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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS St. Louis, MO

June 29, 1998Brown County, Illinois

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 29, 1998, 12:05 AM CDT for Brown County, Illinois. 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
Jun 29, 1998, 12:05 AM CDT (05:05 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 1998, 4:00 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Brown County, IL

The radar

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:06 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

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 184 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, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 1998-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3145 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 1998-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 11 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
3145 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1452 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
6.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSTL 290506
FFWSTL
ILC001-009-MOC111-290905-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
1205 AM CDT MON JUN 29 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  ADAMS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
  BROWN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
  LEWIS COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN MISSOURI

* UNTIL 400 AM CDT

* AT 12 MIDNIGHT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL
  OF 4 TO 6 INCHES HAS FALLEN ACROSS PARTS OF LEWIS...ADAMS AND
  BROWN COUNTIES. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING EAST
  ACROSS THE AREA THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS.

* FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED...PRIMARILY ACROSS NORTHEAST ADAMS
  COUNTY. WATER HAS BEEN REPORTED FLOWING ACROSS HIGHWAYS 24 AND
  94 IN THE GOLDEN AND CLAYTON AREAS.

  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.

  JPK


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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 7:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXPike34 min
Jun 28, 8:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXAdams36 min
Jun 29, 12:05 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLSXAdams4 hr
Jun 29, 4:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXAdams, Brown65 min
Jun 29, 4:51 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLSXAdams, Brown3 hr
Jun 29, 5:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXPike61 min
Jun 29, 5:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXGreene, Macoupin, Montgomery63 min
Jun 29, 6:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXJersey46 min
Jun 29, 6:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXBond, Fayette61 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Illinois, 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.