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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS St. Louis, MO

June 29, 1998Clark County, Scotland County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 29, 1998, 4:11 PM CDT for Clark County, Scotland 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
Jun 29, 1998, 4:11 PM CDT (21:11 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 1998, 7:10 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Whole counties

Counties Clark County, MO, Scotland County, MO

The radar

The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 174 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:12 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 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 179 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, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 1998-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 917 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, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 1998-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 87 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
917 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-115 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
762 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.5

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSTL 292112
FFWSTL
MOC045-199-300010-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CLARK COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN MISSOURI
  SCOTLAND COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN MISSOURI

* UNTIL 710 PM CDT

* FOR MEMPHIS AND KAHOKA IN FAR NORTHEAST MISSOURI

* A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH SCOTLAND
  AND CLARK COUNTIES PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING. PEOPLE IN FLOOD
  PRONE AREAS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE
  INTO RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER.

  MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. NEVER ATTEMPT TO
  CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS..p.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.

  RP

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 7:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMonroe45 min
Jun 28, 11:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXKnox, Scotland45 min
Jun 29, 12:05 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLSXLewis4 hr
Jun 29, 5:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXLincoln, Saint Charles, Warren48 min
Jun 29, 5:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXSaint Louis, City of Saint Louis46 min
Jun 29, 3:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXClark48 min
Jun 29, 3:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXScotland47 min
Jun 29, 4:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXClark, Knox, Lewis, Scotland65 min
Jun 29, 4:51 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLSXLewis3 hr
Jun 29, 6:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXClark51 min

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.