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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Paducah, KY

May 27, 2000Fulton County, Kentucky; New Madrid County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at May 27, 2000, 12:25 PM CDT for Fulton County, Kentucky; New Madrid County, Missouri. 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
May 27, 2000, 12:25 PM CDT (17:25 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 2000, 3:30 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Fulton County, KY, New Madrid County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 186 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2000-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 481 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2000-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 318 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
481 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-92 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
787 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
318 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
346 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.5

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KPAH 271728
FFWPAH
KYC075-MOC143-272030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1225 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NEW MADRID COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI
  FULTON COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 330 PM CDT

* AT 1225 PM CDT...HEAVY THUNDERSTORM RAINS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE 
ACROSS NEW MADRID COUNTY. THE BRUNT OF THE HEAVY RAIN FALL ACROSS 
SOUTHERN NEW MADRID COUNTY.

* RAINFALL RATES UP TO 1 INCH PER HOUR WILL OCCUR DURING THE WARNING
PERIOD.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY
ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER
LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING.

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 3647 8994 3635 8978 3652 8949 3665 8958

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 5:12 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHCalloway, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Trigg4 hr
May 27, 1:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCalloway63 min
May 27, 2:33 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHCalloway, Trigg117 min
May 27, 3:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHChristian, Todd49 min
May 27, 3:26 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHChristian, Todd2 hr
May 27, 3:45 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHNew Madrid5 hr
May 27, 12:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHNew Madrid39 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 2000Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2000Every flash flood warning in 2000

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.