Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 6, 2002, 9:25 AM CDT for Adams County, Pike County, Illinois; 6 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 4 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 6, 2002, 9:25 AM CDT (14:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2002, 1:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Adams County, IL, Pike County, IL, Lewis County, MO, Marion County, MO, Monroe County, MO, Pike County, MO, Ralls County, MO, Shelby County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:25 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
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 229 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
- 1406 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KLSX 061425 FFWSTL ILC001-149-MOC111-127-137-163-173-205-061815- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 921 AM CDT MON MAY 6 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... LEWIS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI MARION COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI MONROE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI PIKE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI RALLS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI SHELBY COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI ADAMS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS PIKE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 115 PM CDT * THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN OVER PARTS OF NORTHEAST MISSOURI AND WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS SINCE THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. RAINFALL ESTIMATES FROM RADAR INDICATE THAT 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN FROM PARIS MISSOURI TO NEAR BOWLING GREEN MISSOURI AND PITTSFIELD ILLINOIS. SEVERAL COUNTY ROADS HAVE BEEN CLOSED BY FLOOD WATERS IN LEWIS COUNTY...IN THE MONTICELLO AND LA BELLE AREAS. * FLASH FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA. JUST A FEW OF THE CITIES THAT WILL BE THREATENED BY FLOODING INCLUDE PARIS...HANNIBAL...BOWLING GREEN...AND PITTSFIELD. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR IMMINENT...MOVE QUICKLY TO HIGHER GROUND. NEVER DRIVE INTO AN AREA WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. THOSE CAMPING NEAR SMALL STREAMS SHOULD MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND AT ONCE. WATER LEVELS MAY RISE RAPIDLY WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING...EVEN IF THE HEAVY RAINS ARE WELL UPSTREAM OF YOUR CAMPSITE. TRUETT
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 7:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | 45 min | |
| May 6, 8:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | 32 min | |
| May 6, 8:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | 42 min | |
| May 6, 9:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | 35 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2002Flash Flood Warnings in Illinois, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.