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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at Mar 15, 2012, 8:22 PM CDT for Bollinger County, Perry County, Missouri. It was in force for 3 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 15, 2012, 8:22 PM CDT (01:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 15, 2012, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Bollinger County, MO, Perry County, MO
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:23 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 8:55 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Patton Junction, MO | AREAS OF HWY 72 AND 51 ARE REPORTED UNDER WATER |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 296 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
- 1331 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1576 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
070
WGUS53 KPAH 160122
FFWPAH
MOC017-157-160415-
/O.NEW.KPAH.FF.W.0004.120316T0122Z-120316T0415Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
822 PM CDT THU MAR 15 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTH CENTRAL BOLLINGER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...
SOUTHWESTERN PERRY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...
* UNTIL 1115 PM CDT.
* AT 819 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THAT THREE TO FOUR INCHES OF RAINFALL HAVE FALLEN OVER PARTS OF THE
WARNED AREA.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNED AREA INCLUDE...
ALLIANCE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE
WARNED AREA.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE
BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE
UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS
SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
&&
LAT...LON 3743 9015 3762 9015 3771 8999 3761 8991
3736 8998 3735 9015 3742 9015
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Perry | 37 min |
| Mar 15, 9:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Cape Girardeau | 26 min |
| Mar 15, 11:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Stoddard | 3 hr |
| Mar 16, 2:39 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Butler | 3 hr |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.