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Areal Flood Warning 19, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this areal flood warning at Jun 25, 2008, 5:59 PM CDT for Saint Charles County, Missouri. It was in force for 4 days. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 2008, 5:59 PM CDT (22:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2008, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 days
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Saint Charles County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:04 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 316 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
- 28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 509 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS St. Louis, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this areal flood warning went out at Jun 25, 2:41 PM CDT, 3 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 2:41 PM CDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 25, 3:22 PM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 322 PM CDT WED JUN 25 2008 ILZ058>060-064-065-069-070-074-079-095>102-MOZ018-019-026-027- 034>036-041-042-047>052-059>065-072>075-084-085-099-261200- GREENE IL-MACOUPIN IL-MONTGOMERY IL-BOND IL-FAYETTE IL-CLINTON IL- MARION IL-WASHINGTON IL-RANDOLPH IL-ADAMS IL-BROWN IL-PIKE IL- CALHOUN IL-JERSEY IL-MADISON IL-ST. CLAIR IL-MONROE IL-KNOX-LEWIS- SHELBY-MARION-MONROE-RALLS-PIKE-BOONE-AUDRAIN-MONITEAU-COLE-OSAGE- CALLAWAY-MONTGOMERY-LINCOLN-GASCONADE-WARREN-ST. CHARLES-FRANKLIN- ST. LOUIS-ST. LOUIS CITY-JEFFERSON-CRAWFORD-WASHINGTON- ST. FRANCOIS-STE. GENEVIEVE-IRON-MADISON-REYNOLDS- 322 PM CDT WED JUN 25 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN AND CENTRAL MISSOURI AS WELL AS WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING. OTHERWISE... THUNDERSTORMS MAY ONCE AGAIN DEVELOP OVERNIGHT AND AFFECT NORTHERN MISSOURI AND WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLASH FLOODING WILL ONCE AGAIN BE POSSIBLE IF THIS HAPPENS. MODERATE TO MAJOR RIVER FLOODING IS OCCURRING ALONG PARTS OF THE MISSISSIPPI AND ILLINOIS RIVERS. SEE THE APPROPRIATE FLOOD STATEMENT FOR SPECIFIC DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA THROUGH FRIDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY AS A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE AND HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL. MODERATE TO MAJOR RIVER FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ALONG PARTS OF THE MISSISSIPPI AND ILLINOIS RIVERS. SEE THE APPROPRIATE FLOOD STATEMENT FOR SPECIFIC DETAILS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ASKED TO RELAY RAINFALL AMOUNTS OVER AN INCH TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST. LOUIS. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE)... HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/LSX/?N=HWO1 CVKING
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 25, 12:56 PM CDT, 5 hours 3 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone | 37 min |
| Jun 24, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain, Boone, Monroe | 46 min |
| Jun 24, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain, Boone, Callaway | 39 min |
| Jun 24, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lewis, Marion, Shelby | 43 min |
| Jun 24, 8:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Audrain | 36 min |
| Jun 25, 2:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Knox, Lewis, Marion, Shelby | 12 hr |
Nearby
Areal Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2008Every areal flood warning in 2008
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.