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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 7, 1996, 4:26 AM CDT for Pike 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
- May 7, 1996, 4:26 AM CDT (09:26 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 1996, 7:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pike County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:30 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 237 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
- 944 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 276 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 070930 FFWSTL MOC163-137-173-205-071230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 426 AM CDT TUE MAY 7 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...PIKE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI ...MONROE COUNTY...RALLS COUNTY...SHELBY COUNTY ALTHOUGH THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE BEGINNING TO TAPER OFF OVER NORTHEAST MISSOURI AT 425 AM....THE EXCESSIVE OVERNIGHT RAINS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE FLOODING PROBLEMS ACROSS THE AREA OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS. RAINFALL ESTIMATES FROM RADAR INDICATE THAT 3 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN FELL OVERNIGHT IN A NARROW BAND FROM SOUTHWEST SHELBY COUNTY...ACROSS MONROE AND SOUTHWEST SECTIONS OF RALLS COUNTY...INTO SOUTHWEST SECTIONS OF PIKE COUNTY. IN SHELBY COUNTY AND POINTS WEST...CONSIDERABLE FLOODING IS BEING REPORTED ALONG HIGHWAY 36. IN RALLS COUNTY...ROUTE P IS UNDER WATER SOUTH OF CENTER. ADDITIONAL FLOODING PROBLEMS WILL UNDOUBTEDLY BE ENCOUNTED THIS MORNING AS MORE PEOPLE HEAD OFF TO WORK AND SCHOOL. 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. TRUETT &
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 11:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Marion, Monroe, Ralls | 5 hr |
| May 6, 11:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Shelby | 5 hr |
| May 7, 1:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Pike | 4 hr |
| May 7, 4:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Monroe, Ralls, Shelby | 3 hr |
| May 7, 12:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Cole, Moniteau | 4 hr |
| May 7, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Reynolds | 49 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.