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Flash Flood Watch 1, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood watch at Feb 28, 2017, 2:49 PM CST for 13 counties in Kentucky; 8 counties in Illinois. It took effect at Feb 28, 2017, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 28, 2017, 2:49 PM CST (20:49 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 28, 2017, 6:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Mar 1, 2017, 8:32 AM CST
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Flood severity
- None
All 21 counties
Gallatin County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Johnson County, IL, Massac County, IL, Pope County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Saline County, IL, White County, IL, Ballard County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Lyon County, KY, McCracken County, KY, McLean County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Union County, KY, Webster County, KY
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 513 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 387 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 359 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Feb 28, 12:25 PM CST, 2 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 28, 12:25 PM CST, 2 hours 24 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 3:20 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Daviess | 25 min |
| Feb 28, 3:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Daviess | 10 min |
| Feb 28, 5:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Henderson, Union, Webster | 15 min |
| Feb 28, 2:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Jackson, Jefferson, Perry | 12 min |
| Feb 28, 3:12 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Jefferson | 48 min |
| Feb 28, 2:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Perry | 16 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in Kentucky, 2017Flash Flood Watches in Illinois, 2017Every flash flood watch in 2017
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.