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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this flash flood warning at Mar 22, 2007, 8:55 AM CDT for Randolph County, Illinois. It was in force for 5 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
- Mar 22, 2007, 8:55 AM CDT (13:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 2007, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Randolph County, IL
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:57 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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 256 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
- 42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 971 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS53 KLSX 221356
FFWLSX
ILC157-221900-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
855 AM CDT THU MAR 22 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN RANDOLPH COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS
* UNTIL 200 PM CDT
* AT 852 AM 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 STEELEVILLE...PERCY...CHESTER...SHILOH HILL...AND BREMEN.
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 3790 8983 3787 8990 3788 8994 3791 8997
3798 9006 3806 9007 3805 8961 3794 8961
3781 8969
$$
CARNEY2 follow-up statements
000
WGUS73 KLSX 221531
FFSLSX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
1023 AM CDT THU MAR 22 2007
ILC157-221900-
RANDOLPH IL-
1023 AM CDT THU MAR 22 2007
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM CDT FOR
SOUTHERN RANDOLPH COUNTY...
AT 1021 AM CDT...THERE HAS BEEN NO REPORTS FROM THE RANDOLPH COUNTY
SHERIFF OF FLOODING ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF RANDOLPH COUNTY.
HOWEVER THE WSR-88D DOPPLER RADAR FROM ST. LOUIS CONTINUES TO
RAINSHOWERS WITH A FEW EMBEDDED THUNDRSTORMS FROM STE. GENEVIEVE
THROUGH WASHINGTON COUNTIES IN MISSOURI MOVING EAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH.
THIS AREA OF RAINFALL IS EXPECTED TO REACH MUCH OF RANDOLPH COUNTY
BY 10:45 AM CDT.
LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
STEELEVILLE...PERCY AND BREMEN.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE
BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
LAT...LON 3790 8983 3787 8990 3788 8994 3791 8997
3798 9006 3806 9007 3805 8961 3794 8961
3781 8969
$$
PRZYBYLINSKI000
WGUS73 KLSX 221746
FFSLSX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
1238 PM CDT THU MAR 22 2007
ILC157-221900-
RANDOLPH IL-
1238 PM CDT THU MAR 22 2007
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM CDT FOR
SOUTHERN RANDOLPH COUNTY...
AT 1238 PM CDT...THERE HAS BEEN NO REPORTS OF FLASH FLOODING OVER
THE SOUTHERN HALF OF RANDLOPH COUNTY. HOWEVER WIDELY SCATTERED
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER PARTS OF ST.
FRANCOIS...STE GENEVIEVE COUNTIES. IF THESE STORMS HOLD TOGETHER
THEY WILL BE MOVING ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHERN RANDOLPH COUNTY BETWEEN
1:15 AND 1:45 PM CDT.
LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
STEELEVILLE...PERCY AND BREMEN.
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.
REPORT FLOODING TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT FOR RELAY TO THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
LAT...LON 3790 8983 3787 8990 3788 8994 3791 8997
3798 9006 3806 9007 3805 8961 3794 8961
3781 8969
$$
PRZYBYLINSKIThe office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 3:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Adams, Brown | 26 min |
| Mar 22, 4:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Macoupin | 27 min |
| Mar 22, 4:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Montgomery | 32 min |
| Mar 22, 5:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe, Saint Clair | 25 min |
| Mar 22, 10:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | LSX | Calhoun, Jersey, Madison, Monroe, Randolph, Saint Clair | 3 hr |
| Mar 22, 3:39 PM CDT | Flood Watch | LSX | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette and 11 more | 20 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.