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Flash Flood Warning 65, NWS Paducah, KY

November 7, 19964 counties in Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at Nov 7, 1996, 9:20 AM CST for 4 counties in Kentucky. 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
Nov 7, 1996, 9:20 AM CST (15:20 UTC)
Expired
Nov 7, 1996, 12:00 PM CST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Ballard County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Graves County, KY, McCracken County, KY

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 218 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 12:00Z on 1996-11-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3 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 12:00Z on 1996-11-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 429 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
3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-70 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
567 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
429 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
494 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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
Nov 7, 7:55 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningPAHMassac, Pope2 hr
Nov 7, 9:20 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningPAHMassac, Pope3 hr
Nov 7, 7:30 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningPAHCarlisle, Graves, Hickman, McCracken2 hr
Nov 7, 7:30 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningPAHBallard2 hr
Nov 7, 8:19 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningPAHLivingston116 min
Nov 7, 8:33 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningPAHLivingston117 min
Nov 7, 8:46 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningPAHFulton2 hr
Nov 7, 9:20 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningPAHFulton, Hickman3 hr
Nov 7, 12:19 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHTodd41 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 1996Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.