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Flash Flood Warning 55, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this flash flood warning at Oct 5, 1998, 7:43 PM CDT for Cole County, Moniteau County, Missouri. It was in force for 8 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, 7:43 PM CDT (00:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 6, 1998, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 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 00:42 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 00:00Z, 0.7 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 608 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 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 060046 FFWSTL MOC051-135-139-060900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 743 PM CDT MON OCT 5 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * FLOOD WARNING FOR... COLE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI MONITEAU COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI MONTGOMERY COUNTY MISSOURI IN EASTERN MISSOURI * UNTIL 400 AM CDT * AT 730 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS PRODUCING UP TO AN INCH OF ADDITIONAL RAINFALL. THIS WILL LIKELY AGGREVATE EXISTING FLOOD PROBLEMS AND COULD RESULT IN ADDITIONAL FLOODING. * IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED HIGHWAY CC WAS UNDERWATER WITH HIGHWAYS J AND K BECOMING FLOODED. IN COLE COUNTY LAW ENFORECEMENT REPORTED ROCK HOUSE ROAD JUST WEST OF RUSSELLVILLE WAS FLOODED. IN MONITEAU COUNTY LAW ENFORECEMENT REPORTED HIGHWAY 87 SOUTH OF CALIFORNIA WAS UNDER WATER. IT IS QUITE LIKELY THERE ARE ADDITIONAL SECONDARY AND LESSER TRAVELED ROADS THAT ARE FLOODED BUT HAVE NOT BEEN REPORTED AT THIS TIME. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. NEVER ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW-WATER CROSSINGS IF WATER COVERS THE ROAD. DO NOT DRIVE AROUND BARRICADES. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND. RAPIDLY RISING WATER MAY SWEEP THE VEHICLE AND ITS OCCUPANTS AWAY. LEWIS BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. IT IS VERY DIFFICULT AT NIGHT TO TELL HOW DEEP THE WATER MAY BE. MOTORISTS SHOULD NEVER DRIVE THROUGH WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 5, 7:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Montgomery | 8 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.