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River Flood Warning 23, NWS Paducah, KY

March 14, 2011Jackson County, Illinois

NWS Paducah, KY issued this river flood warning at Mar 14, 2011, 12:06 PM CDT for Jackson County, Illinois. It took effect at Mar 16, 2011, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 5 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 14, 2011, 12:06 PM CDT (17:06 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 16, 2011, 7:00 AM CDT
Expired: Mar 20, 2011, 10:13 PM CDT
In force: 5 days
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Flood severity: Minor

County Jackson County, IL

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:09 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 Big Muddy River at Murphysboro (MURI2).

Action stage: 20 ft
Minor stage: 22 ft
Moderate stage: 28 ft
Major stage: 36 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 05599490, 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 Mar 14, 7:05 AM CDT, 5 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 7:05 AM CDT, 5 hours 1 minute before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 14, 4:53 AM CDT, 7 hours 13 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
453 AM CDT MON MAR 14 2011

ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087-
100-107>112-114-151100-
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-
453 AM CDT MON MAR 14 2011

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN
ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST
MISSOURI.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

WIDELY SCATTERED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TODAY
AND TONIGHT...MAINLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF A PERRYVILLE MISSOURI TO
WINSLOW INDIANA LINE. THE MAIN HAZARD WILL BE LOCALLY HEAVY
RAIN...ESPECIALLY ACROSS WESTERN KENTUCKY. THIS MAY LEAD TO
ISOLATED FLOODING OF LOW-LYING AREAS AND SOME SECONDARY ROADS.

A FEW STORMS MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL VERY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT...ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE FROM MARION ILLINOIS TO
PADUCAH AND MURRAY KENTUCKY...EVENTUALLY WORKING INTO SOUTHWEST
INDIANA AND THE PENNYRILE REGION OF WEST KENTUCKY.

RIVER FLOODING CONTINUES ON AREA RIVERS...MAINLY ALONG AND EAST
OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER BASIN. PLEASE REFER TO THE INDIVIDUAL
RIVER WARNINGS AND STATEMENTS FOR MORE DETAILED INFORMATION...INCLUDING
ESTIMATED CREST LEVELS AND TIMES.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE POSSIBLE VERY EARLY TUESDAY MORNING...ALONG
AND EAST OF A LINE FROM OWENSBORO TO ELKTON KENTUCKY. ANY STORMS
THAT DEVELOP SHOULD REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS.

WIDELY SCATTERED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AGAIN
FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT. A FEW OF THE STORMS MAY APPROACH SEVERE
LIMITS FRIDAY AFTERNOON AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT...WITH HAIL AND
THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS BEING THE PRIMARY HAZARDS.

RIVER FLOODING WILL CONTINUE. PLEASE CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE LATEST
WARNINGS...STATEMENTS...AND UPDATED RIVER FORECASTS FOR DETAILS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY THROUGH TUESDAY.
HOWEVER...ANY REPORTS OF WATER ON ROADWAYS...OVERFLOWING DRAINAGE
BASINS OR NATURAL WATERWAYS WOULD BE APPRECIATED.

SMITH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 14, 7:13 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Franklin, Jackson, Perry, Williamson	4 hr
Mar 14, 9:58 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Gallatin, Hamilton, Saline, White	3 hr

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.