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Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS St. Louis, MO

December 14, 2005Reynolds County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this flash flood warning at Dec 14, 2005, 6:52 AM CST for Reynolds County, Missouri. It was in force for 113 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Dec 14, 2005, 6:52 AM CST (12:52 UTC)
Expired
Dec 14, 2005, 8:45 AM CST
In force
113 min
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Reynolds County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:53 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Dec 14, 8:15 AM CSTFLASH FLOODLesterville, MOCIRCLE DRIVE IN NORTHERN LESTERVILLE IS BEGINNING TO FLOOD. PORTIONS OF LESTERVILLE ARE BEING EVACUATED.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 259 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2005-12-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2005-12-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 299 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
488 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
299 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
324 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS53 KLSX 141300
FFWLSX
MOC179-141445-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
652 AM CST WED DEC 14 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN REYNOLDS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 845 AM CST

* AT 647 AM CST THE UPPER TAUM SAUK LAKE DAM HAS FAILED THE 
FAILURE OCCURRED AT ABOUT 530 AM. OFFICIALS REPORT AT LEAST
ONE HOME HAS WASHED AWAY AND A TRACTOR TRAILER WAS WASHED AWAY
OFF OF HIGHWAY N.

AT 650 AM OFFICIALS REPORT CARS HAVE BEEN SWEPT OFF THE ROAD AND 
OTHER CARS ARE TRAPPED  THIS FLASH FLOOD FLOW WILL TRAVEL 
QUICKLY SOUTH ALONG THE BLACK RIVER. RESIDENTS NEAR LESTERVILLE...
AND SOUTH TO WHERE THE BLACK RIVER CROSSES HIGHWAY K WEST OF
ANNAPOLIS WILL BE VULNERABLE. 

THE CREST SHOULD BE NEAR OR JUST SOUTH OF LESTERVILLE AND WILL
MOVE SOUTH ALONG THE BLACK RIVER AT AROUND 3 MPH. THE RUSH OF
WATER WILL REACH HIGHWAY K WEST OF ANNAPOLIS BY 900 AM THIS
MORNING WITH MAJOR FLOODING.  THE RIVER WILL REACH A LEVEL OF
20 FEET AT HIGHWAY K.  THE FLOOD STAGE IS 8 FEET AND THE 
RECORD OF CREST IS 27 FEET.

MOVE TO HIGH GROUND IMMEDIATELY

THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION   .

THIS IS A LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. PERSONS LIVING DOWNSTREAM FROM
THE DAM SHOULD MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW FLOODING WILL OCCUR
RAPIDLY.

LAT...LON 3759 9111 3728 9108 3733 9078 3760 9078

$$

PEDIGO

The office that day

Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 14, 6:27 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLSXReynolds2 hr
Dec 14, 8:39 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLSXReynolds6 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2005Every flash flood warning in 2005

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.