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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at Apr 25, 2003, 4:44 PM CDT for Pulaski County, Illinois. It was in force for 91 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 25, 2003, 4:44 PM CDT (21:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 25, 2003, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 91 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pulaski County, IL
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 253 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -232 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 656 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 279 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 296 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KPAH 252147 FFWPAH ILC153-252315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 444 PM CDT FRI APR 25 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... PULASKI COUNTY IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 440 PM CDT...PERSISTENT THUNDERSTORMS OVER PULASKI COUNTY WERE DUMPING AROUND AN INCH OF RAIN PER HOUR. RADAR ESTIMATED UP TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN NEAR KARNAK IN STORMS OVER THE PAST 24 TO 36 HOURS. * THUNDERSTORMS WILL BEGIN TO DIMINISH BY 6 PM...BUT NOT BEFORE ANOTHER INCH OR SO FALLS. EXTENSIVE FLOODING OF ROADS AND CREEKS IS LIKELY IN THE WARNED AREA...ESPECIALLY NEAR KARNAK. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE KARNAK ABSOLUTELY DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. NEVER ATTEMPT TO CROSS HIGH WATER IN A VEHICLE OR ON FOOT LAT...LON 3734 8911 3720 8912 3723 8896 3732 8894 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS73 KPAH 252315 FFSPAH ILC153-260015- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 615 PM CDT FRI APR 25 2003 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR PULASKI COUNTY ILLINOIS HAS EXPIRED... THE PROLONGED PERIOD OF HEAVY RAIN OVER PULASKI COUNTY IS DIMINISHING. NO REPORTS OF FLOODING HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM PULASKI COUNTY...AND SO THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$ YORK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Johnson, Williamson | 36 min |
| Apr 25, 9:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Pulaski | 24 min |
| Apr 25, 9:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Johnson | 48 min |
| Apr 25, 2:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Alexander | 28 min |
| Apr 25, 3:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Alexander, Pulaski | 42 min |
| Apr 25, 3:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Alexander | 92 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.