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Flood Watch 2, NWS Paducah, KY

May 3, 20076 counties in Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this flood watch at May 3, 2007, 11:21 AM CDT for 6 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 25 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 3, 2007, 11:21 AM CDT (16:21 UTC)
Expired: May 4, 2007, 12:03 PM CDT
In force: 25 hr
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Flood severity: None

Counties Bollinger County, MO, Butler County, MO, Carter County, MO, Ripley County, MO, Stoddard County, MO, Wayne County, MO

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 238 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 937 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flood watch 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 flood watch went out at May 3, 3:22 AM CDT, 7 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 3, 3:22 AM CDT, 7 hours 59 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 3, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Fulton	52 min
May 3, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Stoddard	50 min
May 3, 4:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Stoddard	27 min
May 3, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	New Madrid, Scott	46 min
May 3, 5:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ripley	43 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.