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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 24, 2000, 2:56 AM CDT for Franklin County, Montgomery County, Warren 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 24, 2000, 2:56 AM CDT (07:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2000, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Franklin County, MO, Montgomery County, MO, Warren County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:55 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 302 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
- 1300 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1492 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KLSX 240759 FFWLSX MOC071-139-219-241100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 256 AM CDT SAT JUN 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHERN FRANKLIN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI WARREN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 600 AM CDT * AT 256 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN IN AND AROUND THE CITIES OF BIG SPRING...TRELOAR...NEW HAVEN...WASHINGTON...UNION...WARRENTON...AND MARTHASVILLE 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. VA/JC
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 44 min |
| Jun 23, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln, Pike | 40 min |
| Jun 24, 1:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Lincoln, Saint Charles, Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 4 hr |
| Jun 24, 5:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Lincoln, Saint Charles, Saint Louis, Warren, City of Saint Louis | 4 hr |
| Jun 24, 9:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Lincoln, Montgomery, Saint Charles, Saint Louis, Warren, City of Saint Louis | 4 hr |
| Jun 24, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jefferson, Saint Louis | 52 min |
| Jun 24, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | City of Saint Louis | 52 min |
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.