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Flash Flood Watch 4, NWS Paducah, KY

May 27, 2017Carter County, Ripley County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood watch at May 27, 2017, 11:17 AM CDT for Carter County, Ripley County, Missouri. It took effect at May 27, 2017, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 14 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 27, 2017, 11:17 AM CDT (16:17 UTC)
In effect from: May 27, 2017, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired: May 28, 2017, 2:36 AM CDT
In force: 14 hr
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Flood severity: None

Counties Carter County, MO, Ripley County, MO

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 187 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KBYH), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 235 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2792 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 535 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 3.5

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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, 1:48 AM CDT, 9 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 1:48 AM CDT, 9 hours 29 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 27, 9:00 AM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 27, 5:53 AM CDT, 5 hours 24 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
May 27, 3:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ballard, Carlisle	39 min
May 27, 3:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Calloway	22 min
May 27, 3:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Calloway, Trigg	34 min
May 27, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Graves, McCracken	42 min
May 27, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian, Trigg	44 min
May 27, 4:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Crittenden, Livingston	39 min
May 27, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ballard, Carlisle	36 min
May 27, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian, Todd	23 min
May 27, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Crittenden, Hopkins, Livingston, Lyon	32 min
May 27, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Calloway, Marshall, Trigg	31 min
May 27, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Muhlenberg	43 min
May 27, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Christian, Hopkins, Lyon, Muhlenberg, Trigg	39 min
May 27, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Hopkins, McLean, Muhlenberg, Webster	39 min
May 27, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ballard, Carlisle	38 min
May 27, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian, Muhlenberg, Todd	45 min
May 27, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian, Hopkins, Muhlenberg	16 min
May 27, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Carlisle, Fulton, Hickman	44 min
May 27, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ballard, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Graves, Livingston and 3 more	65 min
May 27, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Christian, Crittenden, Hopkins, Lyon, McLean and 5 more	65 min
May 27, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Carlisle, Fulton, Hickman	30 min
May 27, 2:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Hamilton	28 min
May 27, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jackson	46 min
May 27, 3:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Hamilton, Wayne, White	18 min
May 27, 3:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	White	28 min
May 27, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jackson, Union, Williamson	41 min
May 27, 3:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jefferson	37 min
May 27, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Johnson, Pope, Saline, Union, Williamson	44 min
May 27, 4:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Wabash	14 min
May 27, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Massac, Pope	46 min
May 27, 4:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Massac, Pope	16 min
May 27, 4:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Ripley	50 min
May 27, 4:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ripley	41 min
May 27, 5:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Butler, Ripley	38 min
May 27, 5:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	New Madrid	67 min
May 27, 2:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Perry	36 min
May 27, 3:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Mississippi, New Madrid, Scott, Stoddard	33 min
May 27, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Scott	35 min
May 27, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Wayne	48 min
May 27, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Mississippi, Scott, Stoddard	38 min
May 27, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Wayne	33 min
May 27, 4:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Wayne	41 min
May 27, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Perry, Scott, Stoddard	50 min
May 27, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Mississippi, Scott, Stoddard	46 min
May 27, 5:26 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Mississippi, Scott, Stoddard, Wayne	3 hr

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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.