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River Flood Warning 83, NWS Paducah, KY

May 12, 2008Alexander County, Pulaski County, Illinois; 4 counties in Kentucky; Mississippi County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this river flood warning at May 12, 2008, 10:55 AM CDT for Alexander County, Pulaski County, Illinois; 4 counties in Kentucky; Mississippi County, Missouri. It took effect at May 14, 2008, 10:45 AM CDT. It was in force for 11 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 12, 2008, 10:55 AM CDT (15:55 UTC)
In effect from: May 14, 2008, 10:45 AM CDT
Expired: May 25, 2008, 4:23 PM CDT
In force: 11 days
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Alexander County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Ballard County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Mississippi County, MO

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:00 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 Cairo (CIRI2).

Action stage: 32 ft
Minor stage: 40 ft
Moderate stage: 47 ft
Major stage: 53 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record, 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 May 11, 2:20 PM CDT, 20 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 11, 2:20 PM CDT, 20 hours 35 minutes before

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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.