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Flash Flood Watch 17, NWS St. Louis, MO

July 27, 20088 counties in Missouri; Adams County, Brown County, Pike County, Illinois

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this flash flood watch at Jul 27, 2008, 3:45 PM CDT for 8 counties in Missouri; Adams County, Brown County, Pike County, Illinois. It took effect at Jul 27, 2008, 7:01 PM CDT. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 27, 2008, 3:45 PM CDT (20:45 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 27, 2008, 7:01 PM CDT
Expired
Jul 28, 2008, 10:00 AM CDT
In force
15 hr
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Flood severity
None

Counties Adams County, IL, Brown County, IL, Pike County, IL, Audrain County, MO, Knox County, MO, Lewis County, MO, Marion County, MO, Monroe County, MO, Pike County, MO, Ralls County, MO, Shelby County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 228 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 2008-07-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 2008-07-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -26 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1405 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
155 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 flash flood watch went out at Jul 27, 12:26 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 27, 12:26 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 26, 8:05 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningLSXMonroe, Shelby12 hr
Jul 26, 8:15 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningLSXLincoln, Montgomery11 hr
Jul 26, 10:25 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningLSXLincoln13 hr
Jul 27, 7:50 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningLSXMonroe, Shelby14 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Watches in Missouri, 2008Flash Flood Watches in Illinois, 2008Every flash flood watch 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.