Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996

Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS St. Louis, MO

April 19, 1996Iron County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this flash flood warning at Apr 19, 1996, 8:45 PM CDT for Iron County, Missouri. It was in force for 3 hr. 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, 8:45 PM CDT (01:45 UTC)
Expired: Apr 19, 1996, 11:45 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS St. Louis, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Iron County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:44 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 00:00Z, 1.8 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3220 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSTL 200147
FFWSTL
MOC093-200445-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
845 PM CDT FRI APR 19 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI
 
   ...NORTHERN IRON COUNTY
 
AT 845 PM...ST LOUIS RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTOMS IN REYNOLDS
COUNTY...THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AND ARE EFFECTING THE
NORTHERN PORTION OF IRON COUNTY. THESE STORMS HAVE HISTORY OF VERY HEAVY
RAIN...PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING.
 
 
IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR IMMINENT...MOVE QUICKLY TO
HIGHER GROUND. NEVER DRIVE INTO AN AREA WHERE WATER COVERS THE
ROAD...ESPECIALLY LOW-WATER BRIDGES.
 
IF YOU LIVE NEAR A SMALL STREAM OR OTHER LOW LYING FLOOD-
PRONE AREA...BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND QUICKLY.
YOUR LIFE MAY DEPEND ON IT.
 
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.
VA

The office that day

Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 19, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis	42 min
Apr 19, 7:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Iron, Saint Francois	56 min
Apr 19, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Crawford, Washington	49 min
Apr 19, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Reynolds	50 min
Apr 19, 7:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Sainte Genevieve	47 min
Apr 19, 7:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois	50 min
Apr 19, 8:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Iron	49 min
Apr 19, 8:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Iron, Reynolds	47 min
Apr 19, 8:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Madison	52 min
Apr 19, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Madison, Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois	48 min
Apr 19, 9:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LSX	Madison, Saint Francois	3 hr
Apr 19, 9:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Reynolds	42 min
Apr 19, 9:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Iron, Reynolds	43 min
Apr 19, 9:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Madison	42 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 1996 Every flash flood warning in 1996

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.