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Flash Flood Watch 2, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood watch at Jul 5, 2013, 11:04 PM CDT for 4 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 2013, 11:04 PM CDT (04:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2013, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Christian County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY
The radar
The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 1038 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 463 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 watch went out at Jul 5, 7:03 PM CDT, 4 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 7:03 PM CDT, 4 hours 1 minute before
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Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 9:47 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Todd | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 4:24 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Christian, Hopkins, Muhlenberg, Webster | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 9:05 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | PAH | Muhlenberg | 5 days |
| Jul 6, 1:28 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | PAH | Daviess, Henderson | 44 hr |
| Jul 6, 1:28 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | PAH | Henderson, Union | 72 hr |
| Jul 6, 1:28 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | PAH | Union | 21 hr |
| Jul 6, 1:28 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | PAH | Crittenden, Union | 4 days |
| Jul 6, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carlisle, Hickman | 47 min |
| Jul 6, 5:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Hickman | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Graves, Hickman | 37 min |
| Jul 6, 5:49 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Graves | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 6:12 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Marshall | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 6:27 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Ballard, McCracken | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 6:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Marshall | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 3:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carter | 27 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.