Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 2015
Flash Flood Warning 96, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this flash flood warning at Dec 28, 2015, 7:57 AM CST for 4 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 6 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
- Dec 28, 2015, 7:57 AM CST (13:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 28, 2015, 2:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Audrain County, MO, Lincoln County, MO, Montgomery County, MO, Pike County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:00 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
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 240 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 535 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 654 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1003 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
417
WGUS53 KLSX 281357 RRA
FFWLSX
MOC007-113-139-163-282000-
/O.NEW.KLSX.FF.W.0096.151228T1357Z-151228T2000Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
757 AM CST MON DEC 28 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN PIKE COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN MISSOURI...
MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI...
EASTERN AUDRAIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI...
LINCOLN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI...
* UNTIL 200 PM CST MONDAY
* AT 752 AM CST...DOPPLER RADAR AND AUTOMATED RAIN GAUGES INDICATED
HEAVY RAIN FALLING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. MODERATE TO HEAVY
RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE WARNED AREA THIS MORNING AND
INTO THIS AFTERNOON. MANY LOCATIONS HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED 3 TO 6
INCHES OF RAINFALL OVER THE PAST 48 HOURS. AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 3
INCHES OF RAINFALL IS EXPECTED THIS MORNING WHICH WILL LEAD TO
FLASH FLOODING.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
TROY...BOWLING GREEN...VANDALIA...MONTGOMERY CITY...ELSBERRY...
WELLSVILLE...MOSCOW MILLS...WINFIELD...DAVIS...NEW FLORENCE...HAWK
POINT...EOLIA...CLARKSVILLE...BELLFLOWER...FARBER...FOUNTAIN N'
LAKES...CHAIN OF ROCKS...MINEOLA...BUELL AND NEW HARTFORD.
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 70 IN MISSOURI BETWEEN EXITS 170 AND 175.
THIS WARNING ALSO INCLUDES CUIVRE RIVER STATE PARK AND GRAHAM CAVE
STATE PARK.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES. DO NOT BECOME THE NEXT FLASH FLOOD VICTIM!
&&
LAT...LON 3925 9074 3907 9070 3905 9071 3894 9067
3891 9073 3893 9072 3892 9079 3888 9082
3889 9095 3888 9097 3896 9119 3899 9119
3899 9126 3896 9127 3875 9164 3932 9163
3932 9143 3939 9093
$$
TILLYThe office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 28, 2:08 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Reynolds | 3 hr |
| Dec 28, 4:28 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Saint Charles, Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 8 hr |
| Dec 28, 5:21 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Callaway, Cole, Crawford, Franklin, Gasconade, Lincoln and 3 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 28, 5:24 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Iron, Jefferson, Madison, Reynolds, Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 28, 12:23 PM CST | Areal Flood Warning | LSX | Crawford, Iron, Madison, Reynolds, Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois and 1 more | 24 hr |
| Dec 28, 12:37 PM CST | Areal Flood Warning | LSX | Cole, Franklin, Gasconade, Jefferson, Lincoln, Montgomery and 5 more | 24 hr |
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.