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Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Paducah, KY

June 26, 2026Scott County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 26, 2026, 3:03 PM CDT for Scott County, Missouri. 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: Jun 26, 2026, 3:03 PM CDT (20:03 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2026, 7:19 PM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Scott County, MO

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 284 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: 433 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 912 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 49 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 Jun 26, 2:36 PM CDT, 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 2:36 PM CDT, 27 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 26, 2:19 PM CDT, 44 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 26, 9:15 AM CDT, 5 hours 48 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 26, 9:44 AM CDT, 5 hours 19 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 26, 10:10 AM CDT, 4 hours 53 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
Jun 26, 4:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ballard, Carlisle, Graves, Hickman, McCracken	18 min
Jun 26, 6:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Caldwell, Christian, Trigg	57 min
Jun 26, 6:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Henderson, Hopkins, McLean, Union, Webster	52 min
Jun 26, 3:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ballard	52 min
Jun 26, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ballard, Carlisle	34 min
Jun 26, 4:10 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	McCracken	3 hr
Jun 26, 4:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Ballard	23 min
Jun 26, 5:05 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Ballard	2 hr
Jun 25, 8:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Johnson	36 min
Jun 25, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Johnson	24 min
Jun 25, 9:53 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Jackson, Perry	5 hr
Jun 25, 10:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Jackson	52 min
Jun 26, 4:52 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Johnson, Union	3 hr
Jun 26, 3:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Alexander	4 hr
Jun 26, 12:47 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Ripley	5 hr
Jun 26, 1:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Butler	46 min
Jun 26, 1:52 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Butler	4 hr
Jun 26, 9:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Ripley	30 min
Jun 26, 11:03 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Ripley	22 min
Jun 26, 11:25 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Butler, Carter, Ripley	3 hr
Jun 26, 12:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Butler	2 hr
Jun 26, 2:13 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Bollinger	3 hr
Jun 26, 2:37 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Cape Girardeau	5 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.