Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 2016
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at Feb 2, 2016, 8:34 PM EST for Pike County, Spencer County, Warrick County, Indiana; 4 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 116 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 2, 2016, 8:34 PM EST (01:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 2, 2016, 10:30 PM EST
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Pike County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Daviess County, KY, Henderson County, KY, McLean County, KY, Webster County, KY
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:33 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, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 217 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -189 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1227 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 479 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 645 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
577
WGUS53 KPAH 030134
FFWPAH
INC125-147-173-KYC059-101-149-233-030330-
/O.NEW.KPAH.FF.W.0002.160203T0134Z-160203T0330Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
734 PM CST TUE FEB 2 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SPENCER COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA...
PIKE COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA...
WARRICK COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA...
EASTERN HENDERSON COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN KENTUCKY...
MCLEAN COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN KENTUCKY...
DAVIESS COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN KENTUCKY...
NORTHEASTERN WEBSTER COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN KENTUCKY...
* UNTIL 930 PM CST/1030 PM EST/
* AT 733 PM CST/833 PM EST/...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS
PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS
EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY. THERE HAVE ALREADY BEEN REPORTS OF
WATERS COVERING ROADS IN SOME LOCATIONS...TYPICALLY FLOOD PRONE
AREAS...AND THESE ADDITIONAL RAINS WILL ONLY HEIGHTEN FLOODING
ISSUES.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
EVANSVILLE...OWENSBORO...HENDERSON...BOONVILLE...NEWBURGH...
CHANDLER...PETERSBURG...ROCKPORT...CALHOUN...SANTA CLAUS...
SEBREE...DALE...LIVERMORE...LYNNVILLE...WINSLOW...GRANDVIEW...
WHITESVILLE...ROBARDS...MASONVILLE AND EUREKA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.
&&
LAT...LON 3790 8699 3779 8682 3767 8682 3738 8722
3742 8735 3757 8737 3760 8764 3794 8757
3794 8745 3820 8747 3820 8732 3838 8732
3838 8741 3853 8746 3855 8720 3851 8707
3821 8707 3821 8679 3806 8677
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 7:47 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Vanderburgh | 88 min |
| Feb 2, 7:59 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Spencer, Warrick | 46 min |
| Feb 2, 8:02 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Pike, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 58 min |
| Feb 2, 8:47 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Spencer | 43 min |
| Feb 3, 12:24 PM EST | River Flood Warning | PAH | Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 7 days |
| Feb 2, 7:18 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Caldwell, Calloway, Crittenden, Hopkins, Livingston, Lyon and 3 more | 117 min |
| Feb 2, 8:45 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Christian, Hopkins, Muhlenberg, Todd | 2 hr |
| Feb 2, 8:55 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Christian, Muhlenberg, Todd | 50 min |
| Feb 2, 11:15 PM EST | River Flood Warning | PAH | Christian, Trigg | 11 hr |
| Feb 2, 11:35 PM EST | River Flood Warning | PAH | Christian, Trigg | 8 hr |
| Feb 3, 10:28 AM EST | River Flood Warning | PAH | Muhlenberg | 5 days |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 2016Flash Flood Warnings in Indiana, 2016Every flash flood warning in 2016
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.