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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Paducah, KY

May 18, 1995Franklin County, Illinois

NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at May 18, 1995, 12:05 AM CDT for Franklin County, Illinois. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 18, 1995, 12:05 AM CDT (05:05 UTC)
Expired
May 18, 1995, 3:00 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Franklin County, IL

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 242 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 1995-05-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 1995-05-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 181 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
484 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
181 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
293 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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, May 17, 8:12 PM CDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before
INZ067>069-081>083-085>089-ILZ067-068-071>073-076>078-083-087-
KYZ014>023-026-027-061>063-070>075-150700-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN
811 PM CDT WED MAY 17 1995

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #424 HAS BEEN CANCELED...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR WESTERN KENTUCKY HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
A FLASH FLOOD WATCH WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT FOR
ENTIRE TRI STATE AREA.

CARICO/LAMBERTY
Special weather statement, May 17, 8:58 PM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
INZ067>069-081>083-085>089-ILZ067-068-071>073-076>078-083-087-
KYZ014>023-026-027-061>063-070>075-150700-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...SPELLING CORRECTION...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN
811 PM CDT WED MAY 17 1995

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #424 HAS BEEN CANCELLED...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR WESTERN KENTUCKY HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
A FLASH FLOOD WATCH WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT FOR
ENTIRE TRI STATE AREA.

CARICO/LAMBERTY

The office that day

Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 18, 1:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHBallard53 min
May 18, 1:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCarlisle, McCracken58 min
May 18, 2:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHLivingston59 min
May 18, 2:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHMarshall63 min
May 18, 2:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCaldwell, Lyon72 min
May 18, 4:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHMarshall19 min
May 18, 2:03 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHFulton27 min
May 18, 2:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHBallard39 min
May 18, 2:16 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHHickman29 min
May 18, 2:37 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHGraves38 min
May 18, 2:48 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHHickman12 min
May 18, 3:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHLyon, Marshall51 min
May 18, 3:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCalloway51 min
May 18, 3:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCalloway, Graves47 min
May 18, 3:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHFulton47 min
May 18, 3:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHTrigg55 min
May 18, 3:55 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHTrigg35 min
May 18, 4:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCalloway30 min
May 17, 11:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHFranklin28 min
May 17, 11:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHHamilton35 min
May 18, 12:17 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHJackson, Williamson3 hr
May 18, 12:17 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHHamilton, Saline3 hr
May 18, 12:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHHamilton32 min
May 18, 12:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHAlexander, Union59 min
May 18, 1:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHJohnson, Massac, Pulaski58 min
May 18, 1:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHPope, Saline61 min
May 18, 1:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHHardin52 min
May 18, 2:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHSaline59 min
May 18, 1:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHJackson29 min
May 18, 1:46 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHAlexander, Union44 min
May 18, 2:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHJohnson35 min
May 18, 12:17 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHBollinger, Cape Girardeau3 hr
May 18, 12:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHNew Madrid69 min
May 18, 1:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHMississippi42 min
May 18, 1:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHNew Madrid, Stoddard38 min
May 18, 1:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCape Girardeau45 min
May 18, 1:26 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHCape Girardeau, Scott34 min
May 18, 1:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHMississippi, New Madrid34 min

Nearby

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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.