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River Flood Warning 15, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this river flood warning at Feb 28, 2011, 12:06 PM CST for Daviess County, Henderson County, Kentucky. It took effect at Mar 7, 2011, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 14 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 28, 2011, 12:06 PM CST (18:06 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 7, 2011, 6:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Mar 21, 2011, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 14 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 18:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Ohio River at Evansville (EVVI3).
- Action stage
- 24 ft
- Minor stage
- 42 ft
- Moderate stage
- 48 ft
- Major stage
- 52 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03322000, 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 28, 5:53 AM CST, 6 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 28, 5:53 AM CST, 6 hours 13 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Feb 28, 2:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Henderson | 22 min |
| Feb 28, 5:18 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Calloway, Christian, Todd, Trigg | 4 hr |
| Feb 28, 12:06 PM CST | River Flood Warning | PAH | Livingston, McCracken | 29 days |
| Feb 28, 12:06 PM CST | River Flood Warning | PAH | Fulton | 31 days |
| Feb 27, 8:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Johnson, Pope, Saline, Williamson | 25 min |
| Feb 27, 9:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Wayne, Williamson | 37 min |
| Feb 27, 9:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Edwards, Hamilton, Wayne | 28 min |
| Feb 28, 12:14 AM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Jefferson | 46 min |
| Feb 28, 12:38 AM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Franklin, Jefferson, Perry | 37 min |
| Feb 28, 12:46 AM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Hamilton, Wayne, White | 44 min |
| Feb 28, 12:53 AM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Wayne | 37 min |
| Feb 28, 1:12 AM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Edwards, Wabash | 33 min |
| Feb 28, 1:32 AM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Jackson, Union | 43 min |
| Feb 28, 1:35 AM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Wabash | 40 min |
| Feb 28, 2:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Franklin, Jackson, Johnson, Union, Williamson | 28 min |
| Feb 28, 12:06 PM CST | River Flood Warning | PAH | Alexander | 19 days |
| Feb 28, 1:02 AM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Perry | 43 min |
| Feb 28, 1:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carter, Ripley, Wayne | 34 min |
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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.