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Flash Flood Warning 42, NWS Paducah, KY

May 10, 1996Gallatin County, Saline County, White County, Illinois

NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at May 10, 1996, 9:16 PM CDT for Gallatin County, Saline County, White County, Illinois. It was in force for 4 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 10, 1996, 9:16 PM CDT (02:16 UTC)
Expired
May 11, 1996, 1:15 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties

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

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 246 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1996-05-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 96 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1996-05-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 55 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
96 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1831 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 10, 8:15 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHJackson, Williamson3 hr
May 10, 11:27 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHGallatin, Hardin, Saline, White5 hr
May 10, 11:27 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHJackson, Union, Williamson5 hr
May 10, 11:27 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHJohnson, Pope5 hr
May 10, 7:14 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHWayne4 hr
May 10, 8:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHBollinger, Cape Girardeau43 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.