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 May 10, 1:30 AM CST, 5 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 230 AM CDT WED MAY 10 2006 .DISCUSSION... MDT RISK EXCESSIVE RAINFALL AND COLLAB ON INCOMING SHRA/TSRA YIELDS AGREEMENT ON FFA FOR SEMO INTO SWIL TODAY. MDT RISK SVR PER LATEST SWODY1 PRIMARILY A LATER IN DAY RISK GIVEN EVOLUTION OF LINE TO SOUTH AND AMOUNT OF DESTAB IN TN VALLEY AHEAD OF DEVELOPING SURFACE LOW/COLD FRONT THAT WL SWEEP THRU LOWER OH/MID MS VALLEY. ALL MOS AND COLLAB SUPPORTS CAT POPS FA-WIDE TODAY. GFS/NAM SHOW SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES AFT 12 HOURS IN HOW THEY TRANSLATE SURFACE WAVE AND FROPA. NAM IS MUCH MORE REGRESSIVE IN LINGERING QUADS 1 AND 2 PCPN INTO TONIGHT...WHICH IS A FLIP-FLOP FROM YDAY SAME TIME RUN. GFS A TAD MORE CONSISTENT IN A MORE RESOLUTE TRANSLATION AND A TAPERING W-E POP BEHIND FRONT TONIGHT...HAVE SPLIT THE DIFF W/ A BIAS TOWARD THE MORE CONSISTENT GFS SIGNAL. AFTER THAT WE ARE UNDER THE DOMINANT INFLUENCE OF THE LARGE SCALE CUT OFF LOW THRU THE WEEKEND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. WE ACCOUNTED FOR 00Z MOS AND COLLAB AND GIVEN ALL MODEL DIAGNOSES OF TROF HAVE EXTENDED POPS NOW INTO MON...TAKING SLOW APPROACH TO EXTENSION. ALSO SHAVED TEMPS A STEP TOWARD MEX MOS GIVEN ANTICIPATION OF CUT OFF LOW CLOUDS/MORE COOLISH TEMPS. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KY...NONE. MO...FFA SEMO THRU 23Z. IL...FFA SWIL THRU 23Z. IN...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 316 AM CDT WED MAY 10 2006 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-111000- 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- 316 AM CDT WED MAY 10 2006 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 MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN KENTUCKY TODAY AND EARLY TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE REMAINDER OF THE QUAD STATE TODAY AND EARLY TONIGHT. A SURFACE LOW WILL STRENGTHEN AND RIDE ALONG A SURFACE BOUNDARY LATER TODAY. INCOMING STORMS ALONG AND AHEAD OF THIS BOUNDARY WILL HAVE AS THEIR PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL DURING PEAK HEATING IN THE AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND REPEAT HEAVY RAINS WILL ALSO BE A HAZARDOUS WEATHER THREAT TODAY. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THERE IS AN ISOLATED CHANCE FOR A THUNDERSTORM SO LONG AS THE UPPER LOW LINGERS OVER THE AREA...BUT MAINLY ON SATURDAY NIGHT. WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED TODAY.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 136 AM CDT WED MAY 10 2006 MOZ100-109-110-100700- BUTLER MO-STODDARD MO-WAYNE MO- 136 AM CDT WED MAY 10 2006 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM CONTAINING HAIL IN SOUTHERN WAYNE COUNTY... A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS SOUTHERN WAYNE COUNTY AND NORTHERN BUTLER AND STODDARD COUNTIES IN MISSOURI. THE STRONGEST STORM WILL MOVE ALONG THE BORDER OF BUTLER AND WAYNE COUNTIES THROUGH 200 AM. THIS STORM MAY CONTAIN HALF INCH HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS...IN ADDITION TO DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. DB
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 88 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 12:32 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
State Highway D was impassible due to flooding just south of County Road 454.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Missouri in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Missouri, May 2006
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: 5508080.