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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Paducah, KY

February 2, 2016Pike County, Spencer County, Warrick County, Indiana; 4 counties in Kentucky

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2016-02-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2016-02-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 479 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 2, 7:47 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningPAHVanderburgh88 min
Feb 2, 7:59 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementPAHSpencer, Warrick46 min
Feb 2, 8:02 PM ESTAreal Flood AdvisoryPAHPike, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick58 min
Feb 2, 8:47 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementPAHSpencer43 min
Feb 3, 12:24 PM ESTRiver Flood WarningPAHSpencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick7 days
Feb 2, 7:18 PM ESTAreal Flood AdvisoryPAHCaldwell, Calloway, Crittenden, Hopkins, Livingston, Lyon and 3 more117 min
Feb 2, 8:45 PM ESTAreal Flood AdvisoryPAHChristian, Hopkins, Muhlenberg, Todd2 hr
Feb 2, 8:55 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementPAHChristian, Muhlenberg, Todd50 min
Feb 2, 11:15 PM ESTRiver Flood WarningPAHChristian, Trigg11 hr
Feb 2, 11:35 PM ESTRiver Flood WarningPAHChristian, Trigg8 hr
Feb 3, 10:28 AM ESTRiver Flood WarningPAHMuhlenberg5 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.