Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this flash flood warning at Apr 19, 1996, 6:36 PM CDT for Crawford County, Washington County, Missouri. It was in force for 69 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 19, 1996, 6:36 PM CDT (23:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 1996, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Crawford County, MO, Washington County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:40 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 267 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2849 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 377 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 532 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 192338 FFWSTL MOC055-221-200045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 636 PM CDT FRI APR 19 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...CRAWFORD COUNTY...WASHINGTON COUNTY AT 640 PM...THE ST LOUIS WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG STORM IN THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF CROWFORD COUNT...THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEASST AT 40 MPH...CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE POTOSI...STEELVILLE...RICHWOODS AND ANTONY MILLS. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! BE PREPAdRED FOR DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. STAY INSIDE AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF OUTDOORS...SEEK INSIDE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
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 19, 3:56 PM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
ILZ058>060-064-065-069-070-074-095>102-MOZ009-010-018-019-026-027- 034>036-041-042-048>052-059>065-200400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 400 PM CDT FRI APR 19 1996 ...A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI... STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS PORTIONS OF EASTERN MISSOURI DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. A TORNADO WATCH WILL BE IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR THE NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL PORTION. THE WATCH INCLUDES THE ST LOUIS METROPOLITAN AREA... COLUMBIA...JEFFERSON CITY...MEXICO...AND THE HANNIBAL...QUINCY AREA. PLEASE STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND COMMERCIAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
Special weather statement, Apr 19, 6:25 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
ILZ098-MOZ036-052-060-061-200215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 625 PM CDT FRI APR 19 1996 ...TORNADO WATCH IS CANCELLED FOR A PORTION OF EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI... THE6 TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PIKE COUNTY MISSOURI ALONG WITH LINCOLN...WARREN...AND ST CHARLES COUNTIES. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS MOVED TO THE EAST OF THE AREA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike, Ralls | 41 min |
| Apr 19, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln | 57 min |
| Apr 19, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Crawford, Franklin, Washington | 64 min |
| Apr 19, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Charles | 51 min |
| Apr 19, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | City of Saint Louis | 59 min |
| Apr 19, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 59 min |
| Apr 19, 5:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 42 min |
| Apr 19, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Crawford | 68 min |
| Apr 19, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Louis | 45 min |
| Apr 19, 5:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Saint Louis | 48 min |
| Apr 19, 5:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 48 min |
| Apr 19, 5:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Lincoln, Saint Charles | 64 min |
| Apr 19, 5:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Washington | 32 min |
| Apr 19, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin, Washington | 39 min |
| Apr 19, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois | 44 min |
| Apr 19, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | City of Saint Louis | 41 min |
| Apr 19, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 31 min |
| Apr 19, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Iron, Reynolds | 53 min |
| Apr 19, 6:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois | 50 min |
| Apr 19, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 54 min |
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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.