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Flash Flood Warning 35, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 14, 1996, 8:48 PM CDT for Sainte Genevieve County, Missouri. It was in force for 4 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 14, 1996, 8:48 PM CDT (01:48 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 1996, 12:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sainte Genevieve County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 286 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
- 1172 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 673 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 14, 7:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
MOZ009-010-018-019-026-027-034>036-041-042-047>050-150230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 736 PM CDT TUE MAY 14 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #368 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST MISSOURI... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 368 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR SCOTLAND...CLARK...KNOX...LEWIS...SHELBY...MARION...MONROE... RALLS...PIKE...AUDRAIN...BOONE...CALLAWAY...MONITEAU...COLE ...AND OSAGE COUNTIES IN MISSOURI. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS LESSENED FOR THE TIME BEING. THERE IS HOWEVER STILL A POSSIBILITY OF ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY LATE TONIGHT. KEEP ABREAST OF LOCAL WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS AND LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS. PEDIGO
Special weather statement, May 14, 7:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
MOZ009-010-018-019-026-027-034>036-041-042-047>050-150230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 736 PM CDT TUE MAY 14 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #368 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST MISSOURI... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 368 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR SCOTLAND...CLARK...KNOX...LEWIS...SHELBY...MARION...MONROE... RALLS...PIKE...AUDRAIN...BOONE...CALLAWAY...MONITEAU...COLE ...AND OSAGE COUNTIES IN MISSOURI. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS LESSENED FOR THE TIME BEING. THERE IS HOWEVER STILL A POSSIBILITY OF ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY LATE TONIGHT. KEEP ABREAST OF LOCAL WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS AND LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS. PEDIGO
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 7:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Franklin | 59 min |
| May 14, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin | 59 min |
| May 14, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Iron, Reynolds | 40 min |
| May 14, 7:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Franklin, Jefferson | 31 min |
| May 14, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin, Jefferson | 31 min |
| May 14, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Madison | 39 min |
| May 14, 8:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Jefferson, Sainte Genevieve | 3 hr |
| May 14, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 31 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.