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Flash Flood Warning 36, NWS Paducah, KY

May 5, 19964 counties in Illinois

NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at May 5, 1996, 3:43 PM CDT for 4 counties in Illinois. It was in force for 3 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: May 5, 1996, 3:43 PM CDT (20:43 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 1996, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Gallatin County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Saline County, IL, White County, IL

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 249 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: 507 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 268 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 334 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

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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.

NWS Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at May 5, 1:14 PM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 5, 1:14 PM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
115 PM CDT SUN MAY 5 1996

LARGE MCS OVR MISSOURI HAS EVOLVED INTO LONG LIVED BOW ECHO MOVING
THRU SE MO ATTM. WINDS OF 70 TO 90 MPH HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS
FEATURE IN PAST HOUR. COMPLEX IS FEEDING ON MDTLY STG LOW LVL
INFLOW OF VERY UNSTBL AIR...WITH CAPES 2000 TO 3000 J/KG. MOST SVR
STORMS...I.E. BOW ECHO...SHOULD REMAIN IN MOST UNSTBL AIR TO THE
SOUTH OF THE FRONT...FROM MDH-EVV SOUTH. A MORE WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAIN
EVENT IS LKLY ALONG AND NORTH OF THE FRONT...WHERE FLASH FLOOD WATCHES
ARE CURRENTLY IN EFFECT. FFG VALUES SHOULD BE EXCEEDED FAIRLY QUICKLY
ACRS PARTS OF SRN IL AND SW INDIANA. DUE TO RAPID MVMT OF SYSTEM
AND HIER FFG VALUES OVER WRN KY...FF WATCH DOES NOT SEEM WARRANTED
FOR SW KY ATTM...EXCEPT MAYBE OWB AREA.

AFTER MCS MOVES THRU THIS EVENING...SFC FRONT MAY BRIEFLY GET SUPPRESSED
SOUTH OF KY TONIGHT. ETA BRINGS IT RIGHT BACK INTO KY MONDAY AFTN...SO
MC@S TRAIN MAY CONTINUE AT LEAST ANOTHER 24 HRS.
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AREA              LOW    HIGH    POP
SW IN             060    076     4/7
SE MO             064    080     5/7
WRN KY            064    080     5/7
SRN IL            062    078     4/7

MY

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 5, 2:50 PM CDT, 53 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
250 PM CDT SUN MAY 5 1996

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0108 PM                              MO   60 MPH WINDS AND PEA SIZE HAIL
05/05/96   RIPLEY                         REPORTED BY COUNTY SHERIFF

0210 PM    CAPE GIRARDEAU            MO   70 MPH WIND GUSTS AT MIDWEST
05/05/96   CAPE GIRARDEAU                 AVIATION

0238 PM    PADUCAH                   KY   65 MPH WINDS WITH SWING SETS
05/05/96   MCCRACKEN                      AND SHOPPING CARTS BLOWN AROUND
                                          AT WALMART
0238 PM    METROPOLIS                IL   TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN
05/05/96   MASSAC
KEYSOR

Local storm report, May 5, 2:51 PM CDT, 52 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
250 PM CDT SUN MAY 5 1996

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0108 PM                              MO   60 MPH WINDS AND PEA SIZE HAIL
05/05/96   RIPLEY                         REPORTED BY COUNTY SHERIFF

0210 PM    CAPE GIRARDEAU            MO   70 MPH WIND GUSTS AT MIDWEST
05/05/96   CAPE GIRARDEAU                 AVIATION

0238 PM    PADUCAH                   KY   65 MPH WINDS WITH SWING SETS
05/05/96   MCCRACKEN                      AND SHOPPING CARTS BLOWN AROUND
                                          AT WALMART
0238 PM    METROPOLIS                IL   TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN
05/05/96   MASSAC
KEYSOR

Local storm report, May 5, 3:11 PM CDT, 32 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 5, 3:18 PM CDT, 25 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 5, 3:28 PM CDT, 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 5, 3:38 PM CDT, 5 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 1:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Alexander, Pulaski, Union	60 min
May 5, 1:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jackson	60 min
May 5, 2:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Johnson, Massac	53 min
May 5, 2:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Williamson	53 min
May 5, 2:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Pulaski	27 min
May 5, 2:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Pope, Saline	69 min
May 5, 2:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Hardin	58 min
May 5, 3:05 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Jackson	4 hr
May 5, 3:05 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Franklin, Williamson	4 hr
May 5, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Gallatin	65 min
May 5, 2:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Fulton, Hickman	60 min
May 5, 2:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ballard, Carlisle	60 min
May 5, 2:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Graves	53 min
May 5, 2:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Calloway, Livingston, Marshall	69 min
May 5, 2:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Crittenden, Lyon, Trigg	58 min
May 5, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian, Hopkins	65 min
May 5, 3:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	McLean, Muhlenberg	58 min
May 5, 3:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Todd	58 min
May 5, 12:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Carter	67 min
May 5, 12:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Wayne	67 min
May 5, 12:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ripley	67 min
May 5, 12:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Butler, Stoddard	60 min
May 5, 12:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Bollinger	60 min
May 5, 12:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Cape Girardeau, Perry	65 min
May 5, 1:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Mississippi, New Madrid, Scott	57 min
May 5, 1:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Cape Girardeau	39 min
May 5, 1:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Stoddard	27 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Illinois, 1996 Every flash flood warning in 1996

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.