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Areal Flood Warning 76, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this areal flood warning at Oct 23, 2009, 5:06 AM CDT for Saint Louis County, Missouri. 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
- Oct 23, 2009, 5:06 AM CDT (10:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 23, 2009, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Saint Louis County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 353 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
- 570 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 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 Oct 23, 4:15 AM CDT, 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 23, 4:15 AM CDT, 51 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 415 AM CDT FRI OCT 23 2009 .DISCUSSION... /402 AM CDT FRI OCT 23 2009/ THE UPPER LOW WAS ON THE MOVE THIS MORNING AND WAS LOCATED NEAR OMAHA AT 08Z...WITH THE ATTENDANT COLD FRONT AND A SERIES OF SFC LOWS INVOF OF THE MS RIVER. THE MAIN SHIELD OF RAIN HAS PUSHED OUT OF THE CWA AS THE DRY SLOT HAS PROGRESSED ACROSS THE AREA... LEAVING JUST SOME PATCHY LIGHT RAIN AND DRIZZLE IN ITS WAKE. THE SFC LOWS WILL CONSOLIDATE AND DEEPEN THIS MORNING...LIFTING NEWD TO THE LAKE MICHIGAN VCNTY BY EARLY EVENING IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE LIFTING UPPER LOW. WITH CAA...GUSTY NW WINDS AND SOLID LOW CLOUDS...EXPECT NEARLY STEADY OR A SLIGHT FALL IN TEMPERATURES TODAY. PATCHY LIGHT RAIN AND DRIZZLE SHOULD BE IT AS FAR AS PCPN GOES. A SECOND SHORTWAVE IS FCST TO DIG ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT BRINGING A NEW SLUG OF MID LEVEL MOISTURE AND SOME WEAK LRG SCALE ASCENT. THIS WILL AT LEAST MAINTAIN THE THREAT OF DRIZZLE TONIGHT ALONG WITH SEEDING THE LOW LEVELS TO BRING A CHANCE OF SOME MEASURABLE LIGHT RAIN TO AREAS ALONG AND NORTH OF I-70. EXPECTING CLOUDS TO CLEAR BY MIDDAY ON SATURDAY WITH WAA COMMENCING BY AFTERNOON AND SOME DECENT TEMP RECOVERY...BUT HIGHS REMAINING BELOW AVERAGE. A NEW TROF WILL DIG INTO THE CENTRAL U.S LATE SAT NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY WITH AN ATTENDANT COLD FRONT PROGRESSING THRU THE CWA SUN NGT INTO EARLY MON. A PRONOUNCED WAA REGIME IN ADVANCE OF THE COLD FRONT COMBINED WITH DECENT MOISTURE AND LARGE SCALE LIFT WILL SUPPORT A GOOD CHANCE OF RAIN SUN INTO SUNDAY NIGHT. THE LATEST GFS...ECMWF...AND CMC GEM ALL SUPPORT THIS SCENARIO I HAVE BUMPED UP POPS. IF THE 12Z RUNS CONTINUE THIS TREND...THEN AT LEAST LIKELY POPS WILL BE IN ORDER. GLASS && .AVIATION... /1213 AM CDT FRI OCT 23 2009/ FOR THE 06Z TAFS...DOUBLE BARRELED SFC LOW PRES SYS CONTINUES LIFTING NE WITH -RA ENDING FM W TO E ALTHOUGH LIFR/IFR CIGS AND -DZ WILL LINGER UNTIL UPPER LVL LOW MOVES OUT OF THE AREA. EXPECTING LIFR/IFR CIGS TO LIFT TO MVFR BY FRI AFTN AND THESE CIGS WILL PERSIST THROUGH THE END OF THE 24HR TAF PD. AT 05Z...CDFNT HAS MOVED THROUGH COU AND WILL CONTINUE MOVING EWD WITH WINDS SHIFTING TO WLY AFTER FROPA. KANOFSKY && .LSX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MO...NONE. IL...NONE. && WFO LSX
Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 23, 4:35 AM CDT, 31 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 435 AM CDT FRI OCT 23 2009 ILZ058>060-064-065-069-070-074-079-095>102-MOZ018-019-026-027- 034>036-041-042-047>052-059>065-072>075-084-085-099-241100- 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- 435 AM CDT FRI OCT 23 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN AND CENTRAL MISSOURI AS WELL AS WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE)... HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/LSX/?N=HWO1 GLASS
In the hours before
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PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
1154 PM CDT THU OCT 22 2009
..TIME.. ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE.. ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1153 PM HEAVY RAIN SHREWSBURY 38.59N 90.33W
10/22/2009 E2.10 INCH ST. LOUIS MO TRAINED SPOTTER
RAINFALL SO FAR.
&&
EVENT NUMBER LSX0900275
TESLocal storm report, Oct 23, 3:19 AM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
319 AM CDT FRI OCT 23 2009
..TIME.. ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE.. ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0316 AM FLASH FLOOD CLAYTON 38.64N 90.33W
10/23/2009 ST. LOUIS MO LAW ENFORCEMENT
FLOODING WAS REPORTED ON HILLSBORO ROAD WEST OF MERAMAC
STATION
&&
EVENT NUMBER LSX0900276
GKSLocal storm report, Oct 23, 3:30 AM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
330 AM CDT FRI OCT 23 2009
..TIME.. ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE.. ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0329 AM HEAVY RAIN AVISTON 38.61N 89.61W
10/23/2009 M2.60 INCH CLINTON IL TRAINED SPOTTER
2.6 INCHES OF RAIN WITHIN PAST 24 HOURS
&&
EVENT NUMBER LSX0900277
GKSThe office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 22, 8:11 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LSX | Lewis | 60 hr |
| Oct 22, 9:01 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LSX | Marion | 59 hr |
| Oct 22, 9:01 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LSX | Marion | 18 hr |
| Oct 22, 10:06 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LSX | Crawford, Franklin, Iron, Jefferson, Madison, Reynolds and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Oct 22, 11:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Saint Louis | 6 hr |
| Oct 23, 12:57 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LSX | Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Knox, Moniteau and 2 more | 9 hr |
| Oct 23, 5:54 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LSX | Reynolds | 26 hr |
| Oct 23, 7:21 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LSX | Lincoln | 25 hr |
| Oct 23, 9:51 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 25 hr |
| Oct 23, 10:02 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LSX | Knox, Monroe, Shelby | 24 hr |
| Oct 23, 10:07 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LSX | Boone | 6 hr |
| Oct 23, 10:13 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LSX | Saint Louis | 24 hr |
| Oct 23, 11:49 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LSX | Cole | 9 hr |
Nearby
Areal Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2009Every areal flood warning in 2009
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.