Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 38, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 5, 1996, 11:17 PM CDT for Shelby County, Missouri. It was in force for 5 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
- Jun 5, 1996, 11:17 PM CDT (04:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1996, 4:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Shelby County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 171 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:19 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
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 242 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
- 1505 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 220 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSTL 060420 FFWSTL MOC137-173-205-060915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1117 PM CDT WED JUN 5 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI ...MONROE COUNTY...RALLS COUNTY...SHELBY COUNTY WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN FELL OVER PARTS OF SHELBY...MONROE...AND RALLS COUNTIES BETWEEN 8 AND 11 PM. WITH THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING OVER THESE AREA FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS...FLASH FLOODING WILL BE A VERY REAL THREAT. 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. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS IF CAMPING NEAR A STREAM. RAIN UPSTREAM MAY CAUSE FLASH FLOODING AT YOUR LOCATION WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING. TRUETT
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Knox, Lewis | 42 min |
| Jun 5, 9:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Knox | 33 min |
| Jun 5, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Shelby | 45 min |
| Jun 5, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Marion, Monroe, Ralls | 60 min |
| Jun 5, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lewis | 60 min |
| Jun 5, 10:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 68 min |
| Jun 5, 11:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Monroe, Ralls | 5 hr |
| Jun 6, 1:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Monroe, Ralls | 50 min |
| Jun 6, 1:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe, Ralls | 50 min |
| Jun 6, 12:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Osage | 49 min |
| Jun 6, 2:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Washington | 52 min |
| Jun 6, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin | 38 min |
| Jun 6, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin, Saint Louis | 44 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.