A cold front was moving through southern Missouri and southern Illinois. Showers and thunderstorms developed over the region with some isolated severe storms and flash flooding.
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The episode as NWS LSX wrote it up.
A cold front was moving through southern Missouri and southern Illinois. Showers and thunderstorms developed over the region with some isolated severe storms and flash flooding.
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 Jul 3, 6:08 PM CST, 27 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED AVIATION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 708 PM CDT THU JUL 3 2008 .DISCUSSION... /238 PM CDT THU JUL 3 2008/ COLD FRONT CONTINUES TO SAG SLOWLY SOUTHWARD ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON. DEWPOINTS HAVE DROPPED INTO THE UPPER 50S ACROSS NORTH MO. EXPECT THE FRONT TO CONTINUE TO SAG SOUTHEASTWARD OVERNIGHT. BY 12Z ON THE 4TH, THE FRONT IS FORECAST TO EXTEND FROM NORTHERN KY ACROSS THE MO BOOTHEEL INTO CENTRAL OK. LARGE CANADIAN HIGH WILL BUILD INTO THE REGION AND PROVIDE BELOW NORMAL TEMPS AND HUMIDITY FOR THE 4TH AND ON SATURDAY. WARMER AIR SPREADS BACK INTO THE REGION BY SUNDAY MORNING. VARIOUS MODELS ARE FORECASTING 20C TEMPS AT H85 BACK INTO CENTRAL MO. TEMPS WILL REBOUND BACK CLOSE TO NORMAL FOR EARLY JULY. THE GFS AND ECMWF FORECAST THAT A SHORT WAVE WILL MOVE OUT OF THE NORTHERN PLAINS ON MONDAY. COLD FRONT IS THEN FORECAST TO EXTEND FROM THE UPPER MIDWEST ACROSS SOUTHEAST NEB INTO NORTHERN KS. BOTH MODELS FORECAST THE FRONT WILL SAG INTO THE REGION BY WEDNESDAY. INCREASED POPS IN THE VICINITY OF THE FRONT FOR EARLY TO MID WEEK. THE ECMWF FOREASTS THAT THE FRONT WILL CLEAR MO AND IL BY 12Z THU THE 10TH. THE MODEL HAS BEEN PERFORMING WELL DURING THE EARLY SUMMER. THE ECMWF FORECAST 8 TO 10 DAYS AGO THAT THE COLD FRONT OVER US NOW WILL PUSH ACROSS THE REGION. TPS && .AVIATION... /656 PM CDT THU JUL 3 2008/ FOR THE 00Z TAFS... PRIMARY CONCERN FOR AVIATORS EARLY THIS EVENING IS CONVECTION OVER SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS/EASTERN MISSOURI...AND STRATUS AND MVFR VSBYS IN FOG ACROSS CENTRAL MISSOURI. THIS IS A CHALLENGING AVIATION FORECAST AS THIS WEATHER PATTERN IS NOT TYPICAL FOR EARLY JULY. CIGS ARE DOWN TO 700-1500FT ALONG THE I-70 CORRIDOR IN THE VICINITY OF A COLD FRONT. MODEL GUIDANCE PUSHES THE FRONT TO THE SOUTH TONIGHT AND DRIER AIR WILL FILTER IN ON NORTH-NORTHEAST FLOW. THIS SHOULD SCOUR OUT SOME OF THE LOWER CLOUDS DURING THE EVENING AND BRING THE SHOWERS AND STORMS TO AND END...BUT A CLEARING SKY WILL ALSO MAKE THE REDEVELOPMENT OF FOG AND STRATUS A REAL POSSIBILITY TONIGHT. AS MENTIONED BEFORE...THIS IS ATYPICAL WEATHER FOR JULY...SO NOT SURE HOW LOW TO GO. HAVE BASICALLY KEPT LOW MVFR/HIGH IFR CONDITIONS IN TEMPOS OVERNIGHT TONIGHT WITH GRADUALLY IMPROVING CONDITIONS AFTER SUNRISE FRIDAY MORNING. CARNEY && .LSX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MO...NONE. IL...NONE. && WFO LSX
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 309 PM CDT THU JUL 3 2008 ILZ058>060-064-065-069-070-074-079-095>102-MOZ018-019-026-027- 034>036-041-042-047>052-059>065-072>075-084-085-099-041215- GREENE IL-MACOUPIN IL-MONTGOMERY IL-BOND IL-FAYETTE IL-CLINTON IL- MARION IL-WASHINGTON IL-RANDOLPH IL-ADAMS IL-BROWN IL-PIKE IL- CALHOUN IL-JERSEY IL-MADISON IL-ST. CLAIR IL-MONROE IL-KNOX-LEWIS- SHELBY-MARION-MONROE-RALLS-PIKE-BOONE-AUDRAIN-MONITEAU-COLE-OSAGE- CALLAWAY-MONTGOMERY-LINCOLN-GASCONADE-WARREN-ST. CHARLES-FRANKLIN- ST. LOUIS-ST. LOUIS CITY-JEFFERSON-CRAWFORD-WASHINGTON- ST. FRANCOIS-STE. GENEVIEVE-IRON-MADISON-REYNOLDS- 309 PM CDT THU JUL 3 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN AND CENTRAL MISSOURI AS WELL AS WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT ACROSS A PORTION OF THE AREA AS A COLD FRONT MOVES SLOWLY SOUTHWARD THROUGH THE AREA. MODERATE TO MAJOR RIVER FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ALONG PARTS OF THE MISSISSIPPI AND ILLINOIS RIVERS. SEE THE APPROPRIATE FLOOD STATEMENT FOR SPECIFIC DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THE FOURTH THROUGH WEDNESDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS A SMALL PORTION OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS FRIDAY MORNING. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY AS A COLD FRONT APPROACHES THE REGION. MODERATE TO MAJOR RIVER FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ALONG PARTS OF THE MISSISSIPPI AND ILLINOIS RIVERS. SEE THE APPROPRIATE FLOOD STATEMENT FOR SPECIFIC DETAILS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE)... HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/LSX/?N=HWO1
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
451 PM CDT THU JUL 03 2008
..TIME.. ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE.. ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0440 PM HAIL ELLINGTON 37.24N 90.97W
07/03/2008 E0.88 INCH REYNOLDS MO LAW ENFORCEMENT
REPORTED TO REYNOLDS COUNTY SO BY ELLINGTON PD
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EVENT NUMBER 00627
MILLERPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
546 PM CDT THU JUL 03 2008
..TIME.. ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE.. ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0543 PM HEAVY RAIN 2 S BRAZITO 38.42N 92.28W
07/03/2008 M4.00 INCH COLE MO TRAINED SPOTTER
STORM TOTAL
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EVENT NUMBER 00628
MILLERThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Up to 3 inches of rain fell on already saturated soils in eastern Madison County. Numerous roads were flooded including Walnut Road south of U.S. Highway 40 and Illinois Route 160 south of Highland.
Between 2 and 4 inches of rain fell on already saturated soils causing flash flooding. Numerous roads were flooded including U.S. Highway 50 in Breese, Germantown Road in Breese, and Illinois Route 161 near Albers.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Illinois in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in Illinois, July 2008
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 123474, 123475.