The new year started off as an active one, with numerous systems traversing the region. These systems brought rain, snow, and thunder.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
The episode as NWS PAH wrote it up.
The new year started off as an active one, with numerous systems traversing the region. These systems brought rain, snow, and thunder. The frequency of systems caused enough rainfall to push the White River above flood stage.
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 9, 3:39 PM EST, 11 hours 21 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 239 PM CST WED JAN 9 2008 .DISCUSSION... LOW PRESSURE WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS TONIGHT AND MOVE EAST/NORTHEAST ACROSS MISSOURI AND ILLINOIS...REACHING NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA BY 00Z TOMORROW. THERE WILL BE AN INCREASING CHANCE OF SHOWERS BEGINNING LATE TONIGHT ACROSS WEST KY...WITH A GOOD CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND PERHAPS THUNDERSTORMS MOST OF THE AREA THURSDAY. LOWEST POPS WILL BE ACROSS SE MISSOURI...WITH THE GREATEST CHANCE OF FROM SOUTHWEST INDIANA INTO THE PENNYRILE REGION OF WEST KENTUCKY. THE THUNDER THREAT SHOULD BE OVER MAINLY THE EAST 1/2 OF THE AREA. WEAK HIGH PRESSURE WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY. SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY...A FAST MOVING WEAK NORTHWEST SYSTEM WILL OFFER UP A SLIGHT CHANCE OF R-/S-. MONDAY AND TUESDAY HIGH PRESSURE SHOULD RESULT IN DRY WEATHER...AHEAD OF A DEVELOPING TROF ACROSS THE WEST CENTRAL U.S. WEDNESDAY...LOW PRESSURE WILL DEVELOP AHEAD OF THE TROF ACROSS THE CENTRAL U.S. FOR NOW...WILL HOLD ON INTRODUCING POPS. IN TIME...THIS MAY CHANGE SHOULD ADDITIONAL MODELS SUPPORT THIS DEVELOPING SCENARIO. THE OVERALL TEMPERATURE TREND WILL BE DOWNWARD THROUGH THE FORECAST PACKAGE...WITH VALUES RETURNING TO MORE NORMAL READINGS FOR MID JANUARY. && .AVIATION... EXPECT SCT-BKN250 WITH NO RESTRICTIONS TO VISIBILITY TO LAST THROUGH THE EVENING. MID LEVEL CLOUDS WILL OVERSPREAD THE REGION BETWEEN 05 AND 10Z LOWERING TO BKN030-050 BETWEEN 11 TO 13Z. SOUTHEAST WINDS WILL REMAIN LESS THAN 10 KTS. BY MID-MORNING ON THURSDAY...14 TO 16Z...EXPECT A CHANCE OF SHOWERS WITH VSBYS DROPPING TO BETWEEN 3 AND 5 MILES...KPAH AND KCGI MAY EXPERIENCE MVFR CIGS PRIOR TO 18Z. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KY...NONE. MO...NONE. IL...NONE. IN...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 1219 PM CST WED JAN 9 2008 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- 1219 PM CST WED JAN 9 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY...AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY...EAST OF A LINE FROM FAIRFIELD ILLINOIS TO NEW MADRID MISSOURI. OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING WILL BE THE MAIN HAZARD...ALONG WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF BRIEF HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE PENNYRILE REGION OF WEST KENTUCKY...WHICH MAY RESULT IN REDUCED VISIBILITIES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Minor flooding of the White River occurred. At Petersburg, where flood stage is 16 feet, the river crested at 19.73 feet on the 15th. Minor flooding of low-lying bottomland fields occurred. State Road 257 began to flood. Low oil fields were flooded, and a few local county roads were closed.
Minor flooding of the White River occurred. At Hazleton, where flood stage is 16 feet, the river crested at 19.60 feet on the 17th. Low lying oil fields and county roads flooded. High water isolated Pottstown, a river cabin community.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Indiana in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in Indiana, January 2008
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: 72876, 72879.