Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998

Flash Flood Warning 52, NWS St. Louis, MO

October 5, 1998Moniteau County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this flash flood warning at Oct 5, 1998, 3:52 PM CDT for Moniteau 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
Oct 5, 1998, 3:52 PM CDT (20:52 UTC)
Expired
Oct 5, 1998, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Moniteau County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 220 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1998-10-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 263 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1998-10-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 323 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
263 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-97 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
570 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
323 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
352 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.5

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 5, 8:50 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLSXMoniteau4 hr
Oct 5, 9:11 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLSXKnox4 hr
Oct 5, 10:18 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLSXBoone, Callaway, Cole4 hr
Oct 5, 10:18 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLSXLewis, Monroe, Shelby4 hr
Oct 5, 10:18 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLSXAudrain4 hr
Oct 5, 12:43 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLSXMoniteau3 hr
Oct 5, 2:50 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLSXBoone, Callaway3 hr
Oct 5, 5:40 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLSXBoone, Callaway10 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998

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.