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Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 15, 2009, 3:44 PM CDT for Ripley County, Missouri. It was in force for 110 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 2009, 3:44 PM CDT (20:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2009, 5:34 PM CDT
- In force
- 110 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Ripley County, MO
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 171 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 3093 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 630 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 9.9
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 Jun 15, 3:40 PM CDT, 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 3:40 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 15, 11:45 AM CDT, 3 hours 59 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 1145 AM CDT MON JUN 15 2009 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-161000- 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- 1145 AM CDT MON JUN 15 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM PERRYVILLE MISSOURI...TO CARBONDALE ILLINOIS...TO MADISONVILLE KENTUCKY. STORMS WITH LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE AREA. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH TONIGHT...ALTHOUGH STORMS SHOULD GENERALLY REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. ANOTHER LARGE COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO FORM OVER THE PLAINS TONIGHT AND THEN MOVE TOWARD SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AROUND SUNRISE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY TUESDAY APPEARS TO BE A SIMILAR SITUATION TO TODAY ALTHOUGH THE LOCATION MAY BE FURTHER NORTH. THUNDERSTORMS EARLY IN THE MORNING SHOULD INCREASE IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY DURING THE DAY. THERE IS SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY. THE PRIMARY HAZARDS WILL BE STRONG WINDS AND HAIL. HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE AS WELL. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER WEDNESDAY...THEN ANOTHER CHANCE LATE FRIDAY INTO EARLY SATURDAY. HOT...HUMID AIR IS FORECAST TO SPREAD ACROSS THE REGION THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. MAXIMUM HEAT INDEX VALUES BOTH AFTERNOONS MAY BE AROUND 100 DEGREES. THIS WILL BE THE FIRST WAVE OF HEAT TO AFFECT THE REGION THIS SEASON. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS HAVE BEEN ACTIVATED IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. OTHER SPOTTERS IN THE OUTLOOK AREA SHOULD BE READY FOR ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON. SPOTTERS WILL ALSO LIKELY BE NEEDED TUESDAY ACROSS THE ENTIRE REGION.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 1:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 159 PM CDT MON JUN 15 2009 MOZ100-152000- WAYNE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GREENVILLE AND WAPPAPELLO LAKE AREA 159 PM CDT MON JUN 15 2009 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY... AT 158 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND STRONG WINDS 40 TO 50 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF GREENVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM HAS PREVIOUSLY SHOWN STRONG ROTATION AND MAY DEVELOP A TORNADO IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA. STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SMITH
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 2:29 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 229 PM CDT MON JUN 15 2009 MOZ100-107-108-152015- WAYNE-CARTER-RIPLEY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...VAN BUREN 229 PM CDT MON JUN 15 2009 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY... AT 228 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND STRONG WINDS 40 TO 50 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR FREMONT...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA. STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SMITH
Local storm report, Jun 15, 3:21 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 10:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Wayne | 44 min |
| Jun 15, 11:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Wayne | 35 min |
| Jun 15, 1:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Wayne | 54 min |
| Jun 15, 2:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Ripley | 48 min |
| Jun 15, 2:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Carter, Ripley, Wayne | 92 min |
| Jun 15, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Butler, Stoddard | 51 min |
| Jun 15, 2:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Ripley | 37 min |
| Jun 15, 3:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Butler | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 3:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Butler | 34 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.