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Areal Flood Warning 10, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this areal flood warning at Jul 18, 2021, 12:57 PM CDT for 4 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 3 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
- Jul 18, 2021, 12:57 PM CDT (17:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 2021, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Calloway County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Hickman County, KY
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:58 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 949 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 588 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 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 areal 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 areal flood warning went out at Jul 18, 12:32 PM CDT, 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 12:32 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Paducah KY 426 AM CDT Sun Jul 18 2021 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-191000- Jefferson-Wayne IL-Edwards-Wabash-Perry IL-Franklin-Hamilton- White-Jackson-Williamson-Saline-Gallatin-Union-Johnson-Pope- Hardin-Alexander-Pulaski-Massac-Gibson-Pike-Posey-Vanderburgh- Warrick-Spencer-Fulton-Hickman-Carlisle-Ballard-McCracken-Graves- Livingston-Marshall-Calloway-Crittenden-Lyon-Trigg-Caldwell- Union KY-Webster-Hopkins-Christian-Henderson-Daviess-McLean- Muhlenberg-Todd-Perry MO-Bollinger-Cape Girardeau-Wayne MO-Carter- Ripley-Butler-Stoddard-Scott-Mississippi-New Madrid- 426 AM CDT Sun Jul 18 2021 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of southern Illinois, southwestern Indiana, western Kentucky, and southeastern Missouri. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight Scattered thunderstorms can be expected today across much of the region, except for areas north of I-64 where they are forecast to be more isolated. Thunderstorms should become most common over western Kentucky in the afternoon. Coverage of thunderstorms will gradually diminish after nightfall, especially after midnight. Lightning and locally heavy rainfall will be the main hazards. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday A possibility of isolated thunderstorms exists Monday afternoon near the Arkansas and Tennessee state lines. A slight chance of afternoon thunderstorms is forecast over southeastern Missouri and western Kentucky Thursday and the entire region Friday and Saturday. Locally heavy rainfall and lightning will be the primary concerns. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not anticipated.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 18, 12:47 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 8:57 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle | 2 hr |
| Jul 18, 9:44 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Carlisle, McCracken | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 10:15 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Livingston | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 10:58 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Fulton, Graves, Hickman | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 11:05 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle | 70 min |
| Jul 18, 11:24 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Calloway, Livingston, Marshall | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 11:49 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Caldwell, Lyon, Trigg | 73 min |
| Jul 18, 12:25 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | PAH | McCracken | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 1:02 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Lyon, Trigg | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 1:18 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Christian, Crittenden, Hopkins, Webster | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 2:07 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Todd | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 2:57 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Henderson, Union | 2 hr |
| Jul 18, 6:16 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Alexander | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 2:19 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Alexander | 116 min |
| Jul 18, 2:50 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Hamilton, Saline | 2 hr |
| Jul 18, 4:53 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Edwards, Wabash | 112 min |
| Jul 18, 3:03 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Perry | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 4:12 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | New Madrid | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 4:41 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Cape Girardeau, Perry | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 6:26 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Bollinger | 5 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.