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River Flood Warning 8, NWS Paducah, KY

February 6, 2008Daviess County, Henderson County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this river flood warning at Feb 6, 2008, 12:37 PM CST for Daviess County, Henderson County, Kentucky. It took effect at Feb 7, 2008, 8:24 AM CST. It was in force for 11 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 6, 2008, 12:37 PM CST (18:37 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 7, 2008, 8:24 AM CST
Expired
Feb 17, 2008, 9:45 PM CST
In force
11 days
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Flood severity
Minor

Counties Daviess County, KY, Henderson County, KY

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:37 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 river

Written for the forecast point Ohio River at Newburgh Lock and Dam (NBGI3).

Action stage
35 ft
Minor stage
38 ft
Moderate stage
48 ft
Major stage
56 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03304300, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river 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 river flood warning went out at Feb 6, 2:28 AM CST, 10 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 6, 2:28 AM CST, 10 hours 9 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
228 AM CST WED FEB 6 2008

.DISCUSSION...
IN CLEANUP MODE SO WILL TRY AND KEEP IT BRIEF. MAIN FORECAST
CONCERNS WILL BE PRECIP TIMING...COVERAGE...AND POSSIBLE CHANGEOVER
ON THE BACK SIDE OF THE STORM CROSSING THE REGION AT THE TIME OF
THIS WRITING...SMALL CHANCES FOR PRECIP THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH
FRIDAY NIGHT...THEN ANOTHER ROUND OF PRECIP NEXT MONDAY NIGHT INTO
TUESDAY.

LATEST SURFACE MAP INDICATES A SURFACE LOW CENTERED JUST NORTHEAST
OF OUR CWA WITH ITS ATTENDANT FRONTAL SYSTEM BISECTING OUR CWA FROM
NORTHEAST TO SOUTHWEST. THIS BOUNDARY IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE
PUSHING EASTWARD AS THE UPPER LOW ASSOCIATED WITH THIS SYSTEM MOVES
OUT OF THE CENTRAL PLAINS. IN THE MEANTIME...SCATTERED SHOWERS ARE
POSSIBLE ACROSS THE ENTIRE QUAD STATE REGION THIS MORNING...THEN
THIS AFTERNOON AS THE SYSTEM MOVES FARTHER AWAY AND COLDER AIR
BEGINS TO WRAP AROUND THE BACK SIDE OF THE LOW...THERE WILL BE A
SCHC/CHC FOR A RAIN/SNOW MIX GENERALLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM MARBLE
HILL MISSOURI TO HOPKINSVILLE KENTUCKY.

THERE IS A SCHC FOR FLURRIES OVER THE EXTREME NORTHEAST SECTIONS
EARLY THIS EVENING...THEN THE REGION SHOULD REMAIN DRY AND COOLER
THROUGH MIDDAY THURSDAY. ALTHOUGH MODELS ARE NOT PAINTING ANY QPF
ACROSS OUR CWA THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH MINIMAL
MOISTURE AND A DECENT SHORT WAVE MOVING EASTWARD ACROSS THE
CWA...COULD SEE A FEW SPRINKLES....SO ADDED SCHC POPS THERE.

AFTER A BRIEF LULL LATE THURSDAY NIGHT...FRIDAY INTO FRIDAY NIGHT A
LITTLE STRONGER SHORT WAVE AND ASSOCIATED SURFACE TROUGH/FRONT WILL
CROSS THE CWA AND POSSIBLY CRANK OUT A HUNDREDTH OR TWO OF RAIN...SO
ADDED SCHC POPS FOR BOTH PERIODS.

MADE NO CHANGES BEYOND SIXTH PERIOD

&&

.AVIATION...
WIDESPREAD LOW CIGS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THIS TAF PERIOD...BUT WITH
A GRADUAL INCREASE. POCKETS OF LIFR CIGS IN RAIN EARLY THIS MORNING
WILL GIVE WAY TO MVFR CIGS IN ALL AREAS. AREAS OF LIGHT RAIN AND
POSSIBLY SOME LIGHT SNOW THIS EVENING WILL REDUCE VSBY TO AROUND
6SM. WINDS WILL REMAIN GUSTY FROM THE WEST TO NORTHWEST...WITH A FEW
GUSTS TO AROUND 30 KT.

&&

.PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
KY...NONE.
MO...NONE.
IL...NONE.
IN...NONE.

&&

PUBLIC...JP
AVIATION...MY
Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 6, 3:51 AM CST, 8 hours 46 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 5, 6:18 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHFranklin, Jefferson27 min
Feb 5, 6:23 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHJefferson, Wayne52 min
Feb 5, 6:33 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHJackson, Perry17 min
Feb 5, 6:49 PM CSTTornado WarningPAHWayne26 min
Feb 5, 6:59 PM CSTTornado WarningPAHUnion31 min
Feb 5, 7:02 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHEdwards, Wabash43 min
Feb 5, 7:18 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHJackson, Union, Williamson27 min
Feb 5, 7:28 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningPAHEdwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Jackson, Jefferson and 8 more6 hr
Feb 5, 7:31 PM CSTTornado WarningPAHJackson, Williamson29 min
Feb 5, 8:01 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHJohnson, Pope, Saline, Williamson25 min
Feb 5, 9:07 PM CSTTornado WarningPAHAlexander, Pulaski23 min
Feb 5, 9:17 PM CSTTornado WarningPAHMassac, Pulaski13 min
Feb 5, 9:55 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHPope50 min
Feb 6, 12:32 PM CSTRiver Flood WarningPAHGallatin, Wabash, White17 days
Feb 6, 12:37 PM CSTRiver Flood WarningPAHGallatin, Hardin17 days
Feb 5, 6:10 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCarlisle, Fulton, Hickman21 min
Feb 5, 6:35 PM CSTTornado WarningPAHTrigg40 min
Feb 5, 7:01 PM CSTTornado WarningPAHCaldwell, Christian, Hopkins, Trigg44 min
Feb 5, 7:22 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHGraves38 min
Feb 5, 7:31 PM CSTTornado WarningPAHChristian, Hopkins, Muhlenberg44 min
Feb 5, 8:25 PM CSTTornado WarningPAHCaldwell35 min
Feb 5, 9:35 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHDaviess25 min
Feb 5, 9:49 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCalloway, Graves, Livingston, Lyon, McCracken, Marshall and 1 more41 min
Feb 5, 10:22 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCaldwell, Christian, Crittenden, Hopkins, McLean, Muhlenberg and 1 more38 min
Feb 5, 10:29 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCaldwell, Calloway, Christian, Lyon, Marshall, Trigg46 min
Feb 5, 11:15 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHChristian, Muhlenberg, Todd, Trigg45 min
Feb 6, 12:04 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHChristian, Todd26 min
Feb 6, 12:37 PM CSTRiver Flood WarningPAHUnion16 days
Feb 6, 12:37 PM CSTRiver Flood WarningPAHHenderson, Union15 days
Feb 5, 6:31 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCarter, Ripley29 min
Feb 5, 7:08 PM CSTTornado WarningPAHRipley52 min
Feb 5, 7:33 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHBollinger27 min
Feb 5, 7:50 PM CSTTornado WarningPAHButler40 min
Feb 5, 8:13 PM CSTTornado WarningPAHStoddard47 min
Feb 5, 8:44 PM CSTTornado WarningPAHMississippi, New Madrid, Scott31 min
Feb 5, 8:57 PM CSTTornado WarningPAHNew Madrid33 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.