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Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Paducah, KY

June 18, 2004Perry County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 18, 2004, 6:01 PM CDT for Perry 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
Jun 18, 2004, 6:01 PM CDT (23:01 UTC)
Expired
Jun 18, 2004, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Perry County, MO

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:01 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

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 294 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, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2004-06-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2004-06-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -19 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
979 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
13 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KPAH 182304
FFWPAH
MOC157-190200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
601 PM CDT FRI JUN 18 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 539 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED RAIN AMOUNTS OF UP TO 2 
INCHES HAD FALLEN OVER A LARGE PORTION OF PERRY COUNTY IN THE PAST 
TWO HOURS.  THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ARE 
CONTINUING TO MOVE OVER PERRY COUNTY AND WILL FOR THE NEXT TWO HOURS.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE FROHNA...LITHIUM...LONGTOWN...
  PERRYVILLE...SILVER LAKE AND CROSSTOWN

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 3770 9005 3762 8989 3764 8954 3786 8993

$$

FRIEDLEIN
2 follow-up statements
000 
WGUS73 KPAH 190025
FFSPAH
MOC157-190200-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
723 PM CDT FRI JUN 18 2004

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 10 PM FOR PERRY COUNTY...

AT 723 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT OVER TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAD 
FALLEN IN PLACES OF PERRY COUNTY.  THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF 
PRODUCING CONTINUED HEAVY RAIN ARE CONTINUING TO MOVE ACROSS PERRY 
COUNTY.  THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE OUT OF THE AREA BY THE END OF 
THE EVENING.

$$

FRIEDLEIN
000 
WGUS73 KPAH 190157
FFSPAH
MOC157-190215-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
856 PM CDT FRI JUN 18 2004

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR PERRY COUNTY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE...

AT 855 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH 
PRODUCED THE EARLIER HEAVY RAINS HAVE MOVED OUT OF SOUTHEAST 
MISSOURI. 

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 18, 4:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHPerry37 min
Jun 18, 5:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHWayne33 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2004Every flash flood warning in 2004

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.