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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this flash flood warning at Nov 15, 2005, 6:51 AM CST for Iron County, Madison County, Reynolds County, Missouri. It was in force for 3 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
- Nov 15, 2005, 6:51 AM CST (12:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 15, 2005, 9:45 AM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Iron County, MO, Madison County, MO, Reynolds County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 261 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
- 104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -144 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 592 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 239 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 285 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS53 KLSX 151256
FFWLSX
MOC093-123-179-151545-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
651 AM CST TUE NOV 15 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
IRON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI
MADISON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI
REYNOLDS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI
* UNTIL 945 AM CST
* AT 526 AM CST...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED FLASH
FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA.
* FLASH FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA...AND WILL BE
AFFECTING GARWOOD...VULCAN...ANNAPOLIS...ELLINGTON...
SACO...BUCKHORN...AND MARQUAND
PUBLIC OFFICIALS REPORT NUMEROUS HIGHWAYS AND COUNTY ROADS ACROSS
THE WARNED AREA IMPASSABLE DUE TO FLOOD WATERS FROM THE 3 TO 6
INCHES OF RAINFALL THAT OCCURRED OVERNIGHT.
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE
WARNED AREA THIS MORNING.
LAT...LON 3710 9101 3721 9113 3725 9112 3726 9116
3749 9122 3750 9131 3759 9131 3760 9116
3773 9114 3773 9065 3764 9065 3764 9016
3732 9016 3728 9073 3705 9079 3705 9092
$$
CVKINGThe office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 15, 1:15 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Iron, Madison, Reynolds | 6 hr |
| Nov 15, 3:48 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LSX | Reynolds | 20 min |
| Nov 15, 4:15 AM CST | Freeze Warning | LSX | Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Crawford, Franklin and 14 more | 28 hr |
| Nov 15, 11:49 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LSX | Iron, Washington | 41 min |
| Nov 15, 12:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LSX | Sainte Genevieve | 28 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.