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Flash Flood Warning 82, NWS Paducah, KY

August 7, 2026Carter County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 7, 2026, 9:43 PM CDT for Carter 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
Aug 7, 2026, 9:43 PM CDT (02:43 UTC)
Expired
Aug 8, 2026, 1:56 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Storm-based polygon
Damage threat
Considerable
Flood severity
None

County Carter County, MO

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 195 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 252 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2026-08-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1186 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2026-08-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 35 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1186 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1361 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
118 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.5

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 8, 2:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHFulton, Graves, Hickman28 min
Aug 8, 2:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementPAHGraves, Hickman48 min
Aug 8, 3:37 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementPAHCarlisle, Hickman, Lyon, Marshall53 min
Aug 8, 4:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementPAHMuhlenberg46 min
Aug 7, 7:41 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementPAHCarter49 min
Aug 7, 8:36 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementPAHWayne39 min

Nearby

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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.