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River Flood Warning 119, NWS St. Louis, MO

May 10, 2010Lewis County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this river flood warning at May 10, 2010, 9:13 PM CDT for Lewis County, Missouri. It took effect at May 11, 2010, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 6 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 10, 2010, 9:13 PM CDT (02:13 UTC)
In effect from: May 11, 2010, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired: May 17, 2010, 4:50 PM CDT
In force: 6 days
Issued by: NWS St. Louis, MO
Flood severity: Minor

County Lewis County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 179 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:17 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 river

Written for the forecast point Middle Fabius River near Ewing (EWMM7). The gauge peaked at 20.71 ft at May 16, 2010, 2:00 AM CDT.

Action stage: 9.5 ft
Minor stage: 12 ft
Moderate stage: 17 ft
Major stage: 20 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 05498150, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river 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 river flood warning went out at May 10, 7:13 PM CDT, 2 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 10, 7:13 PM CDT, 2 hours before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 10, 8:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 10, 9:13 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	LSX	Lewis	6 days
May 10, 9:13 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	LSX	Marion	18 hr
May 11, 7:37 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LSX	Marion	8 hr
May 11, 1:11 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	LSX	Monroe	2 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2010 Every river flood warning in 2010

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.