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Flash Flood Warning 46, NWS Paducah, KY

June 29, 2020Gallatin County, White County, Illinois

NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 29, 2020, 9:22 PM CDT for Gallatin County, White County, Illinois. It was in force for 2 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: Jun 29, 2020, 9:22 PM CDT (02:22 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 2020, 11:24 PM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Gallatin County, IL, White County, IL

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 245 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: 64 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -200 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1512 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jun 29, 6:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 6:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 29, 8:54 PM CDT, 28 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 29, 4:08 PM CDT, 5 hours 14 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 29, 5:46 PM CDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 29, 5:49 PM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 29, 7:16 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 29, 7:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 29, 8:45 PM CDT, 37 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
Jun 29, 7:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Trigg	49 min
Jun 30, 3:26 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	PAH	Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more	40 hr
Jun 30, 8:20 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Hopkins	3 hr
Jun 30, 1:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Graves	34 min
Jun 30, 2:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Ballard	52 min
Jun 30, 2:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Ballard, McCracken	42 min
Jun 30, 2:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	McCracken	34 min
Jun 30, 3:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	McCracken	113 min
Jun 30, 3:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	McCracken, Marshall	50 min
Jun 30, 3:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Graves, Marshall	48 min
Jun 30, 4:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Henderson, Union	4 hr
Jun 30, 4:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Webster	41 min
Jun 30, 4:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Ballard	44 min
Jun 30, 5:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ballard, Carlisle	15 min
Jun 30, 5:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Daviess, Henderson, McLean	2 hr
Jun 30, 5:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Daviess	43 min
Jun 30, 5:50 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Ballard	2 hr
Jun 30, 6:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Ballard	32 min
Jun 30, 6:42 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman	2 hr
Jun 30, 6:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Fulton	42 min
Jun 29, 7:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Hardin	44 min
Jun 29, 9:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Wabash	47 min
Jun 30, 4:39 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Jackson, Johnson, Pope, Saline, Union, Williamson	6 hr
Jun 30, 5:05 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Hamilton	3 hr
Jun 30, 5:50 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Franklin, Hamilton, Perry	4 hr
Jun 30, 11:15 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Wayne	112 min
Jun 30, 1:46 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Alexander, Johnson, Union	6 hr
Jun 30, 1:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Johnson	33 min
Jun 30, 2:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Jackson, Perry	46 min
Jun 30, 3:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Perry	3 hr
Jun 30, 3:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Franklin, Hamilton, White	5 hr
Jun 30, 4:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Jackson	77 min
Jun 30, 4:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Jackson, Union	49 min
Jun 30, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jackson, Union	50 min
Jun 30, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Alexander, Pulaski, Union	48 min
Jun 30, 4:54 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Cape Girardeau	3 hr
Jun 30, 4:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Perry	38 min
Jun 30, 5:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Cape Girardeau	2 hr
Jun 30, 6:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Bollinger, Wayne	42 min
Jun 30, 6:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Wayne	67 min
Jun 30, 6:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	New Madrid	40 min
Jun 30, 6:36 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	PAH	Perry	2 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.