Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1999
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this flash flood warning at Apr 14, 1999, 6:51 PM CDT for Reynolds County, Missouri. It was in force for 6 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
- Apr 14, 1999, 6:51 PM CDT (23:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 1999, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Reynolds County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:52 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
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 296 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
- 1658 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 356 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 501 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSTL 142353 FFWSTL MOC179-150600- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 651 PM CDT WED APR 14 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... REYNOLDS COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN MISSOURI * UNTIL 100 AM CDT * MORE SHOWERS WERE MOVING BACK INTO REYNOLDS COUNTY THIS EVENING. HEAVY RAIN FELL ACROSS REYNOLDS COUNTY THIS MORNING...AND MORE HEAVY RAIN WILL AGGRAVATE A SERIOUS SITUATION OVERNIGHT. * THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT REPORTED SEVERAL COUNTY ROADS WERE FLOODED ALONG WITH LOW WATER CROSSINGS. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. IT IS VERY DIFFICUL^T AT NIGHT TO TELL HOW DEEP THE WATER MAY BE. MOTORISTS SHOULD NEVER DRIVE THROUGH WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. TPS
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 14, 1:05 PM CDT, 5 hours 46 minutes before
MOZ042-041-050-010-048-072-062-059-084-018-019-052-085-027-047- 051-034-049-036-035-099-061-075-074-063-064-009-026-060-073-ILZ095- 064-096-098-069-065-058-099-059-100-070-102-060-097-079-101-074- MOZ065-150100- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 105 PM CDT WED APR 14 1999 THIS OUTLOOK COVERS THE COUNTY WARNING AREA OF THE NWS OFFICE IN ST. LOUIS. AREAS INCLUDED ARE PARTS OF CENTRAL...NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI...AND SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS. RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NONE OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE...AND SKYWARN ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. HOWEVER...THERE IS A VERY GOOD CHANCE OF HEAVY RAIN ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL...EAST CENTRAL...AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI....AND ADJACENT AREAS OF SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS...AND A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT. DUE TO THIS THREAT...EMERGENCY MANAGERS ARE URGED TO CAREFULLY MONITOR WATER LEVELS IN FLOOD PRONE LOCATIONS OF THEIR AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY ...AND BE PREPARED TO ACTIVATE FLOOD SAFETY PLANS SHOULD IT BECOME NECESSARY. TRUETT
Special weather statement, Apr 14, 1:05 PM CDT, 5 hours 46 minutes before
MOZ042-041-050-010-048-072-062-059-084-018-019-052-085-027-047- 051-034-049-036-035-099-061-075-074-063-064-009-026-060-073-ILZ095- 064-096-098-069-065-058-099-059-100-070-102-060-097-079-101-074- MOZ065-150100- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 105 PM CDT WED APR 14 1999 THIS OUTLOOK COVERS THE COUNTY WARNING AREA OF THE NWS OFFICE IN ST. LOUIS. AREAS INCLUDED ARE PARTS OF CENTRAL...NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI...AND SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS. RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NONE OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE...AND SKYWARN ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. HOWEVER...THERE IS A VERY GOOD CHANCE OF HEAVY RAIN ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL...EAST CENTRAL...AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI....AND ADJACENT AREAS OF SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS...AND A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT. DUE TO THIS THREAT...EMERGENCY MANAGERS ARE URGED TO CAREFULLY MONITOR WATER LEVELS IN FLOOD PRONE LOCATIONS OF THEIR AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY ...AND BE PREPARED TO ACTIVATE FLOOD SAFETY PLANS SHOULD IT BECOME NECESSARY. TRUETT
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.