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Flash Flood Warning 48, NWS Paducah, KY

June 6, 1999Christian County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 6, 1999, 2:36 PM CDT for Christian 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 6, 1999, 2:36 PM CDT (19:36 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 1999, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Christian County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 415 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -82 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1067 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 168 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.

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 6, 2:00 PM CDT, 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 2:00 PM CDT, 36 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
200 PM CDT SUN JUN 6 1999

HIGH PRESSURE OVER MID SOUTH ALLOWING LOW LAYER SLY RETURN FLOW OF
HOT/HUMID AIR. VISIBILE IMAGERY DEPICTS DIURNAL CU FIELD...AND SHOWS
WEAK VORT MAX PICKED UP BY MODELS...CURRENTLY DRIFTING NNW ACROSS
WCNTL TN. THIS FEATURE IS CURRENTLY INTERACTING WITH UNSTABLE PM AIR
AND TOUCHING OFF WIDELY SCT TSRA. WL CONT CLOSE MONITOR UP TO PRESS
TIME FOR FINAL BREAK-OUT OF LINGERING EVENING POP THAT WL BE
NECESSARY.

OTHERWISE CAN SEE NO REASON TO DEVIATE FROM BASIC FORECAST STRATEGY.
IE WHILE THERE IS PROBABLY A SMALL DIURNAL CHANCE POP EACH DAY...NWP
CONTS TO SUGGEST NUMBERS TOO LOW TO CALL FOR IN BODY OF ZONES. WL
THEREFORE MAINTAIN BASICALLY WARM/DRY FORECAST TIL SIGNIFICANT
TRIGGER TO FOCUS CONVECTION IS IDENTIFIED. DID NOTE THAT TIME/HEIGHT
CROSS SECTIONS REVEALED MORE MOISTURE IN LOWER ATMOSPHERE
MONDAY...CAUSING NWP TO JUMP TOWARD BUT STILL <30%. SOMETHING TO
WATCH ON NEXT RUN.

GUIDANCE NUMBERS ARE CONSISTENT/CLOSE AND WL FOLLOW IN GENERAL.

.PAH...NONE.
DH

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 6, 10:19 AM CDT, 4 hours 17 minutes 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 6, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Marshall	41 min
Jun 6, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	McCracken	25 min
Jun 6, 5:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Marshall	112 min
Jun 6, 5:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Graves, McCracken	3 hr
Jun 6, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Pulaski	59 min
Jun 6, 4:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Pulaski	39 min
Jun 6, 4:49 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Pulaski	3 hr
Jun 6, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Gallatin	49 min
Jun 6, 6:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	White	61 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.