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Areal Flood Warning 76, NWS St. Louis, MO

October 23, 2009Saint Louis County, Missouri

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 archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2009-10-23Temperature 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, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2009-10-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -52 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
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

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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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Local storm report, Oct 22, 11:54 PM CDT, 5 hours 12 minutes before
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

TES
Local 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

GKS
Local 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

GKS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 22, 8:11 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningLSXLewis60 hr
Oct 22, 9:01 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningLSXMarion59 hr
Oct 22, 9:01 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningLSXMarion18 hr
Oct 22, 10:06 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLSXCrawford, Franklin, Iron, Jefferson, Madison, Reynolds and 6 more5 hr
Oct 22, 11:05 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLSXSaint Louis6 hr
Oct 23, 12:57 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningLSXAudrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Knox, Moniteau and 2 more9 hr
Oct 23, 5:54 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLSXReynolds26 hr
Oct 23, 7:21 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLSXLincoln25 hr
Oct 23, 9:51 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLSXJefferson25 hr
Oct 23, 10:02 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningLSXKnox, Monroe, Shelby24 hr
Oct 23, 10:07 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningLSXBoone6 hr
Oct 23, 10:13 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningLSXSaint Louis24 hr
Oct 23, 11:49 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLSXCole9 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.