Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 7, 2000, 10:06 PM CDT for Boone County, Callaway County, Moniteau County, Missouri. It was in force for 5 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
- Aug 7, 2000, 10:06 PM CDT (03:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2000, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Boone County, MO, Callaway County, MO, Moniteau County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:06 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 252 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
- 2405 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1671 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KLSX 080314 FFWLSX MOC019-027-135-080800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1006 PM CDT MON AUG 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BOONE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI CALLAWAY COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI NORTHERN MONITEAU COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 300 AM CDT * AT 1006 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN IN BOONEVILLE AND 30 MILES WEST OF BOONEVILLE NORTH OF INTERSTATE 70. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH. COMMUNITIES ALONG A LINE FROM CALIFORNIA MISSOURI TO FULTON HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED TWO TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN FROM EARLIER STORMS. ANOTHER 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE BETWEEN NOW AND 2 00 AM. * FLASH FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA...AND WILL BE AFFECTING THE COMMUNITIES OF CALIFORNIA...ASHLAND...FULTON AND PERHAPS COLUMBIA AND OTHER COMMUNITIES IN THAT AREA. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR IMMINENT...MOVE QUICKLY TO HIGHER GROUND. NEVER DRIVE INTO AN AREA WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. ACT QUICKLY IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. PEDIGO
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Warren | 57 min |
| Aug 7, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Charles | 57 min |
| Aug 7, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Callaway, Cole | 51 min |
| Aug 7, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain | 51 min |
| Aug 7, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 52 min |
| Aug 7, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Gasconade, Montgomery, Osage | 61 min |
| Aug 7, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Warren | 44 min |
| Aug 7, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin | 61 min |
| Aug 7, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln, Saint Charles | 44 min |
| Aug 7, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 47 min |
| Aug 7, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone | 47 min |
| Aug 7, 10:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Callaway | 50 min |
| Aug 7, 11:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Moniteau | 44 min |
| Aug 7, 11:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Osage | 51 min |
| Aug 7, 11:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Gasconade, Montgomery | 38 min |
| Aug 8, 1:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone | 38 min |
| Aug 8, 1:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Boone, Callaway, Moniteau | 5 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.