Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 27, 1995, 10:15 PM CDT for 5 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 1995, 10:15 PM CDT (03:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 1995, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Franklin County, MO, Gasconade County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Saint Charles County, MO, Warren County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 284 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
- 1342 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 829 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 263 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 333 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.3
- Supercell composite
- 12.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSTL 280316 FFWSTL MOC073-071-161-183-219-280700- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1015 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL MISSOURI ...GASCONADE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...FRANKLIN COUNTY...PHELPS COUNTY...ST CHARLES COUNTY ...WARREN COUNTY AT 1015 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN EXTENDING FROM JUST NORTHWEST OF ST CHARLES...TO JUST NORTHWEST OF ROLLA. THE THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS LINE WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. SINCE THE LINE IS MOVING SLOWLY...SEVERAL STORMS WILL BE PASSING OVER THE SAME AREA...CAUSING TORRENTIAL RAINS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. AND DUE TO THE SATURATED GROUND AND ALREADY HIGH WATER LEVELS...FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY!!! BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS IF CAMPING NEAR A STREAM. RAIN UPSTREAM MAY CAUSE FLASH FLOODING AT YOUR LOCATION WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING. FLASH FLOODING IS THE LEADING WEATHER RELATED KILLER ACROSS THE UNITED STATES. NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF FLOWING WATER. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY WHEN FLOODING THREATENS. YOUR LIFE MAY DEPEND ON IT. 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, May 27, 7:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before
MOZ069-280110- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MISSOURI 708 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE JUST SOUTH OF THE LAKE OF THE OZARKS... AT 705PM A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS REACHED FROM 60 MILES NORTHEAST TO 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD...OR FROM 15 MILES WEST OF CAMDENTON NEAR CLIMAX SPRINGS TO THE BOLIVAR AREA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES PER HOUR. WHILE STRONG WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE AS WELL. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE CAMDENTON...MONTREAL... LINN CREEK...HURRICANE DECK...AND OSAGE BEACH. MUCH OF THE LAKE OF THE OZARKS IS IN DANGER FROM THESE STORMS AS WELL. WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED AS THE STORMS MOVE THROUGH OVER THE NEXT HOUR. ALSO...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1AM. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A tSTORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY. IF YOU SPOT A TORNADO...NEVER TRY TO OUTRUN IT IN A CAR. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. REAUGH
Special weather statement, May 27, 7:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
MOZ057-058-069-070-280145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MISSOURI 743 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995 AT 740 PM A 20 MILE WIDE BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JEFFERSON CITY NEAR ELDON TO SPRINGFIELD. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 45 MILES PER HOUR. THIS BAND OF STORMS IS CAPABLE OF TORRENTIAL RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MILES PER HOUR. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS BAND OF STORMS INCLUDE IBERIA...CROCKER.. DIXON...AND VIENNA. ALL OF THESE TOWNS SHOULD FEEL THE EFFECTS OF THE STORMS BEFORE 840PM. ALSO...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1AM. 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. IF YOU SPOT A TORNADO...NEVER TRY TO OUTRUN IT IN A CAR. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. REAUGH
Special weather statement, May 27, 8:10 PM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
ILZ066-065-280200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 808 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER FAYETTE COUNTY ILLINOIS... AT 807 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A NARROW LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER FAYETTE COUNTY ILLINOIS...EXTENDING FROM NEAR WRIGHTS CORNER....TO NEAR VANDALIA. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL BE PASSING THROUGH EASTERN FAYETTE AND ALL OF EFFINGHAM COUNTIES BETWEEEN 807 AND 900 PM THIS EVENING. BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...AND WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MILES AN HOUR...CAN BE EXPECTED. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THIS AREA...SO PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...INCLUDING THOSE IN THE EFbFINGHAM AND ALTAMONT AREAS...SHOULD REMAIN ALERT. TRUETT/FERRY
Special weather statement, May 27, 8:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
MOZ059-049-280215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 843 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS EASTERN OSAGE COUNTY... AT 840 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER EASTERN OSAGE COUNTY...FROM NEAR LINN TO EAST OF FREEBURG. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. CURRENTLY...RADAR INDICATES THAT SMALL HAIL...AND WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MILES AN HOUR...MAY OCCUR WITH THE PASSAGE OF THIS STORM AS IT MOVES THROUGH THE TOWNS OF BLAND...OWENSVILLE...AND DRAKBE BETWEEN 840 AND 915 PM. HOWEVER...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT...AND PEOPLE IN THESE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR FURTHER STRENGTHENING OF THIS STORM. TRUETT/FERRY
Special weather statement, May 27, 9:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
MOZ071-280300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 903 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 900 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR OWENSVILLE IN GASCONADE COUNTY....TO ABOUT 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROLLA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL BE ENTERING NORTHWEST PHELPS COUNTY BY 915 PM...AND THE ROLLA AREA BETWEEN 930 AND 10 PM. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THIS AREA. PEOPLE IN PHELPS COUNTY SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THE RAPIDLY CHAGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. TRUETT/PEDIGO
Special weather statement, May 27, 9:50 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
MOZ055>058-068>070-280350- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MISSOURI 947 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM CDT... AT 945 PM RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF JEFFERSON CITY TO 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF SPRINGFIELD. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND WINDS TO 45 MPH. THE STORMS WILL CONTINUE AFFECT BELLE...VEINNA...DIXON...AND WAYNESVILLE THROUGH 1015 PM. IF YOU ARE BEING AFFECTED BY THESE STORMS STAY INSIDE AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. ALSO...THESE STORMS STILL HAVE THE CAPABILITY TO BECOME SEVERE SO LISTEvN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. KENNEDY
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 7:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Dent | 36 min |
| May 27, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Iron, Washington | 41 min |
| May 27, 8:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Camden, Miller, Pulaski | 62 min |
| May 27, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin, Warren | 45 min |
| May 27, 10:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Camden, Miller | 116 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 1995Every flash flood warning in 1995
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.