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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 26, 1998, 11:05 AM CDT for Cole County, Moniteau 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
- Jul 26, 1998, 11:05 AM CDT (16:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 1998, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cole County, MO, Moniteau County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:07 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, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 221 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
- 1017 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 926 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 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 261608 FFWSTL MOC051-135-151-261900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1105 AM CDT SUN JUL 26 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... COLE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI MONITEAU COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI OSAGE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 200 PM CDT * ALTHOUGH MOST OF MONITEAU...COLE...AND OSAGE COUNTIES HAVE RECEIVED AN INCH OR LESS OF RAIN THIS MORNING...AREAS JUST TO THE SOUTH...IN MORGAN...MILLER...AND MARIES COUNTIES...HAVE PICKED UP OVER 5 INCHES OF RAIN. RUNOFF FROM THESE DOWNPOURS IN MORGAN...MILLER...AND MARIES COUNTIES IS NOW BEGINNING TO PRODUCE FLOODING IN SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF MONITEAU...COLE...AND OSAGE COUNTIES. * HIGHWAY A IS NOW CLOSED AT ENON...IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST MONITEAU COUNTY. FLOODING HAS ALSO BEEN REPORTED ALONG A ROADWAY NEAR THE COLE-MILLER COUNTY LINE...WHICH HAS DAMAGED THE ROADWAY. IN ADDITION...A HIGH WATER RESCUE WAS OCCURRING LATE THIS MORNING NEAR ARGYLE...ALONG THE MARIES-OSAGE COUNTY LINE. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR IMMINENT...MOVE QUICKLY TO HIGHER GROUND. NEVER DRIVE INTO AN AREA WHERE WATER CO VERS THE ROAD... ESPECIALLY LOW-WATER BRIDGES. IF YOU ARE CAMPING NEAR A SMALL STREAM...MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 6:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Crawford | 4 hr |
| Jul 26, 8:38 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Iron, Madison, Reynolds | 5 hr |
| Jul 26, 10:14 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Crawford | 4 hr |
| Jul 26, 11:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Osage | 3 hr |
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.