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River Flood Warning 98, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this river flood warning at Dec 25, 2018, 8:37 AM CST for Union County, Kentucky. It took effect at Dec 26, 2018, 10:11 AM CST. It was in force for 16 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 25, 2018, 8:37 AM CST (14:37 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 26, 2018, 10:11 AM CST
- Expired
- Jan 11, 2019, 8:10 PM CST
- In force
- 16 days
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Union County, KY
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Ohio River at J.T. Myers Lock and Dam (UNWK2). The gauge peaked at 39.78 ft at Jan 8, 2019, 11:00 AM CST.
- Action stage
- 33 ft
- Minor stage
- 37 ft
- Moderate stage
- 49 ft
- Major stage
- 60 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03322420, 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 Dec 25, 6:03 AM CST, 2 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 25, 6:03 AM CST, 2 hours 34 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.