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River Flood Warning 36, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this river flood warning at May 31, 2016, 10:45 AM CDT for Alexander County, Jackson County, Union County, Illinois; Cape Girardeau County, Perry County, Scott County, Missouri. It took effect at Jun 1, 2016, 11:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 66 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 2016, 10:45 AM CDT (15:45 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 1, 2016, 11:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2016, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 66 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
Counties Alexander County, IL, Jackson County, IL, Union County, IL, Cape Girardeau County, MO, Perry County, MO, Scott County, MO
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Mississippi River at Cape Girardeau (CPGM7).
- Action stage
- 29 ft
- Minor stage
- 32 ft
- Moderate stage
- 37 ft
- Major stage
- 42 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07020850, 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 May 31, 3:31 AM CDT, 7 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 31, 3:31 AM CDT, 7 hours 14 minutes before
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.