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Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Paducah, KY

June 10, 1998Christian County, Todd County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 10, 1998, 9:01 AM CDT for Christian County, Todd County, 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: Jun 10, 1998, 9:01 AM CDT (14:01 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 1998, 12:00 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Christian County, KY, Todd County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 105 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: 3323 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 782 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 96 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.6
Supercell composite: 8.0

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The text

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

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 Jun 10, 2:05 AM CDT, 6 hours 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 2:05 AM CDT, 6 hours 56 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 10, 5:00 AM CDT, 4 hours 1 minute 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
Jun 10, 3:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Henderson, Union, Webster	33 min
Jun 10, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Webster	47 min
Jun 10, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Hopkins	40 min
Jun 10, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Muhlenberg	49 min
Jun 10, 5:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Muhlenberg	32 min
Jun 10, 5:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Muhlenberg	18 min
Jun 9, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Saline	31 min

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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.