Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jan 13, 1995, 1:05 AM CST for Saint Louis County, City of Saint Louis, Missouri. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 13, 1995, 1:05 AM CST (07:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 13, 1995, 5:45 AM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 225 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
- 555 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 911 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSTL 130706 FFWSTL MOC189-510-131145- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 105 AM CST FRI JAN 13 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...SOUTHERN ST LOUIS COUNTY AND THE INDEPENDENT CITY OF ...ST LOUIS CITY THE HEAVY RAINS OF LATE THURSDAY EVENING HAS CAUSED FLOODING OVER PARTS OF SOUTHERN ST LOUIS COUNTY. AT 1250 PM...ST LOUIS COUNTY POLICE REPORTED LEMAY FERRY ROAD WAS CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING...AS WELL AS MERAMAC BOTTOM ROAD. A CAR WAS WASHED OFF THE ROAD BY FLOOD WATERS NEAR GRANTS FARM...AND MATESE CREEK WAS ALSO OUT OF ITS BANKS NEAR THEIS ROAD. 5 INCHES OF WATER WAS ALSO COVERING HIGHWAY 100 AT GRAY SUMMIT. THE HEAVY RAIN SO FAR TONIGHT HAS BEEN QUITE LOCALLIZED. AT 1 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE RAINFALL WAS BECOMING LESS INTENSE...BUT PERIODIC RAINS WILL CONTINUE OVER THE WARNING AREA FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS 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. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. TRUETT/PEDIGO &
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, Jan 12, 9:12 PM CST, 3 hours 53 minutes before
MOZ062-065-061-063-064-130515- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 912 PM CST THU JAN 12 1995 AT 9 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AT WELDON SPRINGS INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EASTERN FRANKLIN AND NORTHWESTERN JEFFERSON COUNTIES IN MISSOURI. THE SHOWERS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AND WILL MOVE ACROSS MUCH OF THE ST LOUIS METROPOLITIAN AREA BETWEEN 930 AND 1030 PM TONIGHT. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. WORK
Special weather statement, Jan 12, 9:22 PM CST, 3 hours 43 minutes before
MOZ062-065-061-063-064-130515- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 912 PM CST THU JAN 12 1995 AT 9 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AT WELDON SPRINGS INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EASTERN FRANKLIN AND NORTHWESTERN JEFFERSON COUNTIES IN MISSOURI. THE SHOWERS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AND WILL MOVE ACROSS MUCH OF THE ST LOUIS METROPOLITIAN AREA BETWEEN 930 AND 1030 PM TONIGHT. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. WORK
Special weather statement, Jan 12, 10:21 PM CST, 2 hours 44 minutes before
MOZ062-065-061-063-064-130515- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 912 PM CST THU JAN 12 1995 AT 9 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AT WELDON SPRINGS INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EASTERN FRANKLIN AND NORTHWESTERN JEFFERSON COUNTIES IN MISSOURI. THE SHOWERS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AND WILL MOVE ACROSS MUCH OF THE ST LOUIS METROPOLITIAN AREA BETWEEN 930 AND 1030 PM TONIGHT. THE SE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. WORK
Special weather statement, Jan 12, 10:56 PM CST, 2 hours 9 minutes before
MOZ055>058-068>070-130600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MISSOURI 1056 PM CST THU JAN 12 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN THE SOUTH PART OF CENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 1055 PM CST STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING 5 TO 10 MILES NORTHEST OF HERMITAGE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL CROSS THE WEST END OF THE LAKE OF THE OZARKS IN NORTHWEST CAMDEN COUNTY AND SOUTHWEST MORGAN COUNTY BY 1130 PM. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 15 MILES EAST OF ROLLA TO 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WAYNESVILLE AND THEN ON SOUTHWEST TOWARD SPRINGFIELD. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH WHILE THE LINE WAS LIFTING SLOWLY NORTH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT WAYNESVILLE THORUGH 12 AM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE FREQUENT LIGHTNING...BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY. KENNEDY
Special weather statement, Jan 12, 10:59 PM CST, 2 hours 6 minutes before
MOZ055>058-068>070-130600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MISSOURI 1056 PM CST THU JAN 12 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN THE SOUTH PART OF CENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 1055 PM CST STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING 5 TO 10 MILES NORTHEST OF HERMITAGE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL CROSS THE WEST END OF THE LAKE OF THE OZARKS IN NORTHWEST CAMDEN COUNTY AND SOUTHWEST MORGAN COUNTY BY 1130 PM. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 15 MILES EAST OF ROLLA TO 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WAYNESVILLE AND THEN ON SOUTHWEST TOWARD SPRINGFIELD. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH WHILE THE LINE WAS LIFTING SLOWLY NORTH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT WAYNESVILLE THORUGH 12 AM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE FREQUENT LIGHTNING...BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IjF A STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY. KENNEDY
Special weather statement, Jan 12, 11:05 PM CST, 2 hours before
MOZ055>058-068>070-130600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MISSOURI 1056 PM CST THU JAN 12 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN THE SOUTH PART OF CENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 1055 PM CST STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING 5 TO 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF HERMITAGE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL CROSS THE WEST END OF THE LAKE OF THE OZARKS IN NORTHWEST CAMDEN COUNTY AND SOUTHWEST MORGAN COUNTY BY 1130 PM. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 15 MILES EAST OF ROLLA TO 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WAYNESVILLE AND THEN ON SOUTHWEST TOWARD SPRINGFIELD. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH WHILE THE LINE WAS LIFTING SLOWLY NORTH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT WAYNESVILLE THORUGH 12 AM. RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY. KENNEDY
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.