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Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at Oct 5, 2013, 10:36 PM CDT for Ballard County, Carlisle County, McCracken County, Kentucky; Massac County, Illinois. 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
- Oct 5, 2013, 10:36 PM CDT (03:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 6, 2013, 4:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Massac County, IL, Ballard County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, McCracken County, KY
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 7 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:37 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 225 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
- 930 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1467 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
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 Oct 5, 8:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 5, 8:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 839 PM CDT Sat Oct 5 2013 .SHORT TERM...(This Evening through Sunday) ISSUED AT 824 PM CDT SAT OCT 5 2013 Current analysis is a very complicated pattern this evening. Front is through West Plains and St. Louis with bands of showers and thunderstorms ahead and just behind the front. Rainfall is very efficient and may have isolated flooding issues yet tonight. Thinking is at this time that it will not be widespread. Severe potential still exists. 850 jet is expected to increase and models indicate more storms could develop and move up from the north. still have surface based instability over west Kentucky and this may lift farther north into southern Illinois and southwest Indiana. .LONG TERM...(Tuesday through Saturday) ISSUED AT 243 PM CDT SAT OCT 5 2013 Models agree on a mainly dry forecast in the extended forecast with cooler air in place. The latest model runs agree on high pressure at the surface bisecting the forecast area. In addition they indicate ridging aloft in conjunction at the surface which would dictate a dry forecast. Skies will be mainly clear although cant rule out a few friendly cue in the afternoons. Moisture is very slow to return to the area mainly due to the light transport winds in the boundary layer. Even when the winds shift southerly late in the forecast they still remain light. That is until late in the weekend day 8...another system takes shape over the plains and is poised to move into the heartland late in the weekend. The GFS is not very stable from run to run with the timing of this system. However the ecmwf seems to be steady with the timing over the last two runs. Below normal temperatures will moderate back to normal as we approach the middle of the week. && .AVIATION... ISSUED AT 605 PM CDT SAT OCT 5 2013 MVFR and Possible brief IFR conditions expected with storms overnight. Expect winds to veer to the northwest in the fronts wake then slowly back to the west toward sunrise. Expect VFR conditions to return to the west after 12z and clearing the east no later than 18z. May see some patchy fog at KCGI around sunrise. Winds will be gusty and out ot the west by late morning. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IL...NONE. MO...NONE. IN...NONE. KY...NONE. && SHORT TERM...PS AVIATION...KH
Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 5, 3:57 PM CDT, 6 hours 39 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 357 PM CDT SAT OCT 5 2013 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-062100- 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- 357 PM CDT SAT OCT 5 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS A COLD FRONT MAKES ITS WAY ACROSS THE REGION. IF SEVERE WEATHER OCCURS...DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY HAZARD. AFTER MIDNIGHT THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAINFALL WILL EXIST GENERALLY OVER THE SOUTHEAST HALF OF THE QUAD STATE. NO MAJOR FLOODING EXPECTED BUT THE USUAL FLOOD PRONE AND LOW LYING AREAS MAY HAVE BRIEF ISSUES WITH HIGH WATER LEVELS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THUNDERSTORM CHANCES LINGER OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF THE REGION SUNDAY. HEAVY RAIN REMAINS THE MAIN ASSOCIATED HAZARD WITH ANY STORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...PLUS ANY REPORTS OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL OVERNIGHT WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED. JP
In the hours before
Local storm report, Oct 5, 5:36 PM CDT, 5 hours before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
536 PM CDT SAT OCT 05 2013
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0530 PM TSTM WND GST BARDWELL 36.87N 89.01W
10/05/2013 E60.00 MPH CARLISLE KY LAW ENFORCEMENT
WIND GUSTS OF 55 TO 60 MPH WITH SOME ROTATION NOTED IN
THE CLOUDS
&&
PSLocal storm report, Oct 5, 5:56 PM CDT, 4 hours 40 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
556 PM CDT SAT OCT 05 2013
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0555 PM TSTM WND DMG PADUCAH 37.07N 88.64W
10/05/2013 MCCRACKEN KY TRAINED SPOTTER
WALL CLOUD REPORTED BY SPOTTERS IN WESTERN MCCRACKEN
COUNTY
&&
PSLocal storm report, Oct 5, 6:19 PM CDT, 4 hours 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
619 PM CDT SAT OCT 05 2013
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0616 PM TSTM WND DMG PADUCAH 37.07N 88.64W
10/05/2013 MCCRACKEN KY TRAINED SPOTTER
NON ROTATING WALL CLOUD. NO DAMAGE REPORTED. NO FUNNEL
CLOUDS REPORTED.
&&
PSSpecial weather statement, Oct 5, 6:21 PM CDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 621 PM CDT SAT OCT 5 2013 MOZ100-107>109-060000- BUTLER MO-CARTER MO-RIPLEY MO-WAYNE MO- 621 PM CDT SAT OCT 5 2013 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN WAYNE...RIPLEY... CARTER AND WESTERN BUTLER COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI UNTIL 700 PM CDT... AT 619 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF VAN BUREN TO GATEWOOD...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. HAIL UP TO ONE-HALF INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. LOCATIONS THAT MAY BE IMPACTED INCLUDE... VAN BUREN...DONIPHAN...PIEDMONT...GATEWOOD...HUNTER...ELLSINORE... BUDAPEST...NAYLOR...WILLIAMSVILLE...AND NEELYVILLE. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING.
Special weather statement, Oct 5, 9:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 5, 7:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Fulton, Graves, Hickman | 44 min |
| Oct 5, 8:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Calloway, Graves | 48 min |
| Oct 5, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Ballard | 43 min |
| Oct 5, 8:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Daviess, McLean | 38 min |
| Oct 5, 9:27 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, McCracken | 4 hr |
| Oct 5, 11:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Daviess, Henderson | 41 min |
| Oct 6, 12:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Crittenden, Henderson, Livingston, Webster | 6 hr |
| Oct 6, 12:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Daviess | 6 hr |
| Oct 6, 2:04 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Christian | 26 min |
| Oct 5, 9:35 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | PAH | Franklin, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Perry, Union and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Oct 5, 11:04 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | PAH | Edwards, Wabash, White | 4 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.