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Flash Flood Warning 24, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 26, 2026, 4:10 PM CDT for McCracken County, Kentucky; Pulaski County, Illinois. 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 26, 2026, 4:10 PM CDT (21:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2026, 7:14 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Pulaski County, IL, McCracken County, KY
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:10 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 235 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.
- 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
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, 1 hour 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 2:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
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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, 4:17 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 |
| Jun 26, 3:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Scott | 4 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.