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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this flash flood warning at May 12, 2002, 2:16 AM CDT for 4 counties in Illinois; Clark County, Scotland County, Missouri; Lee 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 12, 2002, 2:16 AM CDT (07:16 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2002, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lee County, IA, Hancock County, IL, Henderson County, IL, McDonough County, IL, Warren County, IL, Clark County, MO, Scotland County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 424 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 80 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 556 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 666 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KDVN 120716 FFWMLI IAC111-ILC067-071-109-187-MOC045-199-121500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 205 AM CDT SUN MAY 12 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE QUAD CITIES HAS EXTENDED THE * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CLARK COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI SCOTLAND COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI LEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IOWA HENDERSON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS WARREN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS HANCOCK COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS MCDONOUGH COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 1000 AM CDT * AT 205 AM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED WIDESPREAD FLASH FLOODING IN THE WARNED COUNTIES. MANY SECONDARY ROADS HAVE BEEN REPORTED TO BE WATER COVERED AND MANY WERE CLOSED. SOME COMMUNITIES HAD ALSO REPORTED WATER IN BASEMENTS. * 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. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM CONTINUED HEAVY RAIN WILL ONLY CAUSE ADDITIONAL FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. THIS IS A SERIOUS SITUATION. MANY FLASH FLOOD FATALITIES OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO WATER COVERED ROADWAYS. THE WATER MAY BE TOO DEEP TO CROSS SAFELY OR THE ROAD COULD BE WASHED OUT. ONE VEHICLE RESCUE HAS ALREADY TAKEN PLACE OVERNIGHT IN SOUTHEAST MCDONOUGH COUNTY ILLINOIS. TRAVEL IN THE WARNING AREA...ESPECIALLY IN RURAL AREAS...IS NOT RECOMMENDED THIS MORNING. IF YOU DO TRAVEL...AND ENCOUNTER WATER COVERED ROADWAYS...TURN AROUND. $$ MEYER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 10:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Hancock | 5 hr |
| May 11, 11:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Henderson, Warren | 4 hr |
| May 11, 11:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | McDonough | 6 hr |
| May 11, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Scotland | 46 min |
| May 11, 9:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Clark, Scotland | 5 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Illinois, 2002Flash 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.