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Flash Flood Warning 55, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 8, 2026, 4:33 PM CDT for Calloway County, Kentucky. It was in force for 116 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 2026, 4:33 PM CDT (21:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2026, 6:29 PM CDT
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Calloway County, KY
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 353 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 541 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 7:04 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Daviess | 116 min |
| Jul 7, 8:32 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Muhlenberg | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 9:12 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Hopkins | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 10:34 AM CDT | Flood Watch | PAH | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more | 4 days |
| Jul 8, 2:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | McCracken | 34 min |
| Jul 8, 2:20 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | McCracken | 103 min |
| Jul 8, 2:54 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Ballard | 62 min |
| Jul 8, 3:11 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Graves | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 3:38 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle | 113 min |
| Jul 8, 3:49 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Calloway, Marshall | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 3:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Calloway | 52 min |
| Jul 8, 4:03 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Christian, Trigg | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 4:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Christian | 49 min |
| Jul 8, 4:48 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Calloway, Graves | 85 min |
| Jul 8, 5:14 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Christian | 86 min |
| Jul 7, 8:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Jackson | 30 min |
| Jul 7, 8:22 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Jackson, Perry | 109 min |
| Jul 8, 12:06 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Franklin, Jefferson, Perry | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 11:48 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Johnson, Pope, Saline, Williamson | 67 min |
| Jul 8, 3:37 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Jackson | 98 min |
| Jul 8, 3:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Franklin | 29 min |
| Jul 8, 4:10 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Franklin, Perry | 2 hr |
| Jul 7, 8:04 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Bollinger | 116 min |
| Jul 7, 9:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Bollinger | 2 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.