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River Flood Warning 29, NWS Paducah, KY

March 14, 2016Muhlenberg County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this river flood warning at Mar 14, 2016, 9:54 AM CDT for Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. It took effect at Mar 15, 2016, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 43 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 14, 2016, 9:54 AM CDT (14:54 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 15, 2016, 10:00 AM CDT
Expired: Mar 17, 2016, 4:59 AM CDT
In force: 43 hr
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Muhlenberg County, KY

The radar

The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:58 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 river

Written for the forecast point Green River (KY) at Paradise (PRDK2).

Action stage: 378 ft
Minor stage: 380 ft
Moderate stage: 386 ft
Major stage: 400 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03316500, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river flood warning 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 river flood warning went out at Mar 13, 3:02 PM CDT, 18 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 13, 3:02 PM CDT, 18 hours 52 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 14, 12:55 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Calloway, Fulton, Graves, Hickman	3 hr
Mar 14, 2:58 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Lyon, Marshall, Trigg	2 hr
Mar 14, 3:19 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Caldwell, Christian, Hopkins, Muhlenberg, Todd	3 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 2016 Every river 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.