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Flash Flood Warning 44, NWS Paducah, KY

July 5, 2024Fulton County, Hickman County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 2024, 3:47 AM CDT for Fulton County, Hickman County, Kentucky. 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: Jul 5, 2024, 3:47 AM CDT (08:47 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2024, 7:45 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Fulton County, KY, Hickman County, KY

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:48 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

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 395 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: 61 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -207 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1039 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 86 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 4, 5:58 PM CDT, 9 hours 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 5:58 PM CDT, 9 hours 49 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 5, 3:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Hickman	50 min
Jul 5, 4:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian, Trigg	48 min
Jul 5, 5:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Union	49 min
Jul 5, 5:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Henderson	48 min
Jul 5, 3:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jackson	32 min
Jul 5, 4:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Franklin, Williamson	47 min
Jul 5, 4:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Franklin, Hamilton	44 min
Jul 5, 4:36 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Franklin, Jackson, Williamson	3 hr
Jul 5, 1:13 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Carter, Ripley	3 hr
Jul 5, 1:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Wayne	37 min
Jul 5, 1:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Butler, Ripley, Wayne	39 min
Jul 5, 1:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Bollinger	31 min
Jul 5, 2:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Bollinger, New Madrid, Scott, Stoddard	41 min
Jul 5, 2:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Scott, Stoddard	36 min
Jul 5, 2:47 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Ripley, Stoddard and 1 more	3 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.