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Areal Flood Advisory 21, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this areal flood advisory at May 24, 2016, 2:32 PM CDT for Ripley County, Missouri. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2016, 2:32 PM CDT (19:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2016, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Ripley County, MO
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 171 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KBYH), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 319 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -134 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1163 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 6:48 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Ripley | 117 min |
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.