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Flash Flood Warning 24, NWS Paducah, KY

April 3, 2025New Madrid County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at Apr 3, 2025, 9:21 PM CDT for New Madrid County, Missouri. 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: Apr 3, 2025, 9:21 PM CDT (02:21 UTC)
Expired: Apr 4, 2025, 12:15 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County New Madrid County, MO

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 198 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 655 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 78 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 634 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 1183 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 7.3

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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 Apr 3, 6:43 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 6:43 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 3, 9:00 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 3, 5:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 3, 6:31 PM CDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 3, 6:36 PM CDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 3, 8:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 3, 9:17 PM CDT, 4 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
Apr 3, 8:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Carlisle	26 min
Apr 3, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Fulton	46 min
Apr 3, 9:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Fulton, Hickman	40 min
Apr 3, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Fulton, Hickman	23 min
Apr 3, 10:05 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman	6 hr
Apr 3, 10:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Marshall	34 min
Apr 3, 10:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Calloway, Livingston, Lyon, Marshall	6 hr
Apr 3, 10:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Carlisle, Hickman	10 hr
Apr 3, 10:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Christian, Hopkins, Muhlenberg, Todd, Trigg	48 min
Apr 3, 11:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Livingston, Lyon, Marshall	11 hr
Apr 3, 11:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Lyon, Marshall	41 min
Apr 3, 11:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Calloway, Christian, Hopkins, Livingston, Lyon and 2 more	51 min
Apr 4, 12:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian, Todd	27 min
Apr 4, 2:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Trigg	20 min
Apr 4, 2:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Christian	30 min
Apr 4, 3:04 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Christian, Muhlenberg, Todd, Trigg	54 hr
Apr 4, 6:54 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	PAH	Christian	9 hr
Apr 4, 6:54 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	PAH	Christian	11 hr
Apr 4, 10:17 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Calloway, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Lyon, Marshall	46 hr
Apr 4, 11:04 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Hopkins, McLean, Muhlenberg	47 hr
Apr 4, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Calloway, Graves, Marshall	20 min
Apr 4, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Calloway, Marshall, Trigg	45 min
Apr 4, 3:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Calloway, Trigg	36 min
Apr 4, 4:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Christian, Trigg	43 min
Apr 4, 4:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Muhlenberg	49 min
Apr 4, 4:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Christian	38 min
Apr 4, 6:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Muhlenberg	35 min
Apr 3, 7:53 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Butler, Mississippi, New Madrid, Stoddard	3 hr
Apr 3, 9:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	New Madrid	33 min
Apr 4, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Butler, Ripley	47 min
Apr 4, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Butler, Carter, Ripley, Wayne	50 min
Apr 4, 6:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Butler, Ripley	28 min
Apr 4, 6:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Carter	6 hr
Apr 4, 6:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Butler	31 min
Apr 4, 6:50 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Wayne	20 hr
Apr 4, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Butler, Stoddard, Wayne	39 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.