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Flash Flood Warning 80, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 27, 2026, 12:56 AM CDT for Edwards County, Wabash 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
- Jul 27, 2026, 12:56 AM CDT (05:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2026, 4:22 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Edwards County, IL, Wabash County, IL
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 5988 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 663 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 6.4
- Supercell composite
- 28.4
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Christian, Hopkins, McLean, Muhlenberg, Todd and 1 more | 39 min |
| Jul 26, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Crittenden, Livingston, Union | 41 min |
| Jul 26, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Christian, Hopkins, Muhlenberg, Todd | 65 min |
| Jul 26, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Crittenden, Livingston, Lyon, Marshall, Trigg | 43 min |
| Jul 26, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Calloway, Christian, Livingston, Lyon, Marshall and 1 more | 54 min |
| Jul 26, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Crittenden, Livingston | 47 min |
| Jul 26, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian, Todd | 30 min |
| Jul 26, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Livingston | 48 min |
| Jul 26, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Livingston, McCracken, Marshall | 40 min |
| Jul 26, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Graves, McCracken, Marshall | 46 min |
| Jul 26, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Calloway, Graves | 32 min |
| Jul 26, 11:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Henderson | 5 hr |
| Jul 26, 11:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Union | 5 hr |
| Jul 27, 12:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Webster | 4 hr |
| Jul 27, 12:27 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Caldwell, Christian, Crittenden, Hopkins, Lyon, Trigg and 1 more | 63 min |
| Jul 27, 12:32 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | PAH | Caldwell, Christian, Daviess, Henderson, Hopkins, McLean and 4 more | 42 hr |
| Jul 27, 2:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Crittenden, Union | 35 min |
| Jul 27, 2:46 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Livingston | 44 min |
| Jul 27, 2:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Crittenden, Union | 119 min |
| Jul 27, 3:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Livingston | 20 min |
| Jul 26, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Wabash | 52 min |
| Jul 26, 11:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Wabash | 33 min |
| Jul 27, 1:13 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Edwards | 62 min |
| Jul 27, 1:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Gallatin, Hamilton, Saline, White | 47 min |
| Jul 27, 4:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Wayne | 41 min |
| Jul 27, 4:16 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Wayne | 119 min |
| Jul 27, 4:56 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Hamilton | 56 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.