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Flash Flood Warning 52, NWS Paducah, KY

April 5, 20255 counties in Illinois

NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at Apr 5, 2025, 3:32 PM CDT for 5 counties in Illinois. It was in force for 6 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 5, 2025, 3:32 PM CDT (20:32 UTC)
Expired: Apr 5, 2025, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Edwards County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Saline County, IL, Wabash County, IL, White County, IL

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:33 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 396 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: 26 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -150 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 816 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 216 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.9

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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 5, 3:32 PM CDT, 0 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 5, 3:32 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 5, 2:49 PM CDT, 43 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 5, 11:27 AM CDT, 4 hours 5 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 5, 11:29 AM CDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 5, 12:34 PM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 5, 2:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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Local storm report, Apr 5, 2:52 PM CDT, 40 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 4, 10:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Henderson, Union	44 min
Apr 4, 10:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Ballard	39 min
Apr 4, 10:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ballard, McCracken	42 min
Apr 4, 10:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Ballard, McCracken	6 hr
Apr 4, 11:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Livingston, Lyon	43 min
Apr 4, 11:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Daviess	34 min
Apr 4, 11:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Crittenden, Livingston	34 min
Apr 4, 11:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Henderson, Union	22 hr
Apr 4, 11:44 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Carlisle	7 hr
Apr 5, 12:29 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Carlisle	21 hr
Apr 5, 3:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Carlisle, Fulton, Hickman	47 min
Apr 5, 3:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Calloway, Graves, Marshall	61 min
Apr 5, 5:50 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	PAH	Christian	37 hr
Apr 5, 5:50 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	PAH	Christian	10 hr
Apr 5, 5:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Christian, Muhlenberg, Todd, Trigg	46 min
Apr 5, 7:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Todd	11 min
Apr 5, 2:46 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Daviess	7 hr
Apr 5, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian, Todd	35 min
Apr 5, 5:02 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	PAH	Ballard	41 hr
Apr 5, 5:07 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	PAH	Crittenden, Livingston, McCracken, Webster	42 hr
Apr 4, 7:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Jefferson, Perry, Wayne	26 hr
Apr 4, 7:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Alexander, Union	49 min
Apr 4, 7:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	PAH	Jackson, Union	32 min
Apr 4, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Alexander	41 min
Apr 4, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jackson, Union	40 min
Apr 4, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Alexander, Pulaski, Union	45 min
Apr 4, 8:39 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Jackson, Union	24 hr
Apr 4, 8:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Union, Williamson	63 min
Apr 4, 8:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Alexander, Johnson, Massac, Pope, Pulaski, Union	54 min
Apr 4, 9:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Johnson, Union, Williamson	26 min
Apr 4, 9:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Alexander	24 hr
Apr 4, 9:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Saline, White, Williamson	51 min
Apr 4, 9:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Franklin, Johnson, Pulaski, Williamson	24 hr
Apr 4, 9:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Edwards, Wabash	6 hr
Apr 4, 10:28 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Gallatin, Hamilton, Saline, White	6 hr
Apr 4, 10:36 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Hardin, Massac, Pope	23 hr
Apr 4, 10:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Wabash	38 min
Apr 4, 10:46 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Wabash, White	6 hr
Apr 5, 11:10 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Hamilton	10 hr
Apr 4, 7:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Scott, Stoddard, Wayne	51 min
Apr 4, 7:10 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Butler, Ripley	37 hr
Apr 4, 7:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning EmergencyCatastrophic damage threat	PAH	Carter	25 hr
Apr 4, 7:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Carter, Ripley	40 min
Apr 4, 7:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Perry	11 hr
Apr 4, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Butler, Stoddard, Wayne	42 min
Apr 4, 8:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Cape Girardeau	25 hr
Apr 4, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ripley	43 min
Apr 4, 8:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Bollinger, Butler, Stoddard, Wayne	39 min
Apr 4, 8:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Butler, Carter, Ripley	18 min
Apr 4, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Butler, Carter, Ripley, Stoddard, Wayne	21 min
Apr 4, 9:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Cape Girardeau, New Madrid, Scott, Stoddard	44 min
Apr 4, 9:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning EmergencyCatastrophic damage threat	PAH	Cape Girardeau	6 hr
Apr 4, 9:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Mississippi, New Madrid, Scott	47 min
Apr 5, 4:10 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Perry, Wayne	25 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.