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Areal Flood Advisory 9, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this areal flood advisory at Apr 28, 2012, 7:41 PM CDT for Clinton County, Saint Clair County, Washington County, Illinois. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 28, 2012, 7:41 PM CDT (00:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2012, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Clinton County, IL, Saint Clair County, IL, Washington County, IL
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 545 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 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 advisory 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 advisory went out at Apr 28, 7:12 PM CDT, 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 7:12 PM CDT, 29 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 712 PM CDT SAT APR 28 2012 .UPDATE... ISSUED AT 712 PM CDT SAT APR 28 2012 SEVERE STORM WATCH 197 HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE WITH ALL SEVERE STORM ACTIVITY NOW CONFINED TO TORNADO WATCH 199 JUST SE OF STL CITY. SEVERE STORMS SHOULD EXIT OR WEAKEN SUFFICIENTLY BELOW SVR LIMITS BY 830 PM OR SO...AND UNLESS SOMETHING CHANGES...ANTICIPATE AN EARLY CANCELLATION OF WATCH BY THAT TIME. TES && .SHORT TERM... ISSUED AT 430 PM CDT SAT APR 28 2012 (TONIGHT) SFC MAP AT 21Z SHOWS WEAK WAVE OF LO PRES OVER THE WRN SUBURBS OF SAINT LOUIS WITH A CDFNT TRAILING SWWD NEAR I-44 CORRIDOR IN MISSOURI AND A WRMFNT THAT HAS BECOME QSTNRY EXTENDING EWD NEAR THE I-70 CORRIDOR IN ILLINOIS. BKN-OVC CLOUD COVER EXISTS OVER MUCH OF THE AREA LIMITING INSOLATION...BUT TEMPS STILL MANAGED TO TOP OUT IN THE LOWER 80S FOR AREAS S OF INTERSTATE 70...WHILE ONLY 60S WERE ATTAINED IN NERN MO AND W CNTRL IL. A WEAK SHORTWAVE OVER IN SRN KS EARLIER THIS MORNING HAS SLIPPED E ACROSS OUR REGION THIS AFTERNOON. THE RESULT...NUMEROUS SHRA/TSRA HAVE DEVELOPED NEAR THE SFC-FRONTAL ZONE WITH A SEVERE SUPERCELL THAT HAS DROPPED VERY LARGE HAIL THRU THE NRN AND ERN STL METRO AREA AND HAS NOW PUSHED INTO FAR ERN SECTIONS OF THE METRO AREA NEAR BELLEVILLE. THIS ACTIVITY SHOULD CONTINUE THRU EARLY THIS EVENING WITH THE MAIN SEVERE THREAT ALG-SE OF THE CDFNT. THIS CDFNT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE VERY SLOWLY SEWD AND EVENTUALLY STALL IN SERN MO AND SRN IL LATER TONIGHT. AN ADDITIONAL ROUND OF SHRA/TSRA IS EXPECTED THERE LATER TONIGHT WITH ANOTHER AREA OF RAIN EXPECTED TO SHOOT NEWD INTO CNTRL-NERN MO LATE. TES && .LONG TERM... ISSUED AT 430 PM CDT SAT APR 28 2012 (SUNDAY THROUGH NEXT SATURDAY) UPPER LEVEL TROF IN WRN CONUS WILL RESULT IN PERSISTENT SW FLOW OVER THE MID MS VALLEY THRU THURSDAY WITH A SERIES OF SHORTWAVE DISTURBANCES. THIS COUPLED WITH A FRONTAL BOUNDARY OR SFC WAVES MOVING THRU DURING THIS TIME WILL GIVE US A WET PERIOD THRU MUCH OF NEXT WEEK WITH FEW PERIODS OF DRY WX. IT WILL BE EASIER TO TALK ABOUT THE FEW DRY PERIODS...WITH ONE EXPECTED FROM LATE TUESDAY THRU LATE WEDNESDAY AND ANOTHER FOR THE EARLY PART OF NEXT WEEKEND. TEMPERATURES WILL BEGIN NEAR AVERAGE...BUT WITH A WARM SECTOR SETUP BEGINNING ON LATE TUESDAY...LOOK FOR A PERIOD OF ABOVE AVERAGE TEMPS WITH MAXES IN THE 80S FOR A GOOD PORTION OF NEXT WEEK. TES && .AVIATION... ISSUED AT 655 PM CDT SAT APR 28 2012 COMPLEX OF STORMS WILL EXIT NEXT COUPLE HOURS BUT WILL LEAVE REMNANT SHRA IN ITS WAKE FOR A BIT. SETTING OF SUN SHOULD RESULT IN LESS ACTIVITY OF SCT SHRA IN THE WAKE OF THE MAIN SEVERE STORMS BUT NEW ROUND OF SHRA/TSRA WILL DEVELOP TO THE SW AND MOVE IN DURING SUNDAY MORNING AND CONTINUE THRU THE EARLY-MID AFTN HOURS. LO CIGS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP N OF THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY TO STALL TO OUR S AND AS THIS FRONT RETURNS N AS A WRMFNT...SHOULD SEE CIGS LOWER TO ITS N LATE TONIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING. CANNOT RULE OUT IFR CIGS FOR I-70 CORRIDOR SITES BUT DID PLACE IN KUIN TAF WHERE IT WILL HAVE MORE TIME TO DEVELOP AND LOWER. IMPROVEMENT WILL COME WITH WRM FROPA. SPECIFICS FOR KSTL...NEXT ROUND OF TSRA TO COME IN JUST N OF WRMFNT DURING LATE SUNDAY MORNING-MIDDAY. LOWER CIGS...POTENTIALLY IFR...WILL AFFECT THE TERMINAL AT AND JUST BEFORE WRM FROPA. IN THEM MEANTIME...LOOK FOR SCT SHRA TO DISSIPATE LATER THIS EVENING. TES && .LSX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MO...NONE. IL...NONE. && WFO LSX
Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 28, 7:20 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 720 PM CDT SAT APR 28 2012 ILZ058>060-064-065-069-070-074-079-095>102-MOZ018-019-026-027- 034>036-041-042-047>052-059>065-072>075-084-085-099-291200- 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 MO- LEWIS MO-SHELBY MO-MARION MO-MONROE MO-RALLS MO-PIKE MO-BOONE MO- AUDRAIN MO-MONITEAU MO-COLE MO-OSAGE MO-CALLAWAY MO-MONTGOMERY MO- LINCOLN MO-GASCONADE MO-WARREN MO-ST. CHARLES MO-FRANKLIN MO- ST. LOUIS MO-ST. LOUIS CITY MO-JEFFERSON MO-CRAWFORD MO- WASHINGTON MO-ST. FRANCOIS MO-STE. GENEVIEVE MO-IRON MO- MADISON MO-REYNOLDS MO- 720 PM CDT SAT APR 28 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN AND CENTRAL MISSOURI AS WELL AS WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NUMEROUS CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXIST ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA TONIGHT. THROUGH EARLY EVENING...A FEW SEVERE STORMS ARE LIKELY. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS...ALTHOUGH THERE WILL BE AN ISOLATED TORNADO POSSIBILITY WITH THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON CONVECTIVE WATCHES...PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST STORM PREDICTION CENTER WATCH PRODUCTS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY A THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL PERSIST ACROSS THE REGION FOR MUCH OF NEXT WEEK AS A FRONTAL BOUNDARY REMAINS DRAPED ACROSS THE CENTRAL U.S. STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE...MAINLY IN SOUTHERN MISSOURI AND ILLINOIS...FOR SUNDAY AND MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. TES
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Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jefferson, Saint Louis | 48 min |
| Apr 28, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 36 min |
| Apr 29, 1:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Charles, Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 46 min |
| Apr 29, 1:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone, Callaway, Cole | 32 min |
| Apr 29, 2:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain, Boone | 38 min |
| Apr 29, 2:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe | 38 min |
| Apr 29, 3:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Callaway | 44 min |
| Apr 29, 4:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln, Montgomery, Pike | 27 min |
| Apr 29, 4:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln, Pike | 46 min |
| Apr 29, 4:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | LSX | Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Crawford, Franklin and 14 more | 15 hr |
| Apr 28, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe, Randolph, Saint Clair | 33 min |
| Apr 28, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Randolph, Saint Clair, Washington | 33 min |
| Apr 28, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Bond, Macoupin, Madison, Montgomery | 34 min |
| Apr 28, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Macoupin, Montgomery | 28 min |
| Apr 29, 5:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Greene, Jersey | 36 min |
| Apr 29, 7:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Macoupin, Montgomery | 6 hr |
| Apr 29, 7:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Montgomery | 20 min |
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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.