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Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Paducah, KY

June 23, 1998Spencer County, Indiana

NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 23, 1998, 1:31 AM CDT for Spencer County, Indiana. It was in force for 119 min. 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 23, 1998, 1:31 AM CDT (06:31 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 1998, 3:30 AM CDT
In force: 119 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Spencer County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 213 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: 2645 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1476 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KPAH 230631
FFWPAH
INC147-230830-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
131 AM CDT TUE JUN 23 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SPENCER COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA

* UNTIL 330 AM CDT

* AT 128 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER CENTRAL SPENCER COUNTY...MOVING SLOWLY
  SOUTHEAST.

* UP TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE LAST HOUR.  ANOTHER 2
  INCHES IS POSSIBLE THROUGH 300 AM CDT AS THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO
  DRIFT SLOWLY SOUTHEAST ACROSS SPENCER COUNTY

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR
OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA...MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND
IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE
IMMEDIATE ACTION. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS
BY FOOT OR BY AUTO. PERSONS WITH LIVESTOCK OR PROPERTY IN LOW LYING
AREAS SHOULDp TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TO PROTECT THEM FROM HIGH WATER.

MJN

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 22, 1:10 PM CDT, 12 hours 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 1:10 PM CDT, 12 hours 21 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
110 PM CDT MON JUN 22 1998

SHORT TERM CONCERN IS CONVECTION ALONG OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING. LONGER TERM FORECAST CONCERN WILL BE HIGH
HEAT INDICIES.

12Z ETA MODEL INDICATES A SHORTWAVE WILL CROSS THE MID MISSISSIPPI
VALLEY LATE THIS AFTERNOON...EXITING THE LOWER OHIO VALLEY
OVERNIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED ALONG AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM
NEAR CGI TO MVN SINCE 17Z. INCREASING UPPER SUPPORT DURING THE DAY
COMBINED WITH FURTHER DIURNAL HEATING SHOULD RESULT IN A FEW SEVERE
REPORTS BY EVENING. AS SHORTWAVE EXITS THE REGION THIS EVENING...
TSTMS SHOULD DECREASE.

MID LEVEL RIDGE IS PROGGED TO BUILD OVER THE FA LATE TONIGHT AND
TUESDAY. 700 MB WARMING ASSOCIATED WITH THIS FEATURE SHOULD CAP OFF
MOST OR ALL CONVECTION. ETA 2 METER TEMPS AND MOS GUIDANCE INDICATE
TEMPS WILL RISE WELL INTO THE 90S OVER SOUTH PORTIONS OF THE FA
TUESDAY. HEAT INDEX VALUES MAY REACH ADVISORY CRITERIA DURING THE
AFTERNOON AT A FEW SITES.

MY

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 22, 9:34 PM CDT, 3 hours 57 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
934 PM CDT MON JUN 22 1998

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

0844 PM    CISNE                     IL   TORNADO
06/22/98   WAYNE                          AT LEAST 3 CONFIRMED
                                          TOUCHDOWNS ACROSS NORTHERN
                                          WAYNE COUNTY CONFIRMED BY
                                          EMA OFFICIALS.  THESE
                                          TOUCHDOWNS WERE IN THE
                                          CISNE...GEFF AREAS.

0903 PM    MT ERIE                   IL   .75 INCH HAIL
06/22/98   WAYNE                          REPORTED BY WABASH COUNTY
                                          EMA

Local storm report, Jun 22, 11:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1147 PM CDT MON JUN 22 1998

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

1115 PM    PRINCETON                 IN   60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/22/98   GIBSON

Local storm report, Jun 23, 12:26 AM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1226 AM CDT TUE JUN 23 1998

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

1115 PM    PRINCETON                 IN   60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/22/98   GIBSON

1215 AM    EVANSVILLE                IN   WIND DAMAGE
06/23/98   VANDERBURGH                    EVANSVILLE EMA REPORTED A
                                          TREE DOWN ALONG WITH
                                          NUMEROUS LIMBS AND POWER
                                          LINES.

Local storm report, Jun 23, 1:20 AM CDT, 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
120 AM CDT TUE JUN 23 1998

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

1200 AM    HAUBSTADT                 IN   WIND DAMAGE
06/23/98   GIBSON                         POWER POLES DOWN. TIME
                                          ESTIMATED.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 22, 10:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Gibson	27 min
Jun 22, 10:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Gibson	37 min
Jun 22, 11:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Gibson	50 min
Jun 22, 11:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Pike	48 min
Jun 22, 11:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Vanderburgh, Warrick	39 min
Jun 23, 12:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Spencer	35 min
Jun 23, 12:43 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Vanderburgh, Warrick	3 hr
Jun 23, 1:15 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Gibson	2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Indiana, 1998 Every 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.