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Flash Flood Warning 66, NWS Paducah, KY

July 2, 1999Todd County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 2, 1999, 10:03 AM CDT for Todd County, Kentucky. It was in force for 117 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
Jul 2, 1999, 10:03 AM CDT (15:03 UTC)
Expired
Jul 2, 1999, 12:00 PM CDT
In force
117 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Todd County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 94 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 1999-07-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 626 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 1999-07-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 121 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
626 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-64 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1006 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
121 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
180 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.5

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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
Jul 1, 8:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHChristian, Trigg49 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 1999Every flash flood warning in 1999

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.