Flash Flood, Vanderburgh
- When
- March 9, 2:03 PM CST to 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Vanderburgh County, Countywide
- Reported by
- UNKNOWN
- Coordinates
- 38.033, -87.600
Flash Flood in Indiana, March 9, 2006
1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What forecasters said that day
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 Mar 9, 5:10 AM CST, 8 hours 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 9, 5:10 AM CST, 8 hours 53 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 510 AM CST THU MAR 9 2006 THE ITEM DESERVING ATTENTION TODAY IS THE VIGOROUS STORM SYSTEM APPROACHING THE PAH FCST AREA...AND ITS POTENTIAL EFFECTS. A WAVE OF WARM SECTOR CONVECTION MOVED ACROSS MOST OF THE REGION OVERNIGHT TO THE SE OF A SFC LOW MOVING TOWARD THE GREAT LAKES. SOME STORMS HAD HIGH WIND POTENTIAL IN SERN MO FOR AWHILE...BUT AS THE LOW MOVED RAPIDLY NORTHEAST...THE INTENSITY OF THE CONVECTION GRADUALLY DIMINISHED. SINCE LATE YESTERDAY SOME PARTS OF SERN MO...SRN IL...AND SWRN IN RECEIVED IN EXCESS OF 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL...AND THERE WERE SOME SPOTTY MINOR FLOODING REPORTS OVERNIGHT. THE MODELS INDICATE THAT...AFTER A POSSIBLE MORNING LULL FOR MAINLY THE ERN SECTOR...SHWS AND TSTMS WILL BECOME NUMEROUS ONCE AGAIN IN THE AFTN. A NEGATIVELY TILTED MID LEVEL TROF...100 PLUS KNOT UPPER JET...STRONG ENVIRONMENTAL WINDS...AND A SFC TROF ARE EXPECTED TO PROVIDE PLENTIFUL MOISTURE...INSTABILITY...AND WIND SHEAR FOR SVR TSTM ACTIVITY TODAY AS THE SYSTEM DIGS THROUGH THE SRN PLAINS AND LIFTS RAPIDLY NE. WIND DAMAGE AND TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE...ALONG WITH LARGE HAIL. SEE SWODY1 FOR DETAILS. WITH THE AFOREMENTIONED EARLIER RAINFALL AND THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAIN TODAY...IT WAS DECIDED THAT A FLOOD WATCH WAS JUSTIFIED FOR ROUGHLY THE NWRN HALF OF THE FCST AREA UNTIL THE WORST IS OVER TONIGHT. A WIND ADVISORY WAS CONSIDERED BUT IT WAS THOUGHT THAT THE COPIOUS CLOUDNESS AND RAIN MAY LIMIT THE WINDS ALOFT FROM TRANSLATING TO THE SFC THAT MUCH /EXCEPT IN TSTMS/. HOWEVER...IN THE UNLIKELY EVENT OF CLOUD BREAKS ESPECIALLY IN THE SERN SECTOR...WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA COULD BE MET THERE. FRI SHOULD BE A COOL DRY DAY IN THE WAKE OF THE DEPARTING SYSTEM. THE NEXT MID LEVEL SHRTWV TROF TO AFFECT THE AREA WAS DEPICTED DIFFERENTLY BY THE 00Z NAM/GFS BUT LOOKED QUITE SIMILAR FOR THE 06Z RUN. SO...BY FRI NITE THERE WILL BE A SMALL CHC OF CONVECTION. POPS WILL INCREASE THROUGH THE WEEKEND AND LINGER INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK AS SW TO NE MID LEVEL FLOW AND PERSISTENT MOIST LOW LEVEL FLOW DOMINATES. MADE VERY FEW CHANGES AFT DAY4. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KY...NONE. MO...FLOOD WATCH FOR ALL COUNTIES XCP NEW MADRID AND MISSISSIPPI THROUGH 06Z FRI. IL...FLOOD WATCH FOR ALL COUNTIES XCP MASSAC...POPE...AND HARDIN THROUGH 06Z FRI. IN...FLOOD WATCH FOR ALL COUNTIES XCP WARRICK AND SPENCER THROUGH 06Z FRI. && DB
Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 9, 4:17 AM CST, 9 hours 46 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 417 AM CST THU MAR 9 2006 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-101100- JEFFERSON-WAYNE IL-EDWARDS-WABASH-PERRY IL-FRANKLIN-HAMILTON- WHITE-JACKSON-WILLIAMSON-SALINE-GALLATIN-UNION IL-JOHNSON-POPE- HARDIN-ALEXANDER-PULASKI-MASSAC-GIBSON-PIKE-POSEY-VANDERBURGH- WARRICK-SPENCER-FULTON-HICKMAN-CARLISLE-BALLARD-MCCRACKEN-GRAVES- LIVINGSTON-MARSHALL-CALLOWAY-CRITTENDEN-LYON-TRIGG-CALDWELL- UNION KY-WEBSTER-HOPKINS-CHRISTIAN-HENDERSON-DAVIESS-MCLEAN- MUHLENBERG-TODD-PERRY MO-BOLLINGER-CAPE GIRARDEAU-WAYNE MO-CARTER- RIPLEY-BUTLER-STODDARD-SCOTT-MISSISSIPPI-NEW MADRID- 417 AM CST THU MAR 9 2006 ...RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND EARLY TONIGHT... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE ENTIRE FOUR STATE AREA TODAY AND EARLY TONIGHT. THE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORNADOES...ESPECIALLY FROM MIDDAY THROUGH EARLY EVENING. ADDITIONALLY...A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...SOUTHERN ILLINOIS AND SOUTHWEST INDIANA THROUGH THIS EVENING. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE AS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TO TRACK ACROSS AREAS THAT HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED APPRECIABLE RAIN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. VERY LITTLE CHANGE IS EXPECTED IN THE UPPER AIR WIND FLOW PATTERN. AS A RESULT...THERE WILL BE A CONTINUED CHANCE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE PERIOD. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL REMAIN A POSSIBILITY AS WELL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 9, 1:19 PM CST, 44 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
119 PM CST THU MAR 09 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0114 PM FUNNEL CLOUD RIDGWAY 37.80N 88.26W
03/09/2006 GALLATIN IL TRAINED SPOTTER
TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR RIDGWAY.
0114 PM FLASH FLOOD HARRISBURG 37.74N 88.55W
03/09/2006 SALINE IL EMERGENCY MNGR
FLASH FLOODING NOW OCCURING IN HARRISBURG...EAST
HARRISBURG...AND NORTH HARRISBURG. DITCHES ARE FULL AND
OVERFLOWING ONTO ROADWAYS.
0114 PM HAIL RIDGWAY 37.80N 88.26W
03/09/2006 E0.88 INCH GALLATIN IL TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
PSLocal storm report, Mar 9, 1:22 PM CST, 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
122 PM CST THU MAR 09 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0110 PM FLASH FLOOD HARRISBURG 37.74N 88.55W
03/09/2006 SALINE IL TRAINED SPOTTER
DRAINAGE DITCHES OUT OF BANKS AND OVERFILLING ONTO
ROADWAYS REPORTED THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY.
&&
SMITTYLocal storm report, Mar 9, 1:25 PM CST, 38 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
125 PM CST THU MAR 09 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0124 PM TSTM WND DMG RIDGWAY 37.80N 88.26W
03/09/2006 GALLATIN IL AIRPLANE PILOT
DOWNED POWER POLES REPORTED IN VARIOUS PARTS OF COUNTY.
&&
SMITTYSpecial weather statement, Mar 9, 1:44 PM CST, 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 144 PM CST THU MAR 9 2006 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-092100- JEFFERSON-WAYNE IL-EDWARDS-WABASH-PERRY IL-FRANKLIN-HAMILTON- WHITE-JACKSON-WILLIAMSON-SALINE-GALLATIN-UNION IL-JOHNSON-POPE- HARDIN-ALEXANDER-PULASKI-MASSAC-GIBSON-PIKE-POSEY-VANDERBURGH- WARRICK-SPENCER-FULTON-HICKMAN-CARLISLE-BALLARD-MCCRACKEN-GRAVES- LIVINGSTON-MARSHALL-CALLOWAY-CRITTENDEN-LYON-TRIGG-CALDWELL- UNION KY-WEBSTER-HOPKINS-CHRISTIAN-HENDERSON-DAVIESS-MCLEAN- MUHLENBERG-TODD-PERRY MO-BOLLINGER-CAPE GIRARDEAU-WAYNE MO-CARTER- RIPLEY-BUTLER-STODDARD-SCOTT-MISSISSIPPI-NEW MADRID- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MOUNT VERNON...FAIRFIELD...ALBION... MOUNT CARMEL...PINCKNEYVILLE...WEST FRANKFORT...MCLEANSBORO... CARMI...CARBONDALE...MURPHYSBORO...HERRIN...HARRISBURG... SHAWNEETOWN...JONESBORO...VIENNA...GOLCONDA...ELIZABETHTOWN... CAIRO...MOUND CITY...METROPOLIS...FORT BRANCH...PETERSBURG... POSEYVILLE...EVANSVILLE...BOONVILLE...ROCKPORT...HICKMAN... CLINTON...BARDWELL...WICKLIFFE...PADUCAH...MAYFIELD...SMITHLAND... BENTON...MURRAY...MARION...EDDYVILLE...CADIZ...PRINCETON... MORGANFIELD...DIXON...MADISONVILLE...HOPKINSVILLE...HENDERSON... OWENSBORO...CALHOUN...GREENVILLE...ELKTON...PERRYVILLE... MARBLE HILL...CAPE GIRARDEAU...JACKSON...PIEDMONT...VAN BUREN... DONIPHAN...POPLAR BLUFF...BLOOMFIELD...SIKESTON...CHARLESTON... NEW MADRID 144 PM CST THU MAR 9 2006 ...LARGE AREAS OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL PERSIST INTO THE AFTERNOON HOURS... A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...WITH AN EMBEDDED LINE OF STRONGER STORMS...PERSISTED OVER SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND SOUTHERN ILLINOIS AROUND NOON. THE LINE EXTENDED FROM THE FULTON KENTUCKY...THROUGH PADUCAH...AND SHAWNEETOWN...TO MOUNT CARMEL. THE SOUTHERN SEGMENT OF THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH...WHILE THE NORTHERN PORTION WAS MOVING EAST AROUND 10 MPH. HOWEVER ALL THE INDIVIDUAL CELLS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. THIS LINE WILL MOVE THROUGH THE JACKSON PPURCHASEAREA AND INTO THE PENNYRILE REGION THROUGH 3 PM IN ADDITION TO ALL OF SOUTHWEST INDIANA. WIND DAMAGE AND FLOODING HAVE BEEN THE MAIN HAZARDS WITH THESE STORMS. HOWEVER HAIL HAS ALSO BEEN REPORTED WITH SOME OF THESE STORMS. IN ADDITION...WIND PROFILES AND SPOTTER REPORTS INDICATE THAT AN ISOLATED TORNADO WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE PASSAGE OF THIS LINE. A LARGE AREA OF MODERATE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL FOLLOW IN THE LINES WAKE. THE TRAILING EDGE OF THE RAIN FALL WAS ALONG A LINE FROM POPLAR BLUFF TO EFFINGHAM. IN ADDITION TO WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 40 TO 50 MPH...TORRENTIAL DOWN POURS OF RAIN WILL BE COMMON WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS. DRIVERS SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION DUE TO RAPIDLY REDUCED VISIBILITY AND PONDING OF WATER ON AREA ROADWAYS. MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLET FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. KH
Special weather statement, Mar 9, 1:50 PM CST, 13 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 150 PM CST THU MAR 9 2006 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-092100- JEFFERSON-WAYNE IL-EDWARDS-WABASH-PERRY IL-FRANKLIN-HAMILTON- WHITE-JACKSON-WILLIAMSON-SALINE-GALLATIN-UNION IL-JOHNSON-POPE- HARDIN-ALEXANDER-PULASKI-MASSAC-GIBSON-PIKE-POSEY-VANDERBURGH- WARRICK-SPENCER-FULTON-HICKMAN-CARLISLE-BALLARD-MCCRACKEN-GRAVES- LIVINGSTON-MARSHALL-CALLOWAY-CRITTENDEN-LYON-TRIGG-CALDWELL- UNION KY-WEBSTER-HOPKINS-CHRISTIAN-HENDERSON-DAVIESS-MCLEAN- MUHLENBERG-TODD-PERRY MO-BOLLINGER-CAPE GIRARDEAU-WAYNE MO-CARTER- RIPLEY-BUTLER-STODDARD-SCOTT-MISSISSIPPI-NEW MADRID- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MOUNT VERNON...FAIRFIELD...ALBION... MOUNT CARMEL...PINCKNEYVILLE...WEST FRANKFORT...MCLEANSBORO... CARMI...CARBONDALE...MURPHYSBORO...HERRIN...HARRISBURG... SHAWNEETOWN...JONESBORO...VIENNA...GOLCONDA...ELIZABETHTOWN... CAIRO...MOUND CITY...METROPOLIS...FORT BRANCH...PETERSBURG... POSEYVILLE...EVANSVILLE...BOONVILLE...ROCKPORT...HICKMAN... CLINTON...BARDWELL...WICKLIFFE...PADUCAH...MAYFIELD...SMITHLAND... BENTON...MURRAY...MARION...EDDYVILLE...CADIZ...PRINCETON... MORGANFIELD...DIXON...MADISONVILLE...HOPKINSVILLE...HENDERSON... OWENSBORO...CALHOUN...GREENVILLE...ELKTON...PERRYVILLE... MARBLE HILL...CAPE GIRARDEAU...JACKSON...PIEDMONT...VAN BUREN... DONIPHAN...POPLAR BLUFF...BLOOMFIELD...SIKESTON...CHARLESTON... NEW MADRID 144 PM CST THU MAR 9 2006 ...LARGE AREAS OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL PERSIST INTO THE AFTERNOON HOURS... A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...WITH AN EMBEDDED LINE OF STRONGER STORMS...PERSISTED OVER SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND SOUTHERN ILLINOIS AROUND NOON. THE LINE EXTENDED FROM THE FULTON KENTUCKY...THROUGH PADUCAH...AND SHAWNEETOWN...TO MOUNT CARMEL. THE SOUTHERN SEGMENT OF THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH...WHILE THE NORTHERN PORTION WAS MOVING EAST AROUND 10 MPH. HOWEVER ALL THE INDIVIDUAL CELLS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. THIS LINE WILL MOVE THROUGH THE JACKSON PURCHASE AREA AND INTO THE PENNYRILE REGION THROUGH 3 PM IN ADDITION TO ALL OF SOUTHWEST INDIANA. WIND DAMAGE AND FLOODING HAVE BEEN THE MAIN HAZARDS WITH THESE STORMS. HOWEVER HAIL HAS ALSO BEEN REPORTED WITH SOME OF THESE STORMS. IN ADDITION...WIND PROFILES AND SPOTTER REPORTS INDICATE THAT AN ISOLATED TORNADO WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE PASSAGE OF THIS LINE. A LARGE AREA OF MODERATE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL FOLLOW IN THE LINES WAKE. THE TRAILING EDGE OF THE RAIN FALL WAS ALONG A LINE FROM POPLAR BLUFF TO EFFINGHAM. IN ADDITION TO WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 40 TO 50 MPH...TORRENTIAL DOWN POURS OF RAIN WILL BE COMMON WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS. DRIVERS SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION DUE TO RAPIDLY REDUCED VISIBILITY AND PONDING OF WATER ON AREA ROADWAYS. MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLET FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. KH
Local storm report, Mar 9, 2:03 PM CST, 0 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
203 PM CST THU MAR 09 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0200 PM TSTM WND GST EVANSVILLE 37.98N 87.54W
03/09/2006 M59 MPH VANDERBURGH IN EMERGENCY MNGR
PEA SIZE HAIL AND TORRENTIAL RAINS REPORTED WITH WIND
GUSTS.
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SMITTYThe radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 27 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:01 UTC.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado and Hail in Arkansas, March 9, 2006
- Lightning Strike in Arkansas, March 9, 2006
- Strong Wind in Louisiana, March 9, 2006
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, March 9, 2006
- Flash Flood in Missouri, March 9, 2006
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, March 9, 2006
- Avalanche and Heavy Snow in Utah, March 9 to 13, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, March 9, 2006
- Tornado and Hail in Mississippi, March 9, 2006
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, March 9, 2006
- Tornado in Arkansas, March 9, 2006
- Damaging Winds and High Wind in Kentucky, March 9, 2006
More
Every storm in Indiana in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Indiana, March 2006
Sources
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: 5494129.