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Flash Flood Watch 6, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood watch at May 27, 2016, 1:49 PM CDT for 6 counties in Kentucky; 9 counties in Illinois; 11 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 2016, 1:49 PM CDT (18:49 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2016, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Flood severity
- None
All 26 counties
Alexander County, IL, Jackson County, IL, Johnson County, IL, Massac County, IL, Perry County, IL, Pope County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Union County, IL, Williamson County, IL, Ballard County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Hickman County, KY, McCracken County, KY, Bollinger County, MO, Butler County, MO, Cape Girardeau County, MO, Carter County, MO, Mississippi County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Perry County, MO, Ripley County, MO, Scott County, MO, Stoddard County, MO, Wayne County, MO
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:52 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
Little Rock, AR (KBYH), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 261 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
- 202 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 737 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 flash flood watch went out at May 27, 12:57 PM CDT, 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 27, 12:57 PM CDT, 52 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 27, 3:12 AM CDT, 10 hours 37 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 312 AM CDT FRI MAY 27 2016 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-281000- JEFFERSON-WAYNE IL-EDWARDS-WABASH-PERRY IL-FRANKLIN-HAMILTON- WHITE-JACKSON-WILLIAMSON-SALINE-GALLATIN-UNION-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- 312 AM CDT FRI MAY 27 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A FEW STRONG STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TODAY AND TONIGHT...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND LIGHTNING WILL BE THE PRIMARY CONCERNS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY ALMOST DAILY CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST FOR ALL OR PART OF THE AREA THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK. HEAVY RAIN AND LIGHTNING SHOULD BE THE PRIMARY STORM HAZARDS. HOWEVER...AN ISOLATED STRONG OR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CANNOT BE RULED OUT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME BUT SPOTTERS SHOULD STAY TUNED FOR ANY UPDATES TO THE FORECAST.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 3:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Alexander, Jackson, Union | 37 min |
| May 27, 4:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Franklin, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Perry, Pulaski and 2 more | 50 min |
| May 27, 5:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Saline, Wayne, Williamson | 39 min |
| May 27, 5:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Edwards, Hamilton, Wabash, Wayne, White | 28 min |
| May 27, 6:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Edwards, Wabash, Wayne | 44 min |
| May 27, 6:48 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Bollinger, Stoddard | 117 min |
| May 27, 7:13 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Scott, Stoddard | 2 hr |
| May 27, 2:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Scott, Stoddard | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.