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Areal Flood Advisory 92, NWS St. Louis, MO

September 4, 2021Crawford County, Washington County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this areal flood advisory at Sep 4, 2021, 10:20 AM CDT for Crawford County, Washington County, Missouri. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 4, 2021, 10:20 AM CDT (15:20 UTC)
Expired
Sep 4, 2021, 2:15 PM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Crawford County, MO, Washington County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 267 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2021-09-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 980 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2021-09-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
980 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
653 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 4, 11:19 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLSXMadison4 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.