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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Paducah, KY

August 3, 2003Bollinger County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 3, 2003, 4:24 PM CDT for Bollinger 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 as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 3, 2003, 4:24 PM CDT (21:24 UTC)
Expired: Aug 3, 2003, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Bollinger County, MO

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:27 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

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 282 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: 2892 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 669 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 123 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 6.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KPAH 032124
FFWPAH
MOC017-040030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
424 PM CDT SUN AUG 3 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  BOLLINGER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT

* AT 420 PM CDT(420 PM EST)...PADUCAH RADAR SHOWED LOCALLY HEAVY 
RAINS CONTINUING TO AFFECT BOLLINGER COUNTY. THE STORMS SHOWED 
LITTLE MOVEMENT...AND IT IS ANTICIPATED THAT AT LEAST ANOTHER 30 TO 
60 MINUTES OF ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY ACROSS 
THE SOUTHERN HALF OF BOLLINGER OCUNTY. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL ONLY 
EXAGGERATE FLOODING CONDITIONS.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE GLENALLEN...GRASSY...PATTON...PATTON
  JUNCTION AND ZALMA

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.

IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR IMMINENT...MOVE QUICKLY TO HIGHER
GROUND. NEVER DRIVE INTO AN AREA WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

LAT...LON 3754 9015 3710 9017 3710 8990 3754 8992

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WGUS73 KPAH 032158
FFSPAH
MOC017-040000-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
458 PM CDT SUN AUG 3 2003

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM FOR BOLLINGER 
COUNTY...

AT 452 PM...THE BOLLINGER COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED 3.5 INCHES OF RAIN 
ON DD HIGHWAY...10 MILES WEST OF MARBLE HILL.

AT 436 PM...SKYWARN SPOTTERS REPORTED FLOODING OF HIGHWAY 34 NEAR 
GRASSY.

AT 458 PM...PADUCAH RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS IN 
THE VICINITY OF MARBLE HILL AND IN MUCH OF SOUTHERN BOLLINGER COUNTY.
THIS ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN WILL ONLY EXAGGERATE ONGOING FLOOD 
PROBLEMS.

$$

000 
WGUS73 KPAH 040032
FFSPAH
MOC017-040045-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
731 PM CDT SUN AUG 3 2003

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR BOLLINGER COUNTY EXPIRED...

AT 730 PM...PADUCAH RADAR SHOWED LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN NO LONGER 
AFFECTING BOLLINGER COUNTY. WHILE MOST RAINFALL HAD ENDED OVER 
BOLLINGER COUNTY...IT IS POSSIBLE THAT HIGH WATER AREAS COULD BE 
SLOW TO RECEDE. REMEMBER NEVER TO CROSS A FLOODED ROADWAY.

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 3, 2:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	New Madrid	42 min
Aug 3, 2:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Butler	52 min
Aug 3, 3:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Mississippi, New Madrid	29 min
Aug 3, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Butler	46 min
Aug 3, 3:36 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Butler	3 hr
Aug 3, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Bollinger	37 min
Aug 3, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ripley	42 min
Aug 3, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Wayne	46 min
Aug 3, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ripley	44 min
Aug 3, 5:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Ripley	2 hr
Aug 3, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ripley	47 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.