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River Flood Warning 18, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this river flood warning at Apr 2, 2014, 8:13 PM CDT for Wayne County, White County, Illinois. It took effect at Apr 4, 2014, 3:49 AM CDT. It was in force for 3 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 2, 2014, 8:13 PM CDT (01:13 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 4, 2014, 3:49 AM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 7, 2014, 7:40 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 days
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Moderate
Counties Wayne County, IL, White County, IL
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 Skillet Fork River at Wayne City (WYNI2).
- Action stage
- 13 ft
- Minor stage
- 15 ft
- Moderate stage
- 17 ft
- Major stage
- 20 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03380500, 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 Apr 2, 8:09 PM CDT, 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 2, 8:09 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 424 AM CDT WED APR 2 2014 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-031000- 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- 424 AM CDT WED APR 2 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TODAY AND TONIGHT. SOME STORMS MAY REACH SEVERE LEVELS...ESPECIALLY AS WE GET INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS WOULD BE THE MAIN HAZARDS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND THURSDAY NIGHT. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORNADOES WILL ALL BE POSSIBLE. THERE WILL ALSO BE A RISK OF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT INTO EARLY THURSDAY. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS PROBABLE THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 2, 6:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Apr 2, 8:03 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 803 PM CDT WED APR 2 2014 KYZ008-030130- MARSHALL KY- 803 PM CDT WED APR 2 2014 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN MARSHALL COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY UNTIL 830 PM CDT... AT 801 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BENTON...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS THAT MAY BE IMPACTED INCLUDE... BREWERS...HARDIN AND AURORA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Marshall | 36 min |
| Apr 2, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Marshall | 31 min |
| Apr 2, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Trigg | 21 min |
| Apr 3, 9:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | PAH | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more | 22 hr |
| Apr 3, 9:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Henderson, Union | 3 hr |
| Apr 3, 9:52 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Daviess | 3 hr |
| Apr 3, 10:40 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Crittenden, Livingston, McLean, Webster | 3 hr |
| Apr 3, 12:31 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Henderson, Union | 3 hr |
| Apr 3, 12:49 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Daviess, Henderson | 3 hr |
| Apr 3, 1:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Daviess, Henderson, Hopkins, McLean, Webster | 119 min |
| Apr 3, 3:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Daviess, Henderson | 3 hr |
| Apr 3, 4:34 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Union | 116 min |
| Apr 3, 5:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Union, Webster | 3 hr |
| Apr 3, 6:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Hopkins, McLean | 110 min |
| Apr 3, 6:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Daviess, Henderson | 12 hr |
| Apr 3, 8:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Franklin | 3 hr |
| Apr 3, 1:43 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Edwards, Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Perry, Wabash and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 3, 2:47 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | PAH | Gallatin, Wayne, White | 17 days |
| Apr 3, 3:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Wayne | 3 hr |
| Apr 3, 3:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Edwards, Wabash, 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.