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Flash Flood Warning 60, NWS Paducah, KY

August 23, 2019Butler County, Ripley County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 23, 2019, 4:26 AM CDT for Butler County, Ripley County, Missouri. It was in force for 4 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 23, 2019, 4:26 AM CDT (09:26 UTC)
Expired
Aug 23, 2019, 8:44 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Butler County, MO, Ripley County, MO

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 283 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2019-08-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 534 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2019-08-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 13 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
534 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
924 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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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.

NWS Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Aug 22, 6:41 PM CDT, 9 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 22, 6:41 PM CDT, 9 hours 45 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 23, 1:44 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPAHFulton, Hickman3 hr
Aug 23, 2:27 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPAHGraves, Marshall3 hr
Aug 23, 4:00 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHFulton5 hr
Aug 23, 12:32 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPAHButler, New Madrid, Ripley, Stoddard3 hr
Aug 23, 3:36 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPAHButler, New Madrid, Ripley, Stoddard3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2019Every flash flood warning in 2019

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.