14 feet. It fell below flood stage on July 16.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS LSX wrote it up.
The Mississippi River crested at Winfield, MO on July 1 at 36.14 feet. It fell below flood stage on July 16. For additional information about the flooding consult the June report.
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 15, 9:46 PM CST, 5 hours 14 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED AVIATION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1046 PM CDT TUE JUL 15 2008 .DISCUSSION... /359 PM CDT TUE JUL 15 2008/ LATEST NCEP PRODUCTION SUITE CONTINUES TO INDICATE TRANQUIL WX FOR THE RMNDR OF THE WORK WEEK...WITH A VRY GRDL INCR IN BOTH TEMPS AND HUMIDITY LVLS AS RDG BUILDS AND WESTERLIES SHIFT N. BIGGEST CHALLENGE FOR THE NXT FEW DAYS AND NGTS WL BE TEMPS...AND IN GENL FCSTS REPRESENT A 1-2 DEGREE CLIMB INTO THU AND FRI. THE LAST CPL OF NGTS TEMPS HV NOT DROPPED OFF AS EXPECTED...SO EVEN THO SFC RDG WL BE LINGERING OVR SE PART OF THE FA HV FINALLY GIVEN INTO MET MOS TRENDS FOR MINS. FOR MAX TEMPS HV USED A BLEND OF FWC AND MAV...A COMPO WHICH HAS HAD THE BEST VERIFICATION SCORES OVR THE LAST 30 DAYS OR SO. MAIN QUESTION FOR THE EXTENDED PD CONTS TO BE WHAT IF ANY CHGS WL OCR TO THE ZONAL FLOW THAT DVLPS ALG THE US-CANADIAN BORDER IN THE SHORT RANGE. THIS PTRN DOESNT LOOK VRY STABLE TO ME...BUT EACH DAY THE MEDIUM RANGE MODEL CONSENSUS SEEMS TO BE SUGGESTING THE STATUS-QUO OVR MUCH OF THE LWR 48...WITH A SUBTLE HINT OF A DIP IN THE WESTERLIES OVR THE NE U.S. BY THE START OF NXT WEEK. ERYR RUNS OF THE OPERATIONAL GFS...AS WELL AS TDAS 12Z RUN...CERTAINLY LOOKS OVER-AMPLIFIED AS COMPARED TO ECMWF AND OTHER MEDIUM RANGE GUIDANCE. BASED ON THIS THINKING...FRONT SHUD PRIMARILY RMN N OF OUR AREA SO DONT EXPECT MUCH IN THE WAY OF DAY TO DAY TEMP CHGS...ALTHO CLDS COULD BE SHAVING A CPL OF DEGREES OFF OF MAX TEMPS BY ERY NXT WEEK. ALSO HELD POPS AOB SLGT CHC CAT FOR NOW. TRUETT && .AVIATION... /1045 PM CDT TUE JUL 15 2008/ FOR THE 06Z TAFS... DRY AND VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED NEXT 24 HOURS WITH WINDS INCREASING SLIGHTLY AND VEERING AFTER 13Z. BRITT && .LSX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MO...NONE. IL...NONE. && WFO LSX
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 352 PM CDT TUE JUL 15 2008 ILZ058>060-064-065-069-070-074-079-095>102-MOZ018-019-026-027- 034>036-041-042-047>052-059>065-072>075-084-085-099-161115- 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- 352 PM CDT TUE JUL 15 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN AND CENTRAL MISSOURI AS WELL AS WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TONIGHT. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE)... HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/LSX/?N=HWO1 TRUETT
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Mississippi River crested at Winfield, MO on July 1 at 36.14 feet. It fell below flood stage on July 16. For additional information about the flooding consult the June report.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Missouri in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in Missouri, 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: 129287.