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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Paducah, KY

January 31, 2002McCracken County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jan 31, 2002, 8:24 PM CST for McCracken County, Kentucky. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jan 31, 2002, 8:24 PM CST (02:24 UTC)
Expired: Feb 1, 2002, 12:00 AM CST
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County McCracken County, KY

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 209 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -56 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1061 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 272 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 288 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KPAH 010224
FFWPAH
KYC145-010600-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
823 PM CST THU JAN 31 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1200 AM CST

* AT 820 PM CST...MCCRACKEN COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED 1 FOOT OF
  WATER FLOWING OVER PORTIONS OF LOVELACEVILLE ROAD...AND MAYFIELD
  ROAD...AND HOUSER ROAD.

* AN ADDITIONAL 1 INCH OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE WITHIN THE NEXT 2 HOURS. 
                     
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
LONE OAK AND PADUCAH

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. MOVE TO HIGHER 
GROUND IMMEDIATELY. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT.

LAT...LON 3703 8850 3696 8862 3699 8879 3715 8886
PS

1 follow-up statement

000 
RWUS32 KPAH 010342
FFSPAH
KYC083-105-145-010600-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
941 PM CST THU JAN 31 2002

FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR...
  GRAVES COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY
  HICKMAN COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY
  MCCRACKEN COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY

UNTIL 1200 AM CST.

AT 940 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE BACK EDGE OF THE RAIN 
WAS ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. THE RAIN WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 
MPH...SO THE RAIN SHOULD END OVER MOST OF THE WARNED AREA BY 1100 PM.

HOWEVER...FLOODING PROBLEMS WILL LIKELY PERSIST FOR A PERIOD OF TIME 
AFTER THE RAIN ENDS.

THE MCCRACKEN COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED THAT THE 
FOLLOWING ROADS WERE IMPASSABLE IN PLACES DUE TO HIGH WATER...
LOVELACEVILLE...
MAYFIELD ROAD...AND 
HOUSER ROAD.

FLOODING ALSO CONTINUES IN THE MELBER AREA. CROOKED CREEK IS 
CURRENTLY RUNNING BANKFULL.

IN GRAVES COUNTY...OFFICIALS REPORTED MAJOR FLOODING ALONG HIGHWAY 
58 BETWEEN WINGO AND THE HICKMAN COUNTY LINE. THERE WERE NUMEROUS 
REPORTS OF STREET FLOODING IN MAYFIELD INCLUDING...
SOUTH 10TH STREET BLOCKED OFF DUE TO HIGH WATER...
AND A BRIDGE IS BARRICADED ALONG 10TH AND COLLEGE DUE TO HIGH WATER.

CENTRAL DISPATCH IN HICKMAN COUNTY REPORTED NO FLOODING PROBLEMS IN 
HICKMAN COUNTY.

$$
PS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 31, 8:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Calloway	27 min
Jan 31, 8:20 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Carlisle	2 hr
Jan 31, 8:41 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Graves, Hickman	3 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.