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Flash Flood Warning 70, NWS Paducah, KY

June 28, 2025Christian County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 2025, 12:49 PM CDT for Christian 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
Jun 28, 2025, 12:49 PM CDT (17:49 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 2025, 3:45 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Christian County, KY

The radar

The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:48 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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 116 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 2025-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1469 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 2025-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1469 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
769 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 10:29 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementPAHMcCracken46 min
Jun 28, 10:40 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPAHBallard, McCracken3 hr
Jun 28, 12:31 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPAHChristian18 min
Jun 28, 1:16 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPAHCalloway3 hr
Jun 28, 6:39 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementPAHFranklin21 min
Jun 28, 6:44 PM CDTFlood WatchPAHCarter, Ripley18 hr

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.