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Areal Flood Advisory 14, NWS St. Louis, MO

June 11, 2012Saint Louis County, City of Saint Louis, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this areal flood advisory at Jun 11, 2012, 10:11 AM CDT for Saint Louis County, City of Saint Louis, Missouri. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 11, 2012, 10:11 AM CDT (15:11 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 2012, 2:00 PM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties City of Saint Louis, MO, Saint Louis County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:11 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 12:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 362 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 12:00Z on 2012-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2246 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2012-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 287 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2246 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
805 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
287 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
283 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
12.3

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 12:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXReynolds44 min

Nearby

Areal Flood Advisories in Missouri, 2012Every areal flood advisory in 2012

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.