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Flash Flood Warning 67, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 24, 2008, 5:55 AM CDT for Saint Charles County, Missouri. It was in force for 6 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 24, 2008, 5:55 AM CDT (10:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2008, 12:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Saint Charles County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 1981 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 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 241104 FFWLSX MOC183-241700- /O.NEW.KLSX.FF.W.0067.080624T1055Z-080624T1700Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 555 AM CDT TUE JUN 24 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CENTRAL ST. CHARLES COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL NOON CDT * AT 549 AM CDT...THE ST CHARLES COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY REPORTED SEVERAL HOLES HAD DEVELOPED IN THE ELM POINT LEVEE AND WATER WAS GRADUALLY INUNDATING A SMALL PORTION OF NORTH CENTRAL ST. CHARLES COUNTY. * THE AREA IMPACTED IS BOUNDED BY INTERSTATE 370 ON THE NORTH...ELM STREET ON THE EAST...ELM POINT ROAD ON THE SOUTH...AND TRUMAN BOULEVARD ON THE WEST. NO MANDATORY EVACUATIONS HAVE BEEN ORDERED YET. PEOPLE WHO ARE VOLUNTARILY EVACUATING MAY SEE SHELTER AT THE FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH AT 801 FIRST CAPITOL STREET IN ST. CHARLES. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. LAT...LON 3887 9064 3887 9044 3878 9049 3881 9063 TIME...MOT...LOC 1055Z 180DEG 0KT 3884 9058 $$ GLASS/CARNEY
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS73 KLSX 241703 FFSLSX FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1158 AM CDT TUE JUN 24 2008 MOC183-241708- /O.EXP.KLSX.FF.W.0067.000000T0000Z-080624T1700Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ ST. CHARLES MO- 1158 AM CDT TUE JUN 24 2008 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT NOON CDT FOR CENTRAL ST. CHARLES COUNTY... WHILE THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS EXPIRED...THE RIVER FLOOD WARNING FOR THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE IN ST. CHARLES COUNTY. WATER CONTINUES TO POUR THROUGH THE ELM POINT LEVEE AND DEEPEN THE FLOOD WATERS OF THE 390 ACRES THAT IT HAD PROTECTED. THE AREA IMPACTED IS BOUNDED BY INTERSTATE 370 ON THE NORTH...ELM STREET ON THE EAST...ELM POINT ROAD ON THE SOUTH...AND TRUMAN BOULEVARD ON THE WEST. NO MANDATORY EVACUATIONS HAVE BEEN ORDERED YET. PEOPLE WHO ARE VOLUNTARILY EVACUATING MAY SEE SHELTER AT THE FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH AT 801 FIRST CAPITOL STREET IN ST. CHARLES. LAT...LON 3887 9064 3887 9044 3878 9049 3881 9063 TIME...MOT...LOC 1658Z 180DEG 0KT 3884 9058 $$ TES
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 9:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone, Callaway, Cole, Moniteau | 42 min |
| Jun 24, 5:25 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LSX | Saint Charles | 24 hr |
| Jun 24, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone | 43 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.