Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 1, 2004, 2:23 AM CDT for Crawford 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
- May 1, 2004, 2:23 AM CDT (07:23 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 2004, 8:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Crawford County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 255 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
- 954 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1102 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KLSX 010729 FFWLSX MOC055-011330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 223 AM CDT SAT MAY 1 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CRAWFORD COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 830 AM CDT * AT 223 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN IN THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF CRAWFORD COUNTY NEAR HIGHWAYS 19 AND 49. * FLASH FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA...AND WILL BE AFFECTING THE COMMUNITIES OF CHERRYVILLE COOK STATION AND DILLARD AS WELL AS CROOKED CREEK...YANKEE CREEK...DRY CREEK...AND OTHER SMALLER STREAMS AND TRIBUTARIES. LOW WATER BRIDGES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY WILL BECOME IMPASSABLE RAPIDLY TONIGHT DO NOT TRY TO DRIVE THROUGH THEM. 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. LAT...LON 3819 9111 3770 9115 3779 9150 3820 9153 $$ PEDIGO
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS73 KLSX 011048 FFSLSX MOC055-011330- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 545 AM CDT SAT MAY 1 2004 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CRAWFORD COUNTY UNTIL 830 AM CDT... AT 530 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS SHOWING MOST OF THE HEAVY RAIN MOVING OFF TO THE EAST OF CRAWFORD COUNTY. THERE WERE MORE LIGHT RAIN SHOWERS MOVING INTO THE AREA. RADAR PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES SHOWED THAT UP TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN FELL BETWEEN DILLARD AND CHERRYVILLE. THE REMAINDER OF SOUTHERN CRAWFORD COUNTY RECEIVED 1 TO 2 INCHES. THE COMMUNITIES OF COOK STATION...CHERRYVILLE...DAVISVILLE AND DILLARD WOULD HAVE RECIEVED THE MOST RAIN. AREAS AROUND CROOKED CREEK...YANKEE CREEK...DRY CREEK...AND THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF HUZZAH CREEK AND COURTOIS CREEK WOULD BE MOST IMPACTED. EVEN IF THERE IS NO FLOODING OCCURING AT THIS TIME...IT IS STILL POSSIBLE THAT THE EXCESS RUNOFF IS STILL MAKING ITS WAY DOWNSTREAM AND COULD STILL CAUSE SIGNIFICANT FLASH FLOODING AS IT PASSES. LOW WATER CROSSINGS MAY BE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS THIS MORNING. IF YOU DO APPROACH A LOW WATER CROSSING THAT CONTAINS FAST FLOWING WATER...TURN AROUND AND FIND ANOTHER ROUTE TO YOUR DESTINATION. OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS MANY OF THE FLOODING DEATHS IN SOUTHERN MISOURI HAVE BEEN DUE TO MOTORISTS ATTEMPTING TO DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED LOW WATER CROSSINGS. DO NOT BECOME A STATISTIC BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. $$ CARNEY
000 WGUS73 KLSX 011250 FFSLSX MOC055-011315- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 750 AM CDT SAT MAY 1 2004 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CRAWFORD COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PRODUCED THE HEAVY RAIN HAVE MOVED EAST OF THE AREA. THERE WILL BE ADDITIONAL RAIN TODAY...BUT IT WILL ONLY BE LIGHT SHOWERS...AND ADDITIONAL RAINFALL ACCUMULATIONS WILL AMOUNT TO LESS THAN 0.10 INCH. DRIVERS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AT LOW WATER CROSSINGS THIS MORNING AS THE RUNOFF FROM LAST NIGHTS STORM MAY STILL BE CAUSING SOME HIGH WATER. NEVER DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD TO AN UNKNOWN DEPTH. MOST WATER RELATED FATALITIES OCCUR WHEN PEOPLE DRIVE THEIR CARS ACROSS WATER COVERED ROADS AND ARE SWEPT AWAY. DO NOT BECOME A STATISTIC $$ CARNEY
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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.