Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Paducah, KY
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.
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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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Perry | 37 min |
| Jun 18, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Wayne | 33 min |
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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.