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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at May 4, 2010, 2:15 AM CDT for Crittenden County, Livingston County, Lyon County, Kentucky. It was in force for 6 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
- May 4, 2010, 2:15 AM CDT (07:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2010, 8:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Unknown
Counties Crittenden County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Lyon County, KY
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:16 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
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 331 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
- 214 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1616 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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 May 3, 12:42 PM CDT, 13 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 3, 12:42 PM CDT, 13 hours 33 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 1242 PM CDT MON MAY 3 2010 .DISCUSSION... NEW SWODY1 PAINTS SLGT RISK ACROSS NORTHERN COUNTIES...IE NORTH OF OH RIVER...ALONG ADVANCING FRONTAL BOUNDARY. LOOKING UPSTREAM VIS IMAGERY DOES REVEAL DISTURBED CU DECK NE MO/NW IL...AND AS TEMPS HEAT UP SURFACE BASED CAPES MODELLED INTO LOWER 1KS J/KG. RUC13 AND NAM BOTH FLIRT WITH NRN ZONES AFT 21Z WITH OVERNIGHT POPS RANGING PERHAPS AS HIGH AS HIGH CHC NE TO LOW/NO CHANCE SOUTH OR SOUTHWEST. GIVEN H5 TEMPS AND LAPSE RATES SWODY1 TEXT SUGGESTS HAIL AS MAIN THREAT IF IT OCCURS. MODELS DO SEEM TO DAMPEN CONVECTION AS IT GETS GOING/APPROACHES FA...SO IT WILL BE A WAIT-NE-SEE ON DEVELOPMENT. WILL GO AHEAD AND PAINT THE TAPERING OF POPS FROM HI CHC TO LOW CHC NE TO SW AND BLEND TO THE COLLAB PIC. AFTER TONIGHT...WE SHOULD SEE SOME WARMING/DRYING. HOWEVER ANOTHER WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY SKIRTS ACROSS THE LOWER OH VALLEY AND INTRODUCES A SLGT CHC MENTIONABLE POP IN OUR NE FOR WED PM/EVENING. OTHER THAN THAT...WE LOOK GOOD AND DRY THRU FRI...WHEN THE NEXT SUCH FRONT COMES THRU. IT LOOKS TO COOL US OFF OVER THE WEEKEND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK AFTER ITS WEEK END FROPA POPS. BLENDED RUC TO GFS FOR LONGER TERM FORECAST PIC. BLENDED MAV/MET MOS WITH HPC GUID AND COLLAB PIC FOR TEMPS. && .AVIATION... MAINLY VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO PERSIST THROUGH TUESDAY WITH THE ONLY CONCERN BEING A WEAK COLD FRONT APPROACHING FROM NRN IL/MO. FRONT WILL NOT APPROACH NWRN PORTIONS OF THE CWA UNTIL AFTER 22Z WITH TIMING OF FROPA AT TAF SITES GENERALLY BETWEEN 04Z AND 07Z. ISOLATED TSTMS WILL LIKELY POP UP AHEAD OF THE FRONT LATER THIS AFTERNOON BUT ACTIVITY WILL NOT HIT EVERY LOCATION AND WILL TEND TO WEAKEN AS IT HEADS FURTHER SE AND AFTER SUNSET/LOSS OF INSTABILITY. WORST CASE WOULD BE A BRIEF PERIOD OF LOW VFR CIGS AND LOW MVFR/IFR VIS WITH A TSTM. WINDS COULD ALSO GUST OVER 20KTS WITH ANY TSTM. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KY...NONE. MO...NONE. IL...NONE. IN...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, May 3, 1:49 PM CDT, 12 hours 26 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 7:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Livingston, Lyon, Marshall | 106 min |
| May 3, 8:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Crittenden, Livingston, Lyon | 6 hr |
| May 4, 8:15 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | PAH | Crittenden, Livingston, Lyon | 54 hr |
| May 4, 2:28 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | PAH | Daviess, Henderson | 6 days |
| May 4, 2:28 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | PAH | Henderson, Union | 7 days |
| May 4, 2:28 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | PAH | Union | 7 days |
| May 4, 2:28 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | PAH | Crittenden, Union | 8 days |
| May 3, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Franklin | 31 min |
| May 3, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Union | 26 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.