A cold front moved through the area triggering showers and thunderstorms. Some of the thunderstorms produced severe weather and flash flooding.
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The episode as NWS LSX wrote it up.
A cold front moved through the area triggering showers and thunderstorms. Some of the thunderstorms produced severe weather 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 8, 1:47 PM CST, 1 hour 3 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
247 PM CDT TUE JUL 8 2008
.DISCUSSION...
/243 PM CDT TUE JUL 8 2008/
COLD FRONT EXTENDED FROM NORTHEAST IA ACROSS THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF
MO INTO SOUTHWEST KS THIS AFTERNOON. EXPECT FRONT TO SAG
SOUTHEASTWARD TONIGHT AND ON WEDNESDAY AND STALL OUT TO OUR
SOUTHEAST. CONVECTION WAS INCREASING/ADVECTING INTO THE FORECAST
AREA. LAPS DATA INDICATED THE HIGHEST CAPES WERE LOCATED OVER
CENTRAL MO WITH LI-S OF -5.
SIGNIFICANT MOISTURE IS FORECAST IN THE VICINITY OF THE FRONT WITH
KS IN THE MID 30S TO AROUND 40 LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
HEAVY RAIN EXPECTED TONIGHT VICINITY OF THE FRONT AS IT MOVES SLOWLY
SOUTHEASTWARD. FLASH FLOOD WATCH ISSUED FOR A PORTION OF CENTRAL AND
EAST CENTRAL MO FOR TONIGHT.
MODELS ARE SIMILAR IN FORECASTING THAT DRIER AIR WILL ADVECT INTO
THE AREA ON WEDNESDAY. EXPECT THE CONVECTION WILL BE ACROSS THE
SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE AREA ON WEDNESDAY.
THE HEAT WAVE THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY EXPECTED FOR LATE IN THE WEEK AND
OVER THE WEEKEND HAS BEEN CUT SHORT. THE ECMWF AND GFS FORECAST
ANOTHER COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA SATURDAY NIGHT. LARGE
HIGH WILL PUSH INTO THE MIDWEST BEHIND THE FRONT.
TPS
&&
.AVIATION...
/1245 PM CDT TUE JUL 8 2008/
FOR THE 18Z TAFS...RATHER COMPLICATED FORECAST FOR THIS TAF
PACKAGE. LATEST RADAR TRENDS WOULD INDICATE THAT ONGOING
CONVECTION ACROSS SW MO AND ERN KS WILL CONTINUE TO PROPAGATE ENE
INTO CENTRAL AND ERN MO THIS AFTERNOON. WITH AIRMASS DESTABILIZING
AHEAD OF THIS AREA OF CONVECTION...TSRA MAY DEVELOP AND AFFECT
SITES EARLIER THAN TEMPOS IN FORECAST BUT THE GENERAL TREND SHUD
BE CORRECT. WITH THE COLD FRONT STILL IN NRN IA...EXPECT CONVECTION
TO DEVELOP ALONG AND AHEAD OF A PREFRONTAL TROF LATER THIS
AFTERNOON. THIS CONVECTION IS EXPECTED TO MOVE SWD THIS EVE AND
AFFECT COU...STL AND SUS AROUND MIDNIGHT. BEHIND THE FRONT...WINDS
WILL BECOME NLY AND CIGS WILL LIFT LATE TONIGHT AND TOMORROW
MORNING.
TILLY
&&
.LSX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
MO...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR BOONE-CALLAWAY-
COLE-CRAWFORD-FRANKLIN-GASCONADE-MONITEAU-OSAGE-WASHINGTON.
IL...NONE.
&&
WFO LSXHAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 319 PM CDT TUE JUL 8 2008 ILZ058>060-064-065-069-070-074-079-095>102-MOZ018-019-026-027- 034>036-041-042-047>052-059>065-072>075-084-085-099-091215- 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- 319 PM CDT TUE JUL 8 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN AND CENTRAL MISSOURI AS WELL AS WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY AS A COLD FRONT MOVES SLOWLY SOUTH ACROSS THE MIDWEST. A FEW OF THE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO LIKELY. MODERATE RIVER FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ALONG PARTS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. SEE THE APPROPRIATE FLOOD STATEMENT FOR SPECIFIC DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY WEDNESDAY ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70 AS THE COLD FRONT SLOWLY PUSHES SOUTH OF THE AREA. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ON SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT AS ANOTHER COLD FRONT IS FORECAST TO MOVE INTO THE REGION. ANOTHER CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS IN THE FORECAST FOR MONDAY. MODERATE RIVER FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ALONG PARTS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. SEE THE APPROPRIATE FLOOD STATEMENT FOR SPECIFIC DETAILS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE)... HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/LSX/?N=HWO1
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Several large tree limbs were blown down onto Illinois Route 106 northwest of Pittsfield.
Numerous tree limbs and a couple of power lines were blown down in Roodhouse and areas just to the east of Roodhouse.
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