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Flash Flood Warning 31, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 25, 2015, 10:54 AM CDT for Knox County, Lewis County, Missouri. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 2015, 10:54 AM CDT (15:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2015, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Knox County, MO, Lewis County, MO
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 193 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 691 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
149
WGUS53 KLSX 251554
FFWLSX
MOC103-111-252000-
/O.NEW.KLSX.FF.W.0031.150625T1554Z-150625T2000Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
1054 AM CDT THU JUN 25 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
KNOX COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI...
LEWIS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI...
* UNTIL 300 PM CDT
* AT 1052 AM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED FLASH
FLOODING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. NUMEROUS STATE AND COUNTY ROADS
REMAIN CLOSED DUE TO RISING WATERS FROM NEARBY
CREEKS...STREAMS...AND RIVERS. SOME OF THESE INCLUDE ROUTE
C...MISSOURI ROUTE 11...ROUTE J...ROUTE A...ROUTE F...MISSOURI ROUTE
156...ROUTE BB...MISSOURI ROUTE 151...AND ROUTE E WITHIN THE WARNED
AREA.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...CANTON...
EDINA...COLONY...EWING...GREENSBURG...KNOX CITY...LA BELLE...LA
GRANGE...LEWISTOWN...MAYWOOD...PLEVNA AND STEFFENVILLE.
THIS WARNING INCLUDES WAKONDA STATE PARK.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY
AUTOMOBILE.
TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY
YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN ST
LOUIS.
&&
LAT...LON 4031 9195 4026 9194 4025 9150 4019 9151
4004 9150 3995 9145 3995 9232 4025 9236
4031 9234
$$
GOSSELIN1 follow-up statement
240
WGUS73 KLSX 251951
FFSLSX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
251 PM CDT THU JUN 25 2015
MOC103-111-252007-
/O.EXP.KLSX.FF.W.0031.000000T0000Z-150625T2000Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
KNOX MO-LEWIS MO-
251 PM CDT THU JUN 25 2015
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR LEWIS AND KNOX
COUNTIES WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 300 PM CDT...
EXCESS RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED OVER THE WARNED AREA. STREAMS
AND CREEKS IN THE WARNED AREA HAVE RECEDED OR WERE BEGINNING TO
RECEDE...ENDING THE FLOOD THREAT. IF FLOODING HAS BEEN OBSERVED...
PLEASE REPORT IT TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.
LAT...LON 4031 9195 4026 9194 4025 9150 4019 9151
4004 9150 3995 9145 3995 9232 4025 9236
4031 9234
$$
GOSSELINThe office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Knox, Lewis | 64 min |
| Jun 24, 11:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | LSX | Audrain, Knox, Lewis, Lincoln, Marion, Monroe and 3 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 25, 12:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Knox, Lewis, Marion, Shelby | 38 min |
| Jun 25, 1:09 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Knox, Lewis | 6 hr |
| Jun 25, 2:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Marion, Shelby | 7 hr |
| Jun 25, 3:20 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LSX | Marion | 52 hr |
| Jun 25, 4:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | LSX | Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Franklin, Gasconade and 17 more | 39 hr |
| Jun 25, 7:03 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Knox, Lewis | 4 hr |
| Jun 25, 9:19 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LSX | Monroe | 62 hr |
| Jun 25, 9:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Lewis, Marion, Shelby | 4 hr |
| Jun 25, 1:28 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LSX | Marion, Shelby | 7 hr |
| Jun 25, 2:51 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LSX | Knox, Lewis | 6 hr |
| Jun 25, 3:21 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LSX | Lincoln | 3 days |
| Jun 25, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln | 60 min |
| Jun 25, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Charles, Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 54 min |
| Jun 25, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Charles | 19 min |
| Jun 25, 6:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Lincoln, Saint Charles | 14 hr |
| Jun 25, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln | 66 min |
Nearby
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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.