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Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Paducah, KY

May 23, 2024Daviess County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at May 23, 2024, 4:35 PM CDT for Daviess 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
May 23, 2024, 4:35 PM CDT (21:35 UTC)
Expired
May 23, 2024, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Daviess County, KY

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:35 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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 183 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2024-05-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1022 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2024-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 161 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1022 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-67 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
857 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
161 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
176 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.7

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 23, 12:23 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementPAHCalloway37 min
May 23, 3:39 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementPAHWebster51 min
May 23, 4:03 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementPAHHenderson42 min
May 23, 4:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHDaviess, Henderson, McLean, Webster47 min
May 23, 4:38 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementPAHDaviess52 min
May 23, 3:36 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPAHHopkins114 min
May 23, 4:01 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementPAHPerry44 min
May 23, 4:07 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementPAHPerry38 min
May 23, 4:45 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementPAHWilliamson45 min
May 23, 5:27 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementPAHSaline33 min
May 23, 5:59 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementPAHGallatin46 min
May 23, 11:26 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementPAHPerry34 min
May 23, 3:03 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementPAHPerry27 min
May 23, 3:28 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementPAHPerry47 min
May 23, 3:36 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementPAHPerry39 min
May 23, 10:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHBollinger20 min

Nearby

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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.