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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Paducah, KY

June 19, 2015Vanderburgh County, Indiana

NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 19, 2015, 7:47 PM CDT for Vanderburgh County, Indiana. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 19, 2015, 7:47 PM CDT (00:47 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 2015, 10:45 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Vanderburgh County, IN

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:50 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 nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 222 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2015-06-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2015-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 57 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1311 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

729 
WGUS53 KPAH 200047
FFWPAH
INC163-200345-
/O.NEW.KPAH.FF.W.0013.150620T0047Z-150620T0345Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
747 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  VANDERBURGH COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA...

* UNTIL 1045 PM CDT
    
* AT 746 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED THUNDERSTORMS 
  PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO ONE INCH OF 
  RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE 
  INTO THE EVENING HOURS.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  EVANSVILLE...MELODY HILL...DARMSTADT AND KASSON. 

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE 
WARNED AREA.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.

&&

LAT...LON 3817 8747 3804 8747 3803 8745 3794 8745
      3794 8757 3797 8757 3797 8760 3792 8763
      3789 8759 3786 8759 3783 8762 3783 8767
      3786 8768 3789 8766 3790 8768 3790 8770
      3817 8769

$$

BP2

The office that day

Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 19, 9:24 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHPosey3 hr
Jun 19, 10:44 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHVanderburgh3 hr
Jun 20, 9:50 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningPAHGibson5 days

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.