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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 1, 2006, 5:21 PM CDT for Saint Clair County, Illinois. It was in force for 4 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
- Jun 1, 2006, 5:21 PM CDT (22:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2006, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Saint Clair County, IL
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 231 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
- 12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 795 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 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 012222
FFWLSX
ILC163-020215-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
521 PM CDT THU JUN 1 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN ST. CLAIR COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS
* UNTIL 915 PM CDT
* AT 518 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA.
* FLASH FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA...AND WILL BE
AFFECTING SMITHTON...MASCOUTAH AND FREEBURG. THIS FLASH FLOODING
CAN BE EXPECTED ALONG SILVER CREEK.
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 1 1/2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE
WARNED AREA.
FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR
IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER COVERED BRIDGES...
DIPS...OR LOW WATER CROSSINGS. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...
EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER
GROUND.
LAT...LON 3831 9003 3830 8991 3823 8991 3822 8972
3852 8972 3852 9011
$$
CARNEY1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS73 KLSX 020132
FFSLSX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
830 PM CDT THU JUN 1 2006
ILC163-020145-
ST. CLAIR IL-
830 PM CDT THU JUN 1 2006
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SOUTHERN ST. CLAIR COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS HAVE
REPORTED NO PROBLEMS WITH FLOODING OR HIGH WATER. AS A RESULT THE
FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
WHILE NO FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED...CREEKS AND STREAMS MAY STILL
BE RUNNING HIGH AND FAST. THEREFORE...CHILDREN SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED
TO PLAY IN OR NEAR CREEKS AND STREAMS.
LOW WATER CROSSINGS SHOULD STILL BE APPROACHED WITH CAUTION AND
AVOIDED IF COVERED BY ANY WATER AT ALL.
LAT...LON 3831 9003 3830 8991 3823 8991 3822 8972
3852 8972 3852 9011
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 2:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Madison, Saint Clair | 49 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.