Heavy rain upstream caused minor flooding on the Mississippi River from Northeast Missouri to just north of S. Louis.
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The episode as NWS LSX wrote it up.
Heavy rain upstream caused minor flooding on the Mississippi River from Northeast Missouri to just north of S. Louis. The river ranged from about 1 to 3 feet over flood stage with some areas still in flood when the month ended.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Aug 25, 2:08 AM CST, 22 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 308 AM CDT SAT AUG 25 2007 .DISCUSSION... STILL NOT SEEING MUCH DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MODELS THE NEXT FEW DAYS AND FORECAST IS BASED ON A BLEND OF THE GFS/SREF MEAN. PRECIPITATION WILL SLOWLY END ACROSS THE REGION TODAY AS WEAK COLD FRONT ALG A KORD-KUIN-KMKC LINE AT 07Z MOVES SLOWLY SE OF THE CWA BY 00Z THIS EVENING. WEAK SHORTWAVE TROUGH CURRENTLY ENTERING NWRN MO WILL SUPPLY ENOUGH ASCENT ALONG WITH WEAK LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE TO PRODUCE SCT SHRA/TSRA AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT. HIGH PRESSURE CENTERED OVER THE DAKOTAS WILL THEN BEGIN TO BUILD INTO THE AREA BY TONIGHT. HAVE INCLUDED AREAS/PATCHY FOG 09-13Z LATE TONIGHT/EARLY SUNDAY WHERE THERE WILL BE LIGHT ELY WINDS/MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES IN AREAS THAT SAW PRECIPITATION ON FRIDAY. EXPECT AREAS TO REMAIN PRECIPITATION FREE FROM SATURDAY NIGHT UNTIL TUESDAY NIGHT AS SRN CONUS UPPER RIDGE BUILDS NEWD INTO THE MID MS VALLEY. TEMPERATURES WILL BE NEAR SEASONAL NORMALS TODAY AND SUNDAY...BUT THEN BACK UP INTO THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 90S ON TUESDAY AS 850MB TEMPS CLIMB INTO THE +20 TO +22C RANGE. PATTERN WILL THEN BEGIN TO AMPLIFY BY MID WEEK WITH RIDGE OVR THE WRN CONUS/TROUGH IN THE EAST WHICH WILL ALLOW ANOTHER COLD FRONT TO PASS SLOWLY THROUGH MO/IL MIDWEEK. BRITT && .AVIATION... FOR THE 06Z TAFS... THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING BRIEF PERIODS OF IFR AND LIFR CONDITIONS IN HEAVY RAIN ARE THE PRIMARY CONCERN FOR AVIATION INTERESTS ACROSS THE CWFA THIS FORECAST PERIOD. PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE ALONG AND NORTH OF THE I-70 CORRIDOR...BUT SCATTERED STORMS COULD STILL REDEVELOP OVER THE EASTERN OZARKS AS WELL. ALSO...AS WEAK COLD FRONT DRIFT S FROM NORTHWEST MISSOURI INTO SOUTHEAST MISSOURI BY SATURDAY AFTERNOON...IT LOOKS LIKE MORE SCATTERED STORMS COULD DEVELOP DURING THE AFTERNOON ALONG AND EAST OF THE I-44 CORRIDOR. VFR CONDITIONS SHOULD PREVAIL ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA OUTSIDE OF ACTIVE CONVECTION. SOME PATCHY MVFR FOG POSSIBLY DEVELOPING BEFORE SUNRISE WHERE HEAVY RAIN HAS FALLEN. WHERE FOG DEVELOPS...IT WILL LIKELY LIFT INTO AN MVFR DECK DURING THE MORNING...CONTINUING TO LIFT TO VFR DURING THE AFTERNOON. CARNEY && .LSX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MO...NONE. IL...NONE. && WFO LSX
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 845 PM CDT FRI AUG 24 2007 ILZ058>060-064-065-069-070-074-079-095>102-MOZ018-019-026-027- 034>036-041-042-047>052-059>065-072>075-084-085-099-251200- ADAMS IL-AUDRAIN-BOND IL-BOONE-BROWN-CALHOUN IL-CALLAWAY-CLINTON IL- COLE-CRAWFORD-FAYETTE IL-FRANKLIN-GASCONADE-GREENE IL-IRON-JEFFERSON- JERSEY IL-KNOX-LEWIS-LINCOLN-MACOUPIN IL-MADISON-MADISON IL-MARION- MARION IL-MONITEAU-MONROE-MONROE IL-MONTGOMERY-MONTGOMERY IL-OSAGE- PIKE-PIKE IL-RALLS-RANDOLPH IL-REYNOLDS-SHELBY-ST CHARLES- ST CLAIR IL-ST FRANCOIS-ST LOUIS-ST LOUIS CITY-STE GENEVIEVE-WARREN- WASHINGTON-WASHINGTON IL- 845 PM CDT FRI AUG 24 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN MISSOURI AS WELL AS WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT THE AREA TONIGHT. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BE STRONG...PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS... FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AGAIN ON SATURDAY...PRIMARILY ACROSS CENTRAL AND EASTERN MISSOURI AND SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS. STRONG STORMS WITH GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...AND FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING WILL CONTINUE TO BE POSSIBLE ON SATURDAY. ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES WILL RETURN TO THE AREA EARLY NEXT WEEK. THE COMBINATION OF HEAT AND HUMIDITY WILL PRODUCE HEAT INDEX READINGS AROUND 100 DEGREES IN THE ST. LOUIS METRO AREA ON TUESDAY AFTERNOON. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ON WEDNESDAY OVER NORTHEASTERN MISSOURI AND WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS AS A COLD FRONT MOVES ACROSS THE REGION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WHILE ORGANIZED OR WIDESPREAD SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT LIKELY FOR THE REST OF TONIGHT...STORM SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT HEAVY RAIN AND RAINFALL AMOUNTS. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE)... HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/LSX/?N=HWO1 CARNEY
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
6 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rain upstream caused minor flooding on the Mississippi River. At Canton, the river peaked about 1.5 feet over flood stage.
Heavy rain upstream caused minor flooding on the Mississippi River. At Hannibal, the river peaked about 2.5 feet over flood stage and was still in flood when the month ended.
Heavy rain upstream caused minor flooding on the Mississippi River. At Saverton, the river peaked about 1.5 feet over flood stage and was still in flood when the month ended.
Heavy rain upstream caused minor flooding on the Mississippi River. At Clarksville and Louisiana, the river peaked about 2 feet over flood stage and was still in flood when the month ended.
Heavy rain upstream caused minor flooding on the Mississippi River. At Winfield, the river peaked about 1 foot over flood stage and was still in flood when the month ended.
Heavy rain upstream caused minor flooding on the Mississippi River. The river peaked about 1 foot over flood stage and was still in flood when the month ended.
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