• Flood Potential MO/IL

    From Mike Powell@618:250/1 to All on Sun Jul 27 08:25:42 2025
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    Mesoscale Precipitation Discussion 0810
    NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD
    528 AM EDT Sun Jul 27 2025

    Areas affected...North-Central to Eastern MO...Southwest to Central IL

    Concerning...Heavy rainfall...Flash flooding likely

    Valid 270928Z - 271400Z

    SUMMARY...Concerns for locally dangerous and life-threatening
    flash flooding will continue through the early morning hours as
    additional heavy rainfall impacts portions of north-central to
    eastern MO through southwest to central IL.

    DISCUSSION...The latest radar and satellite imagery shows multiple bands/clusters of very heavy showers and thunderstorms continuing
    to impact areas of north-central to eastern MO and into areas of
    west-central IL. This includes embedded areas of slow cell-motions
    and cell-training, with some of this getting very close to the St.
    Louis metropolitan area.

    Rainfall rates with the ongoing areas of convection continue to be
    as high as 2 to 3+ inches/hour, with some MRMS-derived event storm
    totals from overnight now upwards of 8 to 10+ inches in between
    Elsberry, MO and Hamburg, IL.

    This activity continues to focus along and generally north of an
    outflow boundary as a mid-level vort center/trough gradually
    transits the region from west to east. Very moist and unstable
    low-level flow is overrunning the convectively-enhanced cold pool,
    with radar imagery showing recent development farther west over
    areas of north-central MO around the western flank of the vort
    center. Backbuilding convection continues to be noted which is
    continuing to reinforce concerns in the near-term for
    cell-training.

    Some of the latest hires model guidance suggests the ongoing
    convection may linger past dawn and continue at least through the
    early morning hours. The latest satellite trends depicting cooling
    convective cloud tops over north-central and eastern MO would
    certainly support this idea.

    Additional rainfall totals of 3 to 5 inches will be possible at
    least locally given the extremely high rainfall rates and the
    cell-training concerns. Given the ongoing significant flash
    flooding concerns, these additional rains will foster additional
    concerns for dangerous and life-threatening flash flooding impacts
    early this morning.

    Orrison

    ATTN...WFO...EAX...ILX...LSX...

    ATTN...RFC...KRF...MSR...NWC...

    LAT...LON 40259012 39888931 39108921 38688941 38349001
    38389091 38959238 39439330 39759360 40059311
    39919172

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