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Flash Flood Warning 48, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 11, 2006, 2:19 PM CDT for Cape Girardeau County, Scott 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 11, 2006, 2:19 PM CDT (19:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 2006, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Cape Girardeau County, MO, Scott County, MO
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:21 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 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 296 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
- 69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 613 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Aug 11, 1:45 PM CDT, 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 11, 1:45 PM CDT, 34 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 145 PM CDT FRI AUG 11 2006 .DISCUSSION... PRIMARY FORECAST CONCERN IS LINGERING CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING...THEN AGAIN MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT. AT EARLY AFTERNOON A QUASI-STATIONARY FRONT WAS HUNG UP EAST-WEST ACROSS THE SOUTHERN THIRD OF THE CWA. THIS COMBINED WITH A RIPPLE OF ENERGY ALOFT WAS PRODUCING A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE SOUTHERN TWO THIRDS OF THE AREA. THIS EVENING MODELS IN DECENT AGREEMENT BRINGING ANOTHER SHORT WAVE/VORT MAX CURRENTLY OVER NORTHWEST MISSOURI SOUTHEASTWARD ACROSS ALL BUT THE NORTHEAST SECTIONS OF THE CWA. SINCE THE AFOREMENTIONED FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL BE MOVING SLOWLY ACROSS THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF THE CWA DURING THE SAME TIME FRAME...WILL LINGER CHC POPS ACROSS ALL BUT THE NORTHEAST SECTIONS THIS EVENING. TONIGHT...RAIN CHANCES WILL COME TO AN END AS SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE CENTERED OVER SOUTHERN ONTARIO CONTINUES TO BUILD SLOWLY SOUTHWARD. AS MOISTURE DECREASES THROUGH THE ATMOSPHERIC COLUMN...CLOUDS SHOULD ALSO BECOME FEWER AND FARTHER BETWEEN. OVER THE WEEKEND...DRY WEATHER IS EXPECTED...ALONG WITH SLIGHTLY COOLER AND LESS HUMID CONDITIONS...AS THE CANADIAN HIGH BUILDS SOUTHEAST INTO THE OHIO VALLEY. BY EARLY NEXT WEEK...ANOTHER FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL INFLUENCE THE REGION WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT. MAINLY DRY CONDITIONS ARE FORECAST FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK AS THE REGION FALLS UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KY...NONE MO...NONE IL...NONE IN...NONE. && JAP
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 11, 11:34 AM CDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 1134 AM CDT FRI AUG 11 2006 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-121645- JEFFERSON-WAYNE IL-EDWARDS-WABASH-PERRY IL-FRANKLIN-HAMILTON- WHITE-JACKSON-WILLIAMSON-SALINE-GALLATIN-UNION IL-JOHNSON-POPE- HARDIN-ALEXANDER-PULASKI-MASSAC-GIBSON-PIKE-POSEY-VANDERBURGH- WARRICK-SPENCER-FULTON-HICKMAN-CARLISLE-BALLARD-MCCRACKEN-GRAVES- LIVINGSTON-MARSHALL-CALLOWAY-CRITTENDEN-LYON-TRIGG-CALDWELL- UNION KY-WEBSTER-HOPKINS-CHRISTIAN-HENDERSON-DAVIESS-MCLEAN- MUHLENBERG-TODD-PERRY MO-BOLLINGER-CAPE GIRARDEAU-WAYNE MO-CARTER- RIPLEY-BUTLER-STODDARD-SCOTT-MISSISSIPPI-NEW MADRID- 1134 AM CDT FRI AUG 11 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THE POTENTIAL FOR THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES OVER THE ENTIRE AREA TODAY AS A COLD FRONT PUSHES SOUTH INTO ARKANSAS AND TENNESSEE BY LATE AFTERNOON. AMPLE MORNING CLOUD COVER SHOULD INITIALLY RETARD SURFACE-BASED DESTABILIZATION. HOWEVER...IF ENOUGH SUNSHINE BREAKS OUT BY MIDDAY... THE ATMOSPHERE MAY BECOME UNSTABLE ENOUGH TO PRODUCE A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS. IN ADDITION...THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS MAY RESULT IN LOCALIZED FLOODING. ANY LINGERING STORMS SHOULD SHIFT SOUTH INTO ARKANSAS AND TENNESSEE BY LATE AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE AGAIN POSSIBLE EARLY NEXT WEEK...FROM MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT. AT THIS TIME...WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 11, 2:15 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
215 PM CDT FRI AUG 11 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0201 PM FLASH FLOOD CAPE GIRARDEAU 37.31N 89.55W
08/11/2006 CAPE GIRARDEAU MO TRAINED SPOTTER
WIDESPREAD STREET FLOODING THROUGHOUT COMMUNITY. CREEKS
AND SMALL STREAMS RISING RAPIDLY.
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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.