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River Flood Warning 242, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this river flood warning at Dec 29, 2019, 10:18 AM CST for Fayette County, Illinois. It took effect at Dec 30, 2019, 1:23 AM CST. It was in force for 30 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 29, 2019, 10:18 AM CST (16:18 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 30, 2019, 1:23 AM CST
- Expired
- Dec 31, 2019, 6:58 AM CST
- In force
- 30 hr
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Fayette County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Kaskaskia River at Vandalia (VNDI2).
- Action stage
- 16 ft
- Minor stage
- 18 ft
- Moderate stage
- 24 ft
- Major stage
- 26 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 05592500, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this river flood warning 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 river flood warning went out at Dec 29, 5:15 AM CST, 5 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 29, 5:15 AM CST, 5 hours 3 minutes before
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.