Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Paducah, KY
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 5:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Calloway, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Trigg | 4 hr |
| May 27, 1:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Calloway | 63 min |
| May 27, 2:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Calloway, Trigg | 117 min |
| May 27, 3:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian, Todd | 49 min |
| May 27, 3:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Christian, Todd | 2 hr |
| May 27, 3:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | New Madrid | 5 hr |
| May 27, 12:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | New Madrid | 39 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.