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Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS St. Louis, MO
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 14, 8:15 AM CST | FLASH FLOOD | Lesterville, MO | CIRCLE 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 14, 6:27 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Reynolds | 2 hr |
| Dec 14, 8:39 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Reynolds | 6 hr |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.