Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 12, 2002, 8:17 PM CDT for Clark County, Scotland County, Missouri; Lee County, Van Buren County, Iowa. It was in force for 8 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 2002, 8:17 PM CDT (01:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2002, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Lee County, IA, Van Buren County, IA, Clark County, MO, Scotland County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 1544 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 921 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KDVN 130117 FFWMLI IAC111-177-MOC045-199-130900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 812 PM CDT WED JUN 12 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE QUAD CITIES HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CLARK COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI SCOTLAND COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI VAN BUREN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IOWA LEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IOWA * UNTIL 4 AM CDT * AT 812 PM CDT...A TRAINED SPOTTER IN FARMINGTON REPORTED 2 INCHES OF RAIN IN A HALF HOUR. WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN OVER THE PAST FEW HOURS ACROSS SOUTHERN VAN BUREN...SOUTHERN LEE...NORTHERN SCOTLAND...AND NORTHERN CLARK COUNTIES. RAINS WILL END FROM THE WEST...BUT WILL BEGIN AGAIN LATE THIS EVENING...WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR MORE HEAVY RAINFALL IN THUNDERSTORMS OVERNIGHT. * THE GROUND HAS ALREADY BEEN SATURATED BY RECENT RAINFALL... ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN HAS RESULTED IN EXCESSIVE RUNOFF...LEADING THE LIKELIHOOD OF FLASH FLOODING IN THE WARNED AREA. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED... QUICKLY MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. LAT...LON 4070 9150 4035 9157 4037 9204 4083 9202 REA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 2:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Scotland | 36 min |
| Jun 13, 3:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Clark, Scotland | 4 hr |
| Jun 12, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Washington | 22 min |
| Jun 12, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Lee | 28 min |
| Jun 12, 10:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Des Moines | 5 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2002Flash Flood Warnings in Iowa, 2002Every flash flood warning in 2002
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.