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Flash Flood Warning 31, NWS Paducah, KY

June 13, 1998Carlisle County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 1998, 12:11 AM CDT for Carlisle 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 13, 1998, 12:11 AM CDT (05:11 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 1998, 3:00 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Carlisle County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 227 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 1998-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1825 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 1998-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 76 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
1825 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1473 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
4.6

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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 12, 1:15 PM CDT, 10 hours 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 1:15 PM CDT, 10 hours 56 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
115 PM CDT FRI JUN 12 1998

MAIN FORECAST CONCERNS TODAY CENTER AROUND THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT
INCLUDING FRONTAL PROGRESS.

CLEAR SKIES DURING THE AM HOURS ALLOWED SURFACE TEMPS AND
INSTABILITY TO REACH MAXIMUM VALUES POSSIBLE FOR INITIATION OF
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON/EVENING. ADAP INDICATED
H5 LI/S OF ABOUT -8 ACROSS AREA AT 17Z.

NSAT 2KM VIS SHOWED CU DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHWEST IL WHERE ADAP
SHOWED BEST SURFACE MOISTURE CONVERGENCE AND EAST OF LAKE IN
KY...OTHERWISE SKIES LARGELY CLEAR AT MIDDAY.

BEST DYNAMICS...MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY FOR THUNDERSTORM
DEVELOPMENT CONTINUES TO BE OVER THE NE PART OF THE FA.  COLD FRONT
FROM NW IL TO ABOUT CENTRAL MO AT 18Z SHOULD SPEED UP AS SHORT WAVE
MAKES A DECISIVE SOUTHEAST MOVEMENT NEXT 12 HOURS.  MODEL GRIDDED
DATA SHOWED LITTLE MOISTURE RECOVERY OVER SE MO WITH DRYING (30% RH
AT 850-500/60-50% LOW LEVEL RH) PUSHING EAST INTO MOST OF FA BY 06Z.
THIS MAY PRECLUDE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT OVER SOUTHEAST MO WITH
INCREASING CHANCES NE TOWARD SOUTHWEST IN.  EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS TO
BE OVER ACROSS E PART OF FA BY MIDNIGHT OR SHORTLY THEREAFTER.

MOS TEMPS LOOKS OK CONSIDERING FASTER PROGRESSION OF FRONT/DRY AIR.

RLS

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 12, 8:02 PM CDT, 4 hours 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
802 PM CDT FRI JUN 12 1998

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

0800 PM    MARION WLLMSON CO ARPT    IL   TORNADO
06/12/98   WILLIAMSON                     ILLINOIS STATE POLICE
                                          REPORTED A TORNADO ON OR
                                          NEAR THE GROUND AT
                                          HIGHWAYS 13 AND 148
Local storm report, Jun 12, 8:17 PM CDT, 3 hours 54 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
817 PM CDT FRI JUN 12 1998

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

0800 PM    WEST SALEM                IL   50 MPH TSTM GUST
06/12/98   EDWARDS                        REPORTED BY EDWARDS CO
                                          SHERIFF.

0810 PM    PATTON                    IL   TORNADO
06/12/98   WABASH                         TORNADO REPORTED NEAR
                                          PATTON BY SKYWARN
                                          SPOTTERS.
Local storm report, Jun 12, 8:21 PM CDT, 3 hours 50 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
821 PM CDT FRI JUN 12 1998

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

0818 PM    PRINCETON                 IN
06/12/98   GIBSON                         FUNNEL CLOUD REPORTED OVER
                                          STATE ROAD 64 NEAR THE
                                          WALMART ON THE NORTHWEST
                                          SIDE OF PRINCETON
Local storm report, Jun 12, 8:52 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
852 PM CDT FRI JUN 12 1998

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

0849 PM    HARRISBURG                IL
06/12/98   SALINE                         FUNNEL CLOUD 12 MILES
                                          SOUTH OF HARRISBURG
Special weather statement, Jun 12, 10:09 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087-
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1009 PM CDT FRI JUN 12 1998

...LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES TO CROSS THE LOWER OHIO VALLEY...

A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM JUST WEST OF CAPE GIRARDEAU
MISSOURI NORTHEAST ALONG THE OHIO RIVER TO THE EVANSVILLE AND OWENSBORO
AREAS AT 1000 PM. A FEW OF THE STORMS IN THIS LINE HAVE BEEN ACCOMPANIED
BY STRONG GUSTY WINDS TO 60 MPH.

THERE IS SOME POTENTIAL FOR TORNADOES WITH THE STORMS OVER SOUTHWEST
INDIANA AND NORTHWEST KENTUCKY. THEREFORE...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN
EFFECT FOR THOSE AREAS UNTIL MIDNIGHT. IN KENTUCKY...THE WATCH IS ALONG
AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM MARION KY TO CENTRAL CITY.

THE LINE OF STORMS WILL PASS THROUGH EXTREME SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND
MUCH OF WESTERN KENTUCKY BY 200 AM. ANY OF THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE
STRONG WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 60 MPH...WHICH COULD RESULT IN DOWNED TREES
AND MINOR ROOF DAMAGE.

BE READY TO MOVE TO A WELL CONSTRUCTED BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF A
WARNING IS ISSUED...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS.

YORK
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 12:00 AM CDT, 11 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 9:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHHenderson57 min
Jun 12, 9:55 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHHenderson, Union65 min
Jun 12, 10:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHBallard, McCracken58 min
Jun 12, 10:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCarlisle50 min
Jun 12, 10:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHGraves, Hickman66 min
Jun 12, 11:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCalloway, Marshall48 min
Jun 12, 11:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHTrigg55 min
Jun 12, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHWayne60 min
Jun 12, 7:42 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHWilliamson48 min
Jun 12, 7:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHEdwards, Wabash63 min
Jun 12, 8:14 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHWabash46 min
Jun 12, 8:28 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHWhite47 min
Jun 12, 8:31 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHSaline44 min
Jun 12, 8:31 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHSaline49 min
Jun 12, 8:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHUnion43 min
Jun 12, 9:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHWilliamson49 min
Jun 12, 9:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHAlexander, Pulaski48 min
Jun 12, 9:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHGallatin49 min
Jun 12, 8:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHPerry40 min
Jun 12, 9:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHBollinger39 min
Jun 12, 9:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHScott, Stoddard55 min
Jun 12, 10:10 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHScott35 min
Jun 12, 10:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHMississippi50 min
Jun 12, 10:47 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHMississippi, Scott43 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998

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.