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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Paducah, KY

May 24, 2000Christian County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at May 24, 2000, 7:10 PM CDT for Christian County, Kentucky. It was in force for 110 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
May 24, 2000, 7:10 PM CDT (00:10 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 2000, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
110 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Christian County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 121 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 2000-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3627 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 2000-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 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
3627 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
775 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.6
Supercell composite
6.1

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KPAH 250010
FFWPAH
KYC047-250200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
710 PM CDT WED MAY 24 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CHRISTIAN COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 704 PM CDT...SPOTTERS REPORTED VERY HEAVY RAIN AROUND THE 
HOPKINSVILLE AREA WITH SOME FIELDS ALREADY FLOODED.

* DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED UP TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN THIS 
AFTERNOON WITH ANOTHER INCH OR TWO POSSIBLE OVER THE NEXT HOUR OR 
TWO. THIS WILL RESULT IN FLOODING ACROSS THE AREA. 

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH{ MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

LAT...LON 3707 8768 3667 8762 3669 8738 3709 8733

HOOPER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 7:15 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHChristian, Trigg45 min
May 24, 7:19 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHTodd101 min
May 24, 7:33 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHTrigg87 min
May 24, 8:53 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHChristian, Todd, Trigg97 min
May 24, 10:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHGraves42 min
May 24, 10:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHBallard, Carlisle49 min
May 24, 11:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHMarshall50 min
May 24, 11:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCalloway44 min
May 25, 12:19 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHCalloway, Christian, Trigg4 hr

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.