Alert archive / Illinois / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this flash flood warning at Apr 14, 1993, 7:36 PM CDT for Jersey County, Madison County, Illinois. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 14, 1993, 7:36 PM CDT (00:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 1993, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jersey County, IL, Madison County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 245 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -193 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1442 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 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 150039 FFWSTL ILC083-119-150345- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 736 PM CDT WED APR 14 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS ...SOUTHEASTERN JERSEY COUNTY...NORTHWESTERN MADISON COUNTY ...AT 730 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...20 MILES NORTH OF ST LOUIS...IN EXTREME NORTHWEST MADISON AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST JERSEY COUNTY OF ILLINOIS. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THERE WERE ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM 20 MILES WEST OF ST LOUIS TO 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF ST LOUIS. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF JERSEY AND THE NORTHWEST PART OF MADISON COUNTY BETWEEN 745 AND 845 PM. THE GROUND IS ALREADY SATURATED AND THE RAIN WILL RUN OFF RAPIDLY...PRODUCING LOCAL FLASH FLOODING. 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 SUBJE8CT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. TUCKER
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, 4:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 41 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, 2 hours 39 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, 2 hours 6 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
Special weather statement, Apr 14, 7:15 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
MOZ012-150115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 715 PM CDT WED APR 14 1993 ...SOME VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH ST LOUIS COUNTY AND HEADING INTO MADISON AND JERSEY COUNTIES IN ILLINOIS... AT 710 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN NORTH ST LOUIS COUNTY...NEAR FLORISSANT. THIS STORM CONTAINED VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND AND POSSIBLY HAIL. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO NORTHERN MADISON AND JERSEY COUNTIES...ILLINOIS. THE STORM WILL PASS NEAR ALTON BETWEEN 720 AND 730 PM. SOME STREET FLOODING IS LIKELY IN NORTHERN MADISON AND JERSEY COUNTIES BETWEEN 730 AND 830 PM. TUCKER
Special weather statement, Apr 14, 7:19 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
MOZ012-150115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 715 PM CDT WED APR 14 1993 ...SOME VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH ST LOUIS COUNTY AND HEADING INTO MADISON AND CALHOUN COUNTIES IN ILLINOIS... AT 710 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN NORTH ST LOUIS COUNTY...NEAR FLORISSANT. THIS STORM CONTAINED VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND AND POSSIBLY HAIL. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO NORTHERN MADISON AND JERSEY COUNTIES...ILLINOIS. THE STORM WILL PASS NEAR ALTON BETWEEN 720 AND 730 PM. SOME STREET FLOODING IS LIKELY IN NORTHERN MADISON AND JERSEY COUNTIES BETWEEN 730 AND 83,0 PM. TUCKER
Special weather statement, Apr 14, 7:24 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
MOZ012-150115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 715 PM CDT WED APR 14 1993 ...SOME VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH ST LOUIS COUNTY AND HEADING INTO MADISON AND JERSEY COUNTIES IN ILLINOIS... AT 710 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN NORTH ST LOUIS COUNTY...NEAR FLORISSANT. THIS STORM CONTAINED VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND AND POSSIBLY HAIL. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO NORTHERN MADISON AND JERSEY COUNTIES...ILLINOIS. THE STORM WILL PASS NEAR ALTON BETWEEN 720 AND 730 PM. SOME STREET FLOODING IS LIKELY IN NORTHERN MADISON AND JERSEY COUNTIES BETWE2EN 730 AND 830 PM. TUCKER
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.