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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Paducah, KY

February 18, 2000Warrick County, Indiana

NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at Feb 18, 2000, 2:46 PM CST for Warrick County, Indiana. It was in force for 2 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
Feb 18, 2000, 2:46 PM CST (20:46 UTC)
Expired
Feb 18, 2000, 5:00 PM CST
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Warrick County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 226 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 2000-02-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4 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 2000-02-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 541 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
4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-162 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
608 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
541 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
683 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KPAH 182049
FFWPAH
INC173-182300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
246 PM CST FRI FEB 18 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WARRICK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA

* UNTIL 500 PM CST

* AT 236 PM CST(336 PM EST)...PERSISTENT HEAVY RAINS CONTINUE ACROSS 
THE COUNTY.  RADAR SHOWS SHOWERS AND SOME STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 
DEVELOPING TO THE SOUTHWEST OF THE COUTNY AND MOVING OVER AREAS THAT 
HAVE RECEIVED FROM 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN ALREADY TODAY.  

* ANOTHER 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE THROUGH 345 PM.  

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL 
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...NORMALLY DRY WASHES AND AS WELL 
AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 18, 1:47 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningPAHPosey, Vanderburgh3 hr
Feb 18, 1:49 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHPosey, Vanderburgh31 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.