Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 9, 2003, 8:08 PM CDT for Scotland County, Missouri. It was in force for 6 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
- Jul 9, 2003, 8:08 PM CDT (01:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2003, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Scotland County, MO
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 180 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 1258 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 757 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 5.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KDVN 100112 FFWDVN MOC199-100700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 808 PM CDT WED JUL 9 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE QUAD CITIES HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SCOTLAND COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI * UNTIL 200 AM CDT * AT 808 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED OVER THE WARNED AREA. * THUNDERSTORMS WERE CONTINUOUSLY REDEVELOPING AND MOVING OVER PORTIONS OF THE WARNED AREA...LEADING TO VERY HIGH RAINFALL RATES AND THE LIKELIHOOD OF FLASH FLOODING IN THE WARNED AREA. FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED IN LOW LYING AREAS AS WELL AS NEAR THE NORTH FABIUS RIVER AND NEAR THE LITTLE FOX RIVER IN CENTRAL AND NORTHERN SCOTLAND COUNTY. 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. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. LAT...LON 4061 9198 4032 9198 4032 9233 4058 9235 $$ ERVIN
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS73 KDVN 100516 FFSDVN MOC199-100700- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 1214 AM CDT THU JUL 10 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 200 AM CDT FOR SCOTLAND COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI... AT 1214 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAINFALL HAS ENDED ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...BUT FLASH FLOODING CONTINUES TO OCCUR. THE ARE MOST AT RISK OF SEEING FLASH FLOOD CONDITIONS IS ACROSS NORTHEASTERN SCOTLAND COUNTY...WHERE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES THAT UP TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN THIS PAST EVENING. RUNOFF WILL CONTINUE FROM THIS RAIN THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. REPORT FLASH FLOODING TO YOUR NEAREST LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY... FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE QUAD CITIES. $$ ERVIN
000 WGUS73 KDVN 100655 FFSDVN MOC199-100715- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 155 AM CDT THU JUL 10 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 AM CDT FOR...SCOTLAND COUNTY IN EXTREME NORTHEAST MISSOURI HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... THE HEAVY RAINFALL HAS SUBSIDED OVER THE WARNED AREA. STREAMS AND CREEKS HAVE RECEDED OR WERE BEGINNING TO RECEDE...ENDING THE FLOOD THREAT. EVEN THOUGH STREAMS AND CREEKS WERE RECEDING...SOME ROADWAYS MAY STILL BE COVERED WITH WATER. MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO AVOID DRIVING THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. $$ NICHOLS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 7:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Clark | 6 hr |
| Jul 9, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Clark, Scotland | 64 min |
| Jul 9, 9:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Clark | 42 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2003Every flash flood warning in 2003
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.