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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Paducah, KY

April 28, 1996Hardin County, Illinois

NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at Apr 28, 1996, 10:52 PM CDT for Hardin County, Illinois. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 28, 1996, 10:52 PM CDT (03:52 UTC)
Expired: Apr 29, 1996, 5:00 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Hardin County, IL

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 214 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2359 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 216 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 315 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KPAH 290356
FFWPAH
ILC047-055-059-065-069-077-081-087-145-165-185-191-193-199-INC051-
125-129-147-163-173-291000-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1052 PM CDT SUN APR 28 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTH ILLINOIS
 
   ...EDWARDS COUNTY...FRANKLIN COUNTY...GALLATIN COUNTY
   ...HAMILTON COUNTY...HARDIN COUNTY...JACKSON COUNTY
   ...JEFFERSON COUNTY...JOHNSON COUNTY...PERRY COUNTY...SALINE COUNTY
   ...WABASH COUNTY...WAYNE COUNTY...WHITE COUNTY...WILLIAMSON COUNTY
 
 
IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA
 
   ...VANDERBURGH COUNTY...POSEY COUNTY...WARRICK COUNTY...SPENCER
   COUNTY...PIKE COUNTY...GIBSON COUNTY
 
FLASH FLOODING CONTINUES TO BE A PROBLEM ACROSS THE WARNED AREA WITH
NUMEROUS ROADS CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER ALONG WITH SOME RESIDENCES
FLOODED.
 
DOPPLER RADAR IN PADUCAH CONTINUES TO SHOW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
MOVING ACROSS THE REGION WITH MORE OVER NORTHERN ARKANSAS AND SOUTH
CENTRAL MISSOURI MOVING TOWARD THE WARNED AREA.  HEAVY RAINFALL IS
EXPECTED TO CONTINUE OVERNIGHT WITH AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 3 INCHES
POSSIBLE.
 
RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES RANGE FROM 3 TO 5 INCHES AS OF 11 PM.  MORNING
TOTALS OF UPWARDS OF 8 INCHES ARE THEREFORE POSSIBLE IN SOME AREAS.
 
 
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.  IF FLASH FLOODING IS
OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY.  MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.  DO
NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
 
 
 
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 28, 9:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Jefferson, Wayne	6 hr
Apr 28, 9:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Perry	6 hr
Apr 28, 10:52 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Gallatin, White	6 hr
Apr 28, 10:52 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Perry, Wayne	6 hr
Apr 28, 10:52 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Jackson, Williamson	6 hr
Apr 28, 10:52 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Johnson, Saline	6 hr
Apr 28, 10:52 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Edwards, Wabash	6 hr
Apr 29, 12:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Gallatin, White	4 hr
Apr 29, 12:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Johnson, Saline, Williamson	4 hr
Apr 29, 12:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Franklin, Hamilton, Jackson, Jefferson, Perry	4 hr
Apr 29, 12:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Hardin	4 hr
Apr 29, 12:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Edwards, Wabash, Wayne	4 hr

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.