NWS St. Louis @NWSStLouis:"A historic morning in the St. Louis area. Our hearts are with all of those affected from this catastrophic flooding." (9" of rain in 24hrs)

https://twitter.com/ ^ | July 26, 2022 | NWS St. Louis @NWSStLouis

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[EVO X]

Big rainstorms are not uncommon in the the midwest. The Chicago area got hit with similar rains some years ago. We had a similar set up a couple of years ago north of Champaign,Il. Gibson City got hit with 9+ inches in less than a day. It was a devastating flood but the insurance payouts will be chump change compared to the St. Louis area claims..

[laplata]

Is it about to break?

[laplata]

Is it about to break?

[nascarnation]

insurance payouts will be chump change compared to the St. Louis area claims..

Do most people in the area have flood insurance because of the river?

[Zuriel]

Bagnell dam is over 100 miles west of StL, and it’s watershed is mostly west of the lake. Did it rain that hard there?

[Zuriel]

**I’m 80 miles S/SE of St Louis**

Perryville area?

[Big Red Badger]

I’ve experienced Houston’s
Downpours first hand ,,,
YIKES !

[waredbird]

Missouri holds the one hour world record rainfall. That strangled a few frogs.

12” in 42 minutes at Holt, Missouri on June 22, 1947

[Paul R.]

Heh - I think I’d have run over to Johnson Shut-Ins* to cool off, a couple of those afternoons!

*What a fabulous piece of Mo’ Nature! We just visited it (~3 hrs. away) for the 1st time a couple weeks ago - wifey can’t wait to go back.

[Paul R.]

NWS website (not Twitter) full report on the deluge. Quite interesting.

http://www.weather.gov/lsx/July262022Flooding

Also quite interesting, going through the forecast discussions of the 25th, is that NWS really didn’t have any idea such potent rains were in store, until the event was already transpiring.

https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=LSX&issuedby=LSX&product=AFD&format=CI&version=1&glossary=1

(Self updates, so “old” posts will be further and further back in the numerical list, and eventually fall off.)

[Paul R.]

Ah, Gibson City! Not far from Paxton. Years ago, I got stranded in Paxton overnight due to the water pump in my Honda CRX failing, about 3 miles short of the exit off I-57.

You are right about the Midwestern US. One of the more impressive cloudbursts I’ve been in was in Western KY. 6” of rain where I was at, in just over half an hour. The roadside ditches are NOT dug to handle that...

[BikerJoe]

Big rainstorms are not uncommon in the the midwest.

Boy, you ain't kiddin'. This one must've hit some kind of threshold. I started my career at McAir in the mid '80's and lived in Hazelwood for a while. I was continually amazed at how the St. Louis area could get these monster thunderstorms dumping 3 to 5 inches of rain, and the area wouldn't even blink. For a Western Pa. boy, where there'd be flood warnings everywhere, it was pretty impressive that they had obviously built things to handle it (somewhat).

[EVO X]

If they don’t have flood insurance, that is a problem. Some might get direct disaster relief or low interest loans..

[EVO X]

Gibson City had a nice golf course I use to play. The course had financial problems. It shut down and then reopened as a 12 hole course. I haven’t been back..

[EVO X]

The Gibson City flooding I mentioned happened about a year ago. They received about 10 inches of rain in 10 hours. The front stalls out and rains in one spot