINS TONIGHT AND MOVE INTO WESTERN MISSOURI. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE. THE STORM WILL BE MORE ORGANIZED ON MONDAY AND THERE WILL A BIGGER RISK OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...ESPECIALLY OVER THE EAST AND SOUTHEAST PORTION OF MISSOURI DURING THE AFTERNOON. THIS STORM WILL PULL SOME UNSEASONABLY COLD AIR INTO MISSOURI AS IT MOVES TOWARD THE GREAT LAKES. HIGH TEMPERATURES ON TUESDAY WILL BE IN THE UPPER 40S TO LOW 50S WITH SOME STRONG GUSTY WINDS. TUCKER
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin, Jefferson | 43 min |
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.