Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 20, 1990, 3:30 PM CDT for Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 20, 1990, 3:30 PM CDT (20:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 20, 1990, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cape Girardeau County, MO
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 94 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2036 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1196 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 20, 1:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
INZ011-014-KYZ002-003-ILZ012-014-201930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN 140 PM CDT AUG 20 1990 AT 125 PM CDT...A COUPLE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED IN EXTREME SOUTHERN ILLINOIS. THESE STORMS WERE ABOUT 10 TO 15 MILES EAST OF HARRISBURG ILLINOIS...ABOUT 50 MILES WEST OF EVANSVILLE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...BRIEF STRONG WIND AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. IF YOU ARE IN THE AREA OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS...DO NOT USE ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES AND GO TO A SAFE PLACE UNTIL THESE STORMS MOVE OUT OF YOUR AREA. ELSEWHERE...THERE WERE WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA 25 MILES SOUTH OF TERRA HAUTE INDIANA NEAR SULLIVAN INDIANA. THERE WERE ALSO AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR BLOOMINGTON INDIANA...NORTHEAST TO JUST EAST OF INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HO8UR. TROUTMAN
Special weather statement, Aug 20, 1:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
MOZ022-023-ILZ013>015-201945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 145 PM CDT MON AUG 20 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPD OVER SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND SOUTHERN ILLINOIS. AT 145 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT PADUCAH KENTUCKY SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAS MISSOURI FROM 10 MILES SOUTH OF MALDEN MISSOURI TO 50 MILES NORTHWEST OF POPLAR BLUFF MISSOURI NORTHWARD INTO SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS...30 MILES NORTHWEST OF CARBONDALE. HEAVIEST STORMS WERE SOUTH OF MALDEN MISSOURI AND ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER WEST OF CARBONDALE ILLINOIS. INDICATIONS SHOWED A POSSIBILITY OF SMALL HAIL WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS WELL AS HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT...AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER APROACH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ACROSS THE TRI STATE REGIONTHROUGH THIS AFTERNON AND EVENING. JFB
Special weather statement, Aug 20, 2:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
INZ011-014-KYZ002-003-ILZ012-014-201945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN 217 PM CDT AUG 20 1990 AT 205 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS IN FAR NORTHWEST KENTUCKY. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS ALONG THE OHIO RIVER JUST WEST OF UNIONTOWN KENTUCKY. THERE WERE ALSO STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA FROM NEAR VINCINNES INDIANA...ABOUT 45 MILES NORTH OF EVANSVILLE...TO NEAR BLOOMFIELD INDIANA...ABOUT 65 MILES NORTH OF EVANSVILLE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF STRONG WINDS... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. IF YOU ARE IN THE AREA OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS...DO NOT USE ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES AND MOVE TO A SAFE PL~ACE UNTIL THESE STORMS PASS BY YOUR AREA. TROUTMAN
Special weather statement, Aug 20, 2:35 PM CDT, 55 minutes before
INZ011-014-KYZ002-003-ILZ012-014-202030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN 233 PM CDT MON AUG 20 1990 AT 225 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED OVER SOUTHERN ILLINOIS AND SOUTHWEST INDIANA. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EVANSVILLE NEAR MT VERNON AND 25 MILES WEST OF MARION ILLINOIS. OTHER SHOWERS WERE OVER SOUTHWEST INDIANA ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TERRE HAUTE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE IN THE EVANSVILLE AREA BETWEEN 315 PM AND 330 PM. ES
Special weather statement, Aug 20, 2:50 PM CDT, 40 minutes before
MOZ022-023-ILZ013>015-202045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 245 PM CDT MON AUG 20 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND SOUTHERN ILLINOIS... AT 245 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT PADUCAH KENTUCKY SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST MISSOURI JUST NORTH OF POPLAR BLUFF MISSOURI EXTENDING NORTHEAST INTO SOUTHERN ILLINOIS IN THE VICINITY OF PERCY OR ABOUT 25 MILES NORTH OF CARBONDALE. HEAVIEST STORMS AT WAPPAPELLO MISSOURI AND 30 MILES NORTH OF CAPE GIRARDEAU MISSOURI...AS WELL AS 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MARION ILLINOIS. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL VERY HEAVY RAINS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT...AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER APROACH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NOORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ACR OSS THE TRI STATE REGION THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. JFB
Special weather statement, Aug 20, 3:03 PM CDT, 27 minutes before
INZ011-014-KYZ002-003-ILZ012-014-202030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN 300 PM CDT MON AUG 20 1990 AT 257 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY WINDS WERE IN A CLUSTER ABOUT 40 MILES WIDE CENTERED 15 MILES WEST OF EVANSVILLE. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS WERE OVER MARION ILLINOIS. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH WITH NO CHANGE IN INTENSITY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE IN THE EVANSVILLE AREA THROUGH ABOUT 600 PM CDT. ALL TRAVELERS OVER IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA AND SOUTHERN ILLINOIS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR VERY POOR VISIBILITIES AND PONDING OF WATER IN LOW-LYING AREAS. ES
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.