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River Flood Warning 1, NWS Paducah, KY

February 10, 2018Muhlenberg County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this river flood warning at Feb 10, 2018, 7:09 PM CST for Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. It took effect at Feb 11, 2018, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 28 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 10, 2018, 7:09 PM CST (01:09 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 11, 2018, 6:00 PM CST
Expired
Mar 11, 2018, 7:08 AM CDT
In force
28 days
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 01:09 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 river

Written for the forecast point Green River (KY) at Paradise (PRDK2). The gauge peaked at 29.76 ft at Feb 28, 2018, 9:00 AM CST.

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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 Feb 10, 6:52 PM CST, 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 10, 6:52 PM CST, 17 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 10, 10:09 AM CST, 9 hours before
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Paducah KY
1009 AM CST Sat Feb 10 2018

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1009 AM CST Sat Feb 10 2018

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of southern
Illinois, southwest Indiana, western Kentucky, and southeast
Missouri.

.DAY ONE...Today and Tonight

Light rain is forecast to change to light freezing rain from
northwest to southeast with falling temperatures tonight, for all
but the Pennyrile region of western Kentucky. Ice accumulation will
range from just a few hundredths of an inch along the Ohio river
counties, upwards to around a tenth of an inch in our northwest most
counties.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday

Weekend Rainfall totals in the southern Pennyrile region will
average around an inch and a half, with locally higher totals
approaching one and three quarters of an inch closer to the
Tennessee border.

There is a chance of a wintry mix of precipitation as the
precipitation winds down to an end Sunday night. Minor
accumulations of a few hundredths of an inch of ice, followed by a
dusting of snowfall, is a possibility, before the precipitation
ends in entirety.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter reports are appreciated.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Feb 10, 3:10 PM CST, 3 hours 59 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.