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Flash Flood Warning 31, NWS Paducah, KY

June 27, 2026Edwards County, Wabash County, White County, Illinois

NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 27, 2026, 7:59 AM CDT for Edwards County, Wabash County, White County, Illinois. It was in force for 5 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 27, 2026, 7:59 AM CDT (12:59 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2026, 1:00 PM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Edwards County, IL, Wabash County, IL, White County, IL

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 210 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: 255 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 464 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 123 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 160 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.5

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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 27, 6:13 AM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 6:13 AM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 27, 7:25 AM CDT, 34 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 27, 9:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Daviess	38 min
Jun 27, 9:47 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Daviess	4 hr
Jun 27, 11:00 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	PAH	Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more	33 hr
Jun 27, 11:00 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Watch	PAH	Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more	24 hr
Jun 27, 12:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ballard, Carlisle, Graves, McCracken	46 min
Jun 27, 1:18 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	McCracken	3 hr
Jun 27, 1:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Crittenden, Livingston	39 min
Jun 27, 2:00 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Crittenden, Livingston	84 min
Jun 27, 2:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Crittenden, Hopkins, Union, Webster	42 min
Jun 27, 2:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Henderson, Union	48 min
Jun 27, 2:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Henderson, Hopkins, McLean, Webster	44 min
Jun 27, 2:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Henderson, Union	49 min
Jun 27, 3:04 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Henderson	37 min
Jun 27, 3:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Daviess, McLean	41 min
Jun 27, 3:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Daviess, Henderson	44 min
Jun 27, 3:21 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Daviess	3 hr
Jun 27, 4:08 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Ballard, McCracken	5 hr
Jun 27, 4:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Muhlenberg	21 min
Jun 27, 5:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	McCracken	19 min
Jun 27, 5:21 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Muhlenberg	114 min
Jun 27, 5:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Livingston, Lyon, McCracken, Marshall	14 min
Jun 27, 5:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	McCracken	26 min
Jun 27, 5:49 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	McLean	86 min
Jun 27, 5:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Livingston, Marshall	26 min
Jun 27, 5:55 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Livingston	2 hr
Jun 27, 6:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	McCracken	29 min
Jun 27, 6:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Livingston, Lyon, Marshall	35 min
Jun 27, 6:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Livingston	77 min
Jun 27, 6:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Lyon	30 min
Jun 27, 6:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Trigg	35 min
Jun 26, 11:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Wabash	8 hr
Jun 27, 12:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Alexander, Union	39 min
Jun 27, 12:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Alexander, Union	2 hr
Jun 27, 12:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Alexander, Pulaski, Union	41 min
Jun 27, 1:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Wabash	41 min
Jun 27, 1:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Edwards, Jefferson, Wabash, Wayne	4 hr
Jun 27, 1:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Edwards, Wayne	51 min
Jun 27, 1:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Wabash	23 min
Jun 27, 2:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Edwards, Wabash, Wayne, White	45 min
Jun 27, 2:17 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Wayne	3 hr
Jun 27, 2:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Edwards, Wabash	6 hr
Jun 27, 3:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	White	3 hr
Jun 27, 11:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Bollinger, Cape Girardeau	52 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.