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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at May 21, 2012, 5:06 PM CDT for Christian County, Kentucky. It was in force for 53 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 21, 2012, 5:06 PM CDT (22:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 21, 2012, 5:59 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Christian County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1067 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
169 WGUS53 KPAH 212206 FFWPAH KYC047-220000- /O.NEW.KPAH.FF.W.0007.120521T2206Z-120522T0000Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 506 PM CDT MON MAY 21 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHEAST CHRISTIAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY... * UNTIL 700 PM CDT. * AT 457 PM CDT...FLASH FLOODING WAS REPORTED FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR RADAR ESTIMATES NEARLY 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN PAST HOUR BETWEEN FORT CAMPBELL AND INTERSTATE 24. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNED AREA INCLUDE... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. && LAT...LON 3673 8756 3676 8732 3664 8734 3663 8756 $$
1 follow-up statement
536 WGUS73 KPAH 212259 FFSPAH FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 559 PM CDT MON MAY 21 2012 KYC047-212309- /O.CAN.KPAH.FF.W.0007.000000T0000Z-120522T0000Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ CHRISTIAN KY- 559 PM CDT MON MAY 21 2012 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR SOUTH CENTRAL CHRISTIAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY... THERE STILL COULD BE ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AROUND THE WARNED AREA. HOWEVER...MOST OF THIS ACTIVITY WILL OCCUR EAST OF WHERE THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAS FALLEN. THEREFORE...THE WARNING IS CANCELLED. LAT...LON 3673 8756 3676 8732 3664 8734 3663 8756 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 4:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | McLean, Muhlenberg | 71 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.