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Flash Flood Warning 66, NWS Paducah, KY

July 19, 2023Calloway County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 19, 2023, 1:42 PM CDT for Calloway County, 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 19, 2023, 1:42 PM CDT (18:42 UTC)
Expired: Jul 19, 2023, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Calloway County, KY

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 250 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: 1906 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -320 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1326 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 130 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 Jul 19, 12:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 12:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 19, 10:08 AM CDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 19, 12:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 19, 12:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 19, 12:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 19, 12:54 PM CDT, 48 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 19, 1:33 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 19, 1:36 PM CDT, 6 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
Jul 18, 10:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Ballard	50 min
Jul 18, 10:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Carlisle, Hickman	46 min
Jul 18, 11:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ballard, Carlisle	45 min
Jul 19, 12:37 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Carlisle	6 hr
Jul 19, 12:59 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Graves, Hickman	6 hr
Jul 19, 1:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Graves	50 min
Jul 19, 1:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Graves	26 min
Jul 19, 1:36 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning EmergencyConsiderable damage threat	PAH	Carlisle, Graves, Hickman	10 hr
Jul 19, 1:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Calloway, Graves	35 min
Jul 19, 2:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Carlisle	37 min
Jul 19, 2:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Graves	43 min
Jul 19, 3:06 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Ballard	9 hr
Jul 19, 3:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Calloway, Graves	48 min
Jul 19, 3:28 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning EmergencyConsiderable damage threat	PAH	Ballard, Carlisle, Graves	9 hr
Jul 19, 3:32 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	PAH	Fulton	9 hr
Jul 19, 3:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Ballard, Graves	46 min
Jul 19, 4:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Calloway, Graves	44 min
Jul 19, 4:32 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Calloway	4 hr
Jul 19, 4:56 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Fulton, Hickman	6 hr
Jul 19, 5:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Crittenden, Livingston, Lyon, Marshall	29 min
Jul 19, 5:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Lyon, Marshall	38 min
Jul 19, 5:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Calloway, Marshall, Trigg	46 min
Jul 19, 7:01 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Graves, McCracken	6 hr
Jul 19, 7:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ballard, Livingston, McCracken	23 min
Jul 19, 7:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Carlisle, Graves, Hickman	38 min
Jul 19, 7:54 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning EmergencyCatastrophic damage threat	PAH	Ballard, Carlisle, Graves, Hickman	5 hr
Jul 19, 8:25 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning EmergencyCatastrophic damage threat	PAH	McCracken	5 hr
Jul 19, 8:28 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Carlisle, Fulton, Hickman	6 hr
Jul 19, 8:49 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Calloway	5 hr
Jul 19, 8:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Fulton	32 min
Jul 19, 9:09 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning EmergencyCatastrophic damage threat	PAH	Ballard	4 hr
Jul 19, 9:19 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Marshall	4 hr
Jul 19, 9:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Fulton	37 min
Jul 19, 11:44 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Carlisle, Graves, Hickman	5 hr
Jul 19, 11:49 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Ballard	5 hr
Jul 19, 12:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Ballard, Graves, McCracken	5 hr
Jul 19, 2:02 PM CDT	Flood Watch	PAH	Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 9 more	24 hr
Jul 18, 11:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Alexander, Pulaski	48 min
Jul 19, 3:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Johnson	40 min
Jul 19, 4:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Johnson, Pope, Williamson	45 min
Jul 19, 4:49 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Johnson, Pope, Williamson	6 hr
Jul 19, 5:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jackson, Perry	25 min
Jul 19, 5:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jackson, Union, Williamson	30 min
Jul 19, 6:21 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Williamson	4 hr
Jul 19, 6:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Alexander, Jackson, Pulaski, Union	42 min
Jul 19, 7:37 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Johnson, Pope	3 hr
Jul 19, 7:41 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Alexander, Jackson, Union	6 hr
Jul 19, 10:42 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Johnson	3 hr
Jul 19, 6:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Perry	50 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.