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Flash Flood Warning 44, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 1, 2015, 7:55 PM CDT for Boone County, Missouri. It was in force for 4 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 1, 2015, 7:55 PM CDT (00:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2015, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Boone County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:55 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 7:56 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Columbia, MO | OVER 6 INCHES OF MOVING WATER NEAR U.S. HIGHWAY 63 AND INTERSTATE 70 INTERSECTION NEAR MILE MARKER 130. NUMEROUS MINOR FLOODING REPORTS AROUND COLUMBIA. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 256 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
- 2985 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1028 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 240 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 457 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 4.7
- Supercell composite
- 27.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
591
WGUS53 KLSX 020055
FFWLSX
MOC019-020500-
/O.NEW.KLSX.FF.W.0044.150702T0055Z-150702T0500Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
755 PM CDT WED JUL 1 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
BOONE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI...
* UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT
* AT 754 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO
BEGIN SHORTLY.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
COLUMBIA...CENTRALIA...ASHLAND...HALLSVILLE...STURGEON...
ROCHEPORT...MURRY...EASLEY...MIDWAY...HARRISBURG...HARTSBURG...
LUPUS...MCBAINE AND WILTON.
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 70 IN MISSOURI BETWEEN EXITS 115 AND 133.
THIS WARNING ALSO INCLUDES ...
ROCK BRIDGE STATE PARK...FINGER LAKES STATE PARK...AND JEWELL
CEMETERY HISTORIC SITE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE.
&&
LAT...LON 3899 9257 3925 9243 3924 9211 3907 9211
3906 9213 3890 9217 3883 9215 3881 9213
3870 9223 3865 9222 3864 9225 3868 9236
3871 9234 3876 9241 3881 9238 3883 9244
3888 9248 3891 9248 3898 9257
$$
TESThe office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 7:35 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LSX | Saint Charles, Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 4 hr |
| Jul 1, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 37 min |
| Jul 1, 7:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Boone, Callaway | 32 min |
| Jul 1, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone, Callaway, Cole, Moniteau, Osage | 50 min |
| Jul 1, 8:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Cole, Moniteau | 28 min |
| Jul 1, 8:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Callaway, Cole, Moniteau, Osage | 4 hr |
| Jul 1, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Cole, Moniteau, Osage | 47 min |
| Jul 1, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 42 min |
| Jul 1, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jefferson, Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois | 44 min |
| Jul 1, 10:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 5 hr |
| Jul 1, 10:14 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LSX | Crawford, Washington | 4 days |
| Jul 1, 10:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Franklin, Gasconade, Jefferson, Osage | 6 hr |
| Jul 1, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Crawford | 18 min |
| Jul 1, 11:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Crawford, Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois, Washington | 6 hr |
| Jul 1, 11:58 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LSX | Boone | 9 hr |
| Jul 2, 12:58 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LSX | Callaway, Cole, Moniteau, Osage | 9 hr |
| Jul 2, 2:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Iron, Madison, Reynolds | 6 hr |
| Jul 2, 3:20 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LSX | Franklin, Gasconade, Jefferson, Osage | 9 hr |
| Jul 2, 4:41 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LSX | Cole | 55 hr |
| Jul 2, 5:29 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LSX | Crawford, Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois, Washington | 9 hr |
| Jul 2, 6:29 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 46 hr |
| Jul 2, 8:59 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LSX | Boone | 12 hr |
| Jul 2, 10:01 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LSX | Cole, Moniteau, Osage | 12 hr |
| Jul 2, 12:06 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 24 hr |
| Jul 2, 12:10 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LSX | Franklin | 6 hr |
| Jul 2, 12:12 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LSX | Osage | 24 hr |
| Jul 2, 4:50 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LSX | Boone, Callaway, Cole, Moniteau | 47 hr |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.