Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this flash flood warning at Feb 24, 2007, 1:58 PM CST for Boone County, Callaway County, Missouri. 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 24, 2007, 1:58 PM CST (19:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2007, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Boone County, MO, Callaway County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:58 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 268 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
- 1205 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 552 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 411 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 242001
FFWLSX
MOC019-027-250000-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
158 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
BOONE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI
WESTERN CALLAWAY COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI
* UNTIL 600 PM CST
* AT 154 PM CST...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED FLASH FLOODING
OF SEVERAL ROADS IN THE COLUMBIA AND FULTON AREAS.
* FLASH FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA...AND WILL BE
AFFECTING COLUMBIA...MURRY...HALLSVILLE AND FULTON.
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF QUARTER TO HALF AN INCH ARE POSSIBLE
IN THE WARNED AREA OVER THE NEXT HOUR.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE
BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
LAT...LON 3886 9247 3868 9227 3865 9196 3905 9189
3906 9214 3921 9214 3922 9240
$$
BYRD2 follow-up statements
000
WGUS73 KLSX 242130
FFSLSX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
326 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2007
MOC019-027-250000-
CALLAWAY MO-BOONE MO-
326 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2007
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CST FOR BOONE
AND WESTERN CALLAWAY COUNTIES...
AS OF 325 PM CST...THE RAIN HAS DIMINISHED SOMEWHAT. HOWEVER...
RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS MOVING NORTH OVER
BOONE AND CALLAWAY COUNTIES. SO ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO
A QUARTER OF AN INCH ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA OVER THE NEXT
HOUR.
LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
COLUMBIA...MURRY...HALLSVILLE AND FULTON.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE
BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.
LAT...LON 3886 9247 3868 9227 3865 9196 3905 9189
3906 9214 3921 9214 3922 9240
$$
BYRD000
WGUS73 KLSX 242353
FFSLSX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
550 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2007
MOC019-027-250000-
CALLAWAY MO-BOONE MO-
550 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2007
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR EXCESSIVE RAIN WILL EXPIRE AT 600 PM
CST FOR BOONE AND WESTERN CALLAWAY COUNTIES...
THE RAIN HAS DIMINISHED OVER THE AREA EARLY THIS EVENING. SHERIFF
DEPARTMENTS IN BOTH COUNTIES REPORT THAT THE FLOODING IS
SUBSIDING...SO WILL LET FLASH FLOOD WARNING EXPIRE AT 6 PM.
LAT...LON 3886 9247 3868 9227 3865 9196 3905 9189
3906 9214 3921 9214 3922 9240
$$
BYRDThe office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 4:22 AM CST | Flood Watch | LSX | Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Knox, Lewis, Lincoln and 10 more | 15 hr |
| Feb 24, 2:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Charles, Warren | 22 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.