1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 22, 2:15 AM CST, 10 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 315 AM CDT SUN JUL 22 2001 POPS CONTINUE TO BE A CONCERN FOR THIS FORECAST...BUT EXTREME HEAT AND HUMIDITY MUST ALSO BE DEALT WITH. DENSE FOG HAS NOT DEVELOPED YET AND MID AND UPPER-LEVEL CLOUD COVER SHOULD HELP TO HINDER WIDESPREAD DEVELOPMENT LATER THIS MORNING. WILL WAIT TO LAST MINUTE TO DECIDE WHETHER OR NOT TO INCLUDE A MENTION OF PATCHY DENSE FOG IN ANY ZONES...BUT A DENSE FOG ADVISORY SEEMS UNLIKELY AT THIS TIME. THE ETA/MESOETA AND AVN INDICATE SOME CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT IN AN AREA OF WEAK LOW-LEVEL WARM ADVECTION ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND POSSIBLY INTO THE MID-SECTION OF THE FORECAST AREA LATER THIS MORNING. THIS ACTIVITY WOULD SLIDE SOUTH OF THE AREA BY MIDDAY...BUT WITH 700MB TEMPERATURES LESS THAN 10C AND PLENTIFUL LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE...DIURNAL CONVECTION CAN NOT BE RULED OUT. THEREFORE WILL SPREAD CHANCE POPS ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND TAPER THEM TO SLIGHT CHANCE IN THE EASTERN 1/3 OF THE AREA. WILL KEEP A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR TONIGHT TO HANDLE BOTH LINGERING EVENING CONVECTION AND THE POSSIBILITY OF VERY LATE NIGHT CONVECTION. LATE TONIGHT...BY 12Z...THE ETA INDICATES SOME WEAK LOW-LEVEL WARM ADVECTION ACROSS WESTERN HALF OF THE FORECAST AREA. THE WARM ADVECTION INDICATED LATE TONIGHT MAY ALSO LINGER INTO THE MONDAY PERIOD...SO WILL POST LOW CHANCE POPS IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND SLIGHT CHANCE ELSEWHERE...PRIMARILY FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF DIURNAL CONVECTION. THE MODELS ALL BUILD THE RIDGE BACK OVER THE AREA SOMEWHAT ON MONDAY...BUT THE 700MB TEMPERATURES STILL DO NOT LOOK FORBIDDING. A WEAKNESS IN THE RIDGE DEVELOPS ACROSS THE AREA FOR TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY...AND THE AVN INDICATES THAT A SURFACE FRONT MAY BECOME STATIONARY NEAR THE AREA ON WEDNESDAY. CHANCE POPS THROUGH THE EXTENDED SEEM VERY REASONABLE AT THIS TIME. MUCH OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI EXPERIENCED HEAT INDICES AT OR ABOVE THE 105 DEGREE MARK YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AND THIS SHOULD BE THE CASE TODAY AND MONDAY...AT LEAST. LOWS TONIGHT WILL LIKELY BE IN THE MID 70S WHICH WILL RESULT IN MINIMUM HEAT INDICES AROUND 80. THEREFORE A HEAT ADVISORY WILL BE ISSUED FOR THE WESTERN 2/3 OF THE AREA TODAY THROUGH MONDAY. CONDITIONS ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS AND WESTERN KENTUCKY WILL BE BORDER-LINE...BUT CLOSE ENOUGH TO WARRANT THE ADVISORY. MOS TEMPERATURE GUIDANCE SEEMS TO BE PRETTY CLOSE WITH THE ONE EXCEPTION OF THE FWC/S UPPER 90S FOR PAH ON MONDAY. THIS SEEMS A BIT TOO WARM GIVEN THE PLENTIFUL BOUNDARY LAYER MOISTURE. WILL THEREFORE SIDE WITH THE COOLER...MORE REASONABLE MAV/FAN NUMBERS. .PAH.;..HEAT ADVISORY TODAY THROUGH MONDAY FOR ALL OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND A PORTION OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS AND WESTERN KENTUCKY. DRS
ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087-100- 107>112-114-221930- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 1112 AM CDT SUN JUL 22 2001 THIS OUTLOOK IS VALID UNTIL 7 AM CDT MONDAY AND INCLUDES SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...WESTERN KENTUCKY...AND SOUTHWEST INDIANA. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE QUAD STATE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND OVERNIGHT. ORGANIZED CONVECTION IS NOT EXPECTED SO THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE WIDELY SCATTERED AND POSSIBLE MOST ANYWHERE IN THE AREA. WEAK UPPER LEVEL ENERGY...A SFC TROF...HEAT...AND HUMIDITY WILL COMBINE TO TAP THE MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS ENTRENCHED OVER THE REGION THEREBY PRODUCING SCATTERED CONVECTION. SCATTERED SHOWERS ACROSS THE CENTRAL PORTIONS OF THE REGION AT MIDDAY WILL CONTINUE TO DISSIPATE WITH RE-DEVELOPMENT EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON. THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS MINIMAL. GIVEN THE VERTICAL WIND STRUCTURE AND WARM TEMPERATURES ALOFT...BRIEF GUSTY WINDS OR THUNDERSTORM OUTFLOW WINDS WOULD BE THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IF IT DOES OCCUR. STORM MOVEMENT WILL BE GENERALLY TO THE SOUTH AT 15 TO 20 MPH. THIS SLOW MOVEMENT COMBINED WITH DEEP ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE MAKES LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS A CONTINUED THREAT WITH ALL STORMS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THIS AFTERNOON AND OVERNIGHT. JAP
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Slow-moving thunderstorms produced torrential downpours, estimated over 2 inches per hour. Road flooding was reported.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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