Weather Alerts For Vinita Park, MO

# SUMMARY -------------------- SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 454 REMAINS VALID UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS IN ILLINOIS THIS WATCH INCLUDES 4 COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS MADISON MONROE RANDOLPH SAINT CLAIR IN MISSOURI THIS WATCH INCLUDES 9 COUNTIES IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI JEFFERSON SAINT CHARLES SAINT LOUIS SAINT LOUIS CITY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI IRON MADISON REYNOLDS SAINT FRANCOIS SAINTE GENEVIEVE THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ALTON, BELLEVILLE, CAHOKIA, CHESTER, EDWARDSVILLE, FARMINGTON, SAINT CHARLES, SAINT LOUIS, AND SPARTA. # DETAILS -------------------- ISSUED AT Saturday, July 4, 2026 at 4:38 PM CDT ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO HEADER WATCH COUNTY NOTIFICATION FOR WATCH 454

# SUMMARY -------------------- The National Weather Service in St Louis has extended the - Flash Flood Warning for... Northeastern Saint Louis County in east central Missouri... Northeastern Saint Louis City in east central Missouri... - Until 730 PM CDT. - At 433 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing heavy rain over Spanish Lake. Between 1 and 3 inches of rain have fallen. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly. # DETAILS -------------------- HAZARD Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms. SOURCE Radar indicated. IMPACT Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as other poor drainage and low-lying areas. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE - Black Jack, Bellefontaine Neighbors, St. Louis, Ferguson, Dellwood, Florissant, Jennings, Hazelwood, Berkeley, Normandy, Northwoods, St. John, Bridgeton, St. Ann, Overland, University City, Olivette and Maryland Heights. - This includes Interstate 70 in Missouri near exit 231. ISSUED AT Saturday, July 4, 2026 at 4:33 PM CDT ISSUED BY National Weather Service St Louis MO HEADER BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED | Flash Flood Warning # PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS -------------------- Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood deaths occur in vehicles.

A Weather Alert has been issued for a nearby area. While your current location is outside of the impacted area, please stay alert and monitor weather conditions. # SUMMARY -------------------- The National Weather Service in St Louis has issued a - Flash Flood Warning for... Southwestern Saint Louis County in east central Missouri... Saint Louis City in east central Missouri... - Until 730 PM CDT. - At 426 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing heavy rain over Des Peres. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain have fallen. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly. # DETAILS -------------------- HAZARD Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms. SOURCE Radar indicated. IMPACT Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as other poor drainage and low-lying areas. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE Kirkwood, Des Peres, Town and Country, Manchester, Sunset Hills, Ladue, Crestwood, Creve Coeur, Webster Groves, Ballwin, Brentwood, Chesterfield, Richmond Heights, Clayton, University City, Ellisville, St. Louis, Maryland Heights, Wildwood and Eureka. THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING STATE PARKS - Babler Memorial State Park, Scott Joplin Historic Site, Route 66 State Park and Castlewood State Park. - This includes Interstate 44 in Missouri between exits 264 and 277. ISSUED AT Saturday, July 4, 2026 at 4:26 PM CDT ISSUED BY National Weather Service St Louis MO HEADER BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED | Flash Flood Warning # PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS -------------------- Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood deaths occur in vehicles.

Closest strike: 1.03 miles Stay Alert! Remain in a safe area until there has been no lightning within 10 miles of this location for 30 minutes. Please be aware that lightning activity can remain high even when a storm is moving away from your location. Even if rain has stopped, do not leave your safe area until WeatherBug indicates that lightning is more than 10 miles away from this selected location. IF OUTDOORS Avoid water, high ground, and open spaces. Avoid all metal objects including electric wires, fences, and machinery. Find a safe area in a building or in a fully enclosed vehicle with the windows completely shut. Unsafe places include underneath canopies, small picnic or rain shelters, convertibles, or near trees. IF INDOORS Avoid water and stay away from doors and windows. Avoid using a hard line telephone. Take off headphones. Turn off, unplug, and stay away from appliances, computers, power tools, and TV sets. Lightning may strike exterior electric and phone lines, inducing shocks to inside equipment.

There is a Slight Severe Storm Risk for your location. Continue reading for today's outlook from the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center. -------------------- National Severe Storm Outlook THERE IS AN ENHANCED RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF THE SOUTHERN PLAINS AND MID ATLANTIC THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS AND FROM THE SOUTHERN HIGH PLAINS TO SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND SUMMARY Clusters of storms will continue to move across parts of the Allegheny Plateau into the Mid-Atlantic, with potential for numerous damaging wind gusts. Additional severe thunderstorms are still expected across the Great Plains this afternoon and evening, posing a risk for severe wind gusts and large hail. 20Z Update A cold-pool-driven MCS, with a history of measured 50+ kt gusts and wind damage, continues to rapidly propagate eastward across central MO. While deep-layer shear is quite modest over the Ozarks, a pronounced baroclinic boundary is draped across central MO into the St. Louis Metropolitan area. The MCS has likely maintained its intensity thus far by riding this boundary and ingesting some vorticity for bookend vortex and rear-inflow jet maintenance. It is unclear how long this MCS will remain strong/organized given the lack of ambient deep-layer shear. However. surface temperatures on the warm side of the boundary exceeding 90 F, amid mid 70s F dewpoints, is yielding a gradient of 2500-4500 J/kg SBCAPE, which should support some severe gust threat for this MCS for at least the next few hours. As such, 30 percent wind probabilities have been added ahead of the MCS. Guidance consensus, including early depictions from WoFS output, suggests that an MCS will quickly surge southeastward across portions of the southern Plains after initiating along the KS/OK border late this afternoon. The farther southeast initiation (given the current position of the surface outflow boundary left behind from the previous MCS), and southeastward surging potential, it appears that the greatest wind threat will exist into east-central OK. 30 percent/CIG1 wind probabilities have been extended into this region. Five percent hail probabilities have been added across portions of the lower Hudson Valley. Here, MRMS mosaic MESH data suggests that marginally severe hail may already be falling with the more robust storms over northern PA. Furthermore, stronger mid-level flow is grazing the lower Hudson Valley, contributing to 30-40 kts of effective bulk shear amid 1000+ J/kg MLCAPE, which should be adequate to support a continued hail threat. Otherwise, the previous forecast remains on track, including the potential for numerous damaging to occasionally severe gusts expected across portions of the Mid Atlantic into southern New England through the afternoon and evening hours. Mostly minor adjustments have been made to the remainder of the outlook to account for guidance consensus and observations.