1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jul 3, 2:25 AM CST, 18 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 325 AM CDT SAT JUL 3 2004 .DISCUSSION... PERSISTENCE FORECAST STRATEGY HAS BEEN BEST FOLLOWED AND WL KEEP IT GOING CONSIDERING CONTINUATION OF MODEL SOLUTIONS REGARDING SLOWLY EWARD DRIFTING UPPER LOW AND ITS ASSOCIATED HIGH POPS FOR PAH FA TODAY-TONIGHT. PER LATEST HPC GUIDANCE AND COLLABORATION...WL INCLUDE +RA MENTION AS MAX RH AND BEST CHC PCPN OCCURS TODAY INTO (EARLY) TONIGHT. WL TAPER POPS WEST TO EAST TONIGHT...MAINTAINING END BY/BEFORE 12Z...WHICH HAS BEEN A CONSISTENT MODEL SIGNAL. 00Z GFS/ETA OFFER LTL CHANGE TO THE MID TO EXTENDED PORTION OF THE FORECAST AS WELL...WITH NEAR DAILY CHC POP SAVE FOR SUN AND MON NIGHT. BETTER CHANCE OF MORE PROLONGED DRY SPELL COMES AFTER THE MID WEEK CHANCES AND APPARENT FROPA...ALTHOUGH CONFIDENCE IN ACTUAL FROPA (AND THUS END TO POPS) IS MARGINAL GIVEN TIME OF YEAR. HOWEVER...GFS/MRF HAS DONE IT 3 RUNS IN A ROW NOW. THUS WL KEEP PERSISTENCE STRATEGY/CONSISTENT FORECAST HERE AS WELL...AT LEAST UNTIL STRONGER MODEL SIGNALS ARE PICKED UP. W/CONTINUATION OF META LEAN NEAR TERM...BLENDING TO GFS MID TO LONG RANGE...FORECAST TEMPS WL REFLECT THEIR RESPECTIVE MOS BIASES AS WELL. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KY...NONE. MO...NONE. IL...NONE. IN...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 345 PM CDT FRI JUL 2 2004 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087-100- 107>112-114-031000- ALEXANDER IL-BALLARD KY-BOLLINGER MO-BUTLER MO-CALDWELL KY- CALLOWAY KY-CAPE GIRARDEAU MO-CARLISLE KY-CARTER MO-CHRISTIAN KY- CRITTENDEN KY-DAVIESS KY-EDWARDS IL-FRANKLIN IL-FULTON KY- GALLATIN IL-GIBSON IN-GRAVES KY-HAMILTON IL-HARDIN IL-HENDERSON KY- HICKMAN KY-HOPKINS KY-JACKSON IL-JEFFERSON IL-JOHNSON IL- LIVINGSTON KY-LYON KY-MARSHALL KY-MASSAC IL-MCCRACKEN KY-MCLEAN KY- MISSISSIPPI MO-MUHLENBERG KY-NEW MADRID MO-PERRY MO-PERRY IL-PIKE IN- POPE IL-POSEY IN-PULASKI IL-RIPLEY MO-SALINE IL-SCOTT MO-SPENCER IN- STODDARD MO-TODD KY-TRIGG KY-UNION KY-UNION IL-VANDERBURGH IN- WABASH IL-WARRICK IN-WAYNE MO-WAYNE IL-WEBSTER KY-WHITE IL- WILLIAMSON IL- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SIKESTON...POPLAR BLUFF...PERRYVILLE... CAPE GIRARDEAU...PADUCAH...OWENSBORO...MURRAY...MAYFIELD... MADISONVILLE...HOPKINSVILLE...HENDERSON...EVANSVILLE...HERRIN... HARRISBURG...CARMI...CARBONDALE AND CAIRO 345 PM CDT FRI JUL 2 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...AND WESTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT...GENERALLY SOUTH AND WEST OF A LINE EXTENDING FROM GREENVILLE MISSOURI TO DEXTER MISSOURI. THE MAIN CONCERN WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM WILL BE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. ELSEWHERE ACROSS THE QUAD STATE REGION... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO STAY BELOW SEVERE LEVELS. HOWEVER... LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS WILL BE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY WHERE STORMS REPEAT OVER THE SAME AREA. THIS COULD LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...GENERALLY SOUTH OF A LINE EXTENDING FROM DONIPHAN MISSOURI TO CHARLESTON MISSOURI TO MURRAY KENTUCKY. ALTHOUGH HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS WILL BE THE PRIMARY CONCERN...AN ISOLATED TORNADO OR TWO CANNOT BE RULED OUT. THERE IS ANOTHER CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY...TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. HOWEVER...ORGANIZED SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TONIGHT...SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...MAINLY ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST KENTUCKY.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Numerous streets were closed in Doniphan. Radar estimated about 2.5 inches of rain fell during three hours.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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