1 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 Jan 31, 2:15 PM CST, 9 hours 46 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 215 PM CST MON JAN 31 2005 .DISCUSSION... WEAK DEFORMATION ZONE JUST NORTH OF JET AXIS CONTS TO BE ASSOCD WITH NARROW AXIS OF PRECIP OVER SRN PARTS OF IL AND E-CNTRL/SERN MO. PRECIP TYPE HAS BEEN LGT SNOW WITH SOME RAIN AT TIMES AS WELL DUE TO SFC TEMPS MAINLY IN 34 TO 38 DEGREE RANGE AT THIS TIME. SHORT RANGE MODEL GUIDANCE AND CURRENT OBS SUGGEST SCT PRECIP WILL CONT TO PUSH ENEWD ACRS NRN PARTS OF FCST AREA AND INTO SWRN IN THIS EVNG BEFORE GRADUALLY WEAKENING/DISSIPATING LATER TNGT. SFC TEMPS SHOULD STAY WARM ENOUGH TO PRECLUDE PROBS ON MOST ROADS. TIME HT CROSS SECTIONS ALSO INDICATE A SEEDER-FEEDER TYPE SCENERIO WITH THIS SYS SO EVEN OUTSIDE OF THIS NARROW PRECIP AREA...COULD BE SCT DRIZZLE THIS EVNG OVER OTHER PARTS OF FCST AREA. WITH LOW CLOUDS LINGERING...LOW TEMPS TNGT LIKELY WILL REMAIN ABV MOS GUIDANCE AS WAS THE CASE LAST NIGHT. FOR TUE...LOOKS LIKE LOW CLOUDS MAY LINGER OVER SRN AND ERN PARTS OF FCST AREA BELOW SUBSIDENCE INVERSION WHILE BREAKS OF SUNSHINE OCCUR IN NRN/WRN LOCATIONS. THEN ATTENTION TURNS TO NEXT WEATHER SYS WHICH MODELS ARE BEGINNING TO CONVERGE ON FOR WED INTO EARLY THU...ALTHOUGH DETAILS STILL IN QUESTION. EFFECT ON THIS SYS WILL BE PREDICATED ON EVOLUTION OF CURRENT SWRN U.S. UPR LOW AS IT EJECTS ENEWD AND INTERACTS WITH NRN STREAM ENERGY. GFS IS MORE PRONOUNCED WITH SYS ON IT 12 UTC RUN THAN PREVIOUS RUNS AND IS NOW CLOSER TO NAM SOLUTION WHICH CONTS TO BE MOST EMPHATIC MODEL. LATEST UKMET AND ECMWF HINT AT THIS AS WELL. IF MODELS WERE CORRECT AS IS...MAIN PRECIP FOR QUAD STATE REGION WOULD BE ASSOCD WITH DEFORMATION AXIS AND ASSOCD LOW-MID-LEVEL FRONTOGENETICAL FORCING TO NORTH OF JET MAX PROGGED TO CUT NEWD ACRS LWR MS VLY AND TN VLY. ANOTHER BIG QUESTION IS BNDRY LAYER TEMPS. OVERALL PATTERN AND THERMAL PROFILE ALOFT WOULD SUGGEST SNOW ALTHOUGH MULTIPLE MODEL BNDRY LAYER TEMPS SHOWN ON MODEL SNDGS PROGGED TO REMAIN ADEQUATELY WARM FOR MELTING TO RAIN WED EVEN INTO WED NGT. FOR NOW...HAVE INTRODUCED PRECIP CHCS WED INTO EARLY THU FROM PRIOR DRY FCST...WITH RAIN PRIMARY MODE WED...THEN RAIN OR SNOW WED NGT TO EARLY THU UNTIL A MORE DEFINITIVE SYS EVOLUTION AND TRACK IS APPARENT. EXTENDED PART OF FCST APPEARS DRY FOR THU INTO THIS WEEKEND ALONG WITH RELATIVELY MILD TEMPS. LATE THIS WEEKEND OR EARLY NEXT WEEK...LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER SYS MAY BEGIN TO IMPACT AREA...TIMELY IS AN ISSUE. WILL MAINTAIN A CHC OF SHWRS FOR FCST AREA AT THAT TIME. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KY...NONE MO...NONE IL...NONE IN...NONE && TWF
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 330 PM CST MON JAN 31 2005 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087-100- 107>112-114-011100- 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...HERRIN...HARRISBURG...CARMI...CARBONDALE...CAIRO... PADUCAH...OWENSBORO...MURRAY...MAYFIELD...HOPKINSVILLE... EVANSVILLE...MADISONVILLE AND HENDERSON 330 PM CST MON JAN 31 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...AND WESTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ON SOME AREA RIVERS. REFER TO THE LATEST RIVER FLOOD STATEMENTS FOR MORE DETAILED INFORMATION. SCATTERED RAIN OR SNOW SHOWERS WILL OCCUR THIS EVENING OVER PARTS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS BEFORE ENDING OVERNIGHT. ANY SNOW ACCUMULATION WILL BE MINIMAL AND ON GRASSY AREAS ONLY THIS EVENING. PATCHY DRIZZLE AND FOG ARE POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ON SOME AREA RIVERS. REFER TO THE LATEST RIVER FLOOD STATEMENTS FOR MORE DETAILED INFORMATION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Ohio River fell below flood stage at Cairo on the 1st of the month. This was the end of a prolonged major flood event that began early in January.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Illinois in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Illinois, February 2005
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5438191.