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Flash Flood Warning 58, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 21, 2019, 9:34 PM CDT for Jefferson County, Wayne County, Illinois. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 21, 2019, 9:34 PM CDT (02:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 2019, 3:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Jefferson County, IL, Wayne County, IL
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:36 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 nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 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
- 1002 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 880 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 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 warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 21, 9:06 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 5:31 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Calloway, Christian, Todd, Trigg | 59 min |
| Aug 22, 11:20 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Ballard | 55 min |
| Aug 22, 12:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle, Crittenden, Fulton, Hickman, Livingston and 1 more | 58 min |
| Aug 22, 12:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carlisle, Graves | 36 min |
| Aug 22, 1:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Calloway, Graves, Hickman, Livingston, Lyon, Marshall | 51 min |
| Aug 21, 9:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Jefferson, Wayne | 39 min |
| Aug 21, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Jefferson, Wayne | 31 min |
| Aug 21, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Wayne | 46 min |
| Aug 21, 10:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Edwards, Wabash, Wayne | 43 min |
| Aug 21, 11:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Edwards, Wabash, White | 40 min |
| Aug 21, 11:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Wabash | 46 min |
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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.