Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 24, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 10, 1995, 3:55 AM CDT for Lincoln County, Montgomery County, Pike County, Missouri. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 1995, 3:55 AM CDT (08:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 1995, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lincoln County, MO, Montgomery County, MO, Pike County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 251 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
- 4119 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1074 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 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 100900 FFWSTL ILC013-MOC139-113-163-101300- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 355 AM CDT THU AUG 10 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS ...CALHOUN COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI ...NORTHERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...LINCOLN COUNTY...PIKE COUNTY AT 355 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST MISSOURI AND SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS. THE PIKE COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE REPORTED FLOODING ALONG HIGHWAY D NEAR STARK. THE DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT A LARGE AREA OF 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS PIKE COUNTY SINCE 245 AM. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. NEVER DRIVE OR WALK INTO FLOOD WATER. TPS
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, Aug 10, 2:00 AM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
ILZ102-MOZ065-100800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 200 AM CDT THU AUG 10 1995 ...SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN JUST SOUTH OF ST LOUIS... AT 200 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS JEFFERSON COUNTY MISSOURI AND MONROE COUNTY ILLINOIS. THE DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED A BAND OF 1 RAIN FELL ACROSS CENTRAL JEFFERSON COUNTY SINCE 100 AM WITH A SMALL 2 INCH AREA NEAR VALMEYER. PERSONS IN HILLSBORO...FESTUS...AND MAEYSTOWN COULD EXPERIENCE VERY HEAVY RAIN BETWEEN 2 O'CLOCK AND 3 O'CLOCK THIS MORNING. PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS IN LIKELY EARLY THIS MORNING. WWUS35KSGF 0)a
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 2:11 AM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
ILZ102-MOZ065-100800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 200 AM CDT THU AUG 10 1995 ...SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN JUST SOUTH OF ST LOUIS... AT 200 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS JEFFERSON COUNTY MISSOURI AND MONROE COUNTY ILLINOIS. THE DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED A BAND OF 1 RAIN FELL ACROSS CENTRAL JEFFERSON COUNTY SINCE 100 AM WITH A SMALL 2 INCH AREA NEAR VALMEYER. PERSONS IN HILLSBORO...FESTUS...AND MAEYSTOWN COULD EXPERIENCE VERY HEAVY RAIN BETWEEN 2 O'CLOCK AND 3 O'CLOCK THIS MORNING. PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS IN LIKELY EARLY THIS MORNING.
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 3:30 AM CDT, 25 minutes before
MOZ035-036-100930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 330 AM CDT THU AUG 10 1995 ...HEAVY RAIN WAS FALLING ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST MISSOURI... AT 325 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS RALLS AND PIKE COUNTIES MISSOURI. THE DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED A LARGE AREA OF 1 RAIN FELL ACROSS THESE COUNTIES WITH SOME ISOLATED 2 INCH AMOUNTS SINCE 215 AM. THE CITIES/TOWNS OF BOWLING GREEN...CLARKSVILLE AND CURRYVILLE SHOULD EXPERIENCE VERY HEAVY RAIN BETWEEN 330 AM AND 430 AM THIS MORNING. PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS IS LIKELY EARLY THIS MORNING ACROSS PORTIONS OF PIKE AND RALLS COUNTIES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 11:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Clark | 69 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.