Heavy Rain, Wabash
- When
- July 30, 11:00 AM CST to 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- Wabash County, Mt Carmel
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 38.420, -87.770
Flooding of side streets was reported.
Heavy Rain in Illinois, July 30, 2009
Thunderstorms with torrential rain trained along a stationary front over the Lower Ohio Valley. A shortwave trough tracked eastward from Arkansas and phased with a second shortwave that tracked east from the upper Mississippi River Valley.
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
- 3
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 happened
The episode as NWS PAH wrote it up.
Thunderstorms with torrential rain trained along a stationary front over the Lower Ohio Valley. A shortwave trough tracked eastward from Arkansas and phased with a second shortwave that tracked east from the upper Mississippi River Valley. These shortwaves provided uplift for sustained intense convection.
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 Jul 30, 10:40 AM CST, 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 10:40 AM CST, 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 1140 AM CDT THU JUL 30 2009 .UPDATE... UPDATED PUBLIC PRODUCTS AND PRIMARY DISCUSSION BELOW FOR LATEST MODEL AND OBSERVATIONAL TRENDS. ALSO UPDATED AVIATION DISCUSSION FOR 18Z TAF ISSUANCE. && .DISCUSSION... AREA OF SHOWERS LIFTING STEADILY NORTHWARD THROUGH ARKANSAS AND TENNESSEE IS FINALLY REACHING THE KENTUCKY AND MISSOURI BORDERS. THE FRONT THAT WAS LINGERING ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE AREA...HAS LIFTED NORTH OF THE AREA...ALLOWING LOWER 70S DEWPOINTS TO OVERSPREAD THE ENTIRE AREA BY MIDDAY. TAMDAR SOUNDING FROM KPAH AT 1551Z INDICATES THAT SURFACE-BASED DESTABILIZATION IS OCCURRING AND SHOULD RESULT IN DEVELOPMENT OVER MUCH OF THE AREA IN THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO. LOTS OF MOISTURE TO PLAY WITH...SO LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE A CONCERN THROUGHOUT THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. THE EXPECTED DEVELOPMENT ALONG WITH THE PRE-EXISTING SHOWERS MOVING INTO THE REGION WARRANT CATEGORICAL POPS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON OVER MUCH OF THE AREA. JACKED UP POPS IN THE SOUTHERN THIRD TO NEAR 100 PERCENT. 12Z NAM AND GFS SUPPORT THIS SCENARIO...AND MOVE THE FRONT INTO THE AREA BY SUNSET...AND THE PRECIPITATION MOSTLY OUT OF THE AREA BY 06Z TONIGHT. THIS IS ALREADY HANDLED WELL IN THE FORECAST FOR TONIGHT. ALSO LEANED ON THE 12Z NAM FORECAST FOR TEMPERATURE AND WIND TRENDS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. && .AVIATION... PREDOMINANT PRECIP UNTIL MDNGT WITH OCNL TS ALL SITES. HAVE INTRO A FEW GUSTS THIS AFTN. KEEP CIGS MVFR ALL SITES WITH PSBL IFR FOG AND CIGS FOR A FEW HOURS AROUND SUNRISE FOR KCGI. OTHERWISE WIDESPREAD VFR BR ACROSS THE AREA. CIGS AND VSBYS WILL GO VFR AFTER 14Z FRI ALL SITES...ALONG WITH A NORTHWEST FLOW. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KY...NONE. MO...NONE. IL...NONE. IN...NONE. && PUBLIC...DRS AVIATION...KH
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 30, 6:01 AM CST, 4 hours 59 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 701 AM CDT THU JUL 30 2009 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-311215- 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- 701 AM CDT THU JUL 30 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS THE QUAD STATE REGION TODAY AND TONIGHT. ALTHOUGH AN ISOLATED SEVERE STORM CANNOT BE RULED OUT...THE MAIN CONCERN WITH STRONGER STORMS WILL BE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE WESTERN HALF OF THE QUAD STATE SATURDAY AFTERNOON...AND ACROSS THE ENTIRE REGION SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY. ALTHOUGH ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE...WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. THERE ARE ON AND OFF CHANCES OF THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER...ANY SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL REPORTS WOULD BE APPRECIATED. RST
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
3 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy Rain, Jefferson
- When
- July 30, 12:50 PM CST to 1:50 PM CST
- Where
- Jefferson County, Mt Vernon
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 38.320, -88.900
Street flooding was reported in areas that frequently flood in heavy rain.
Heavy Rain, Saline
- When
- July 30, 7:00 PM CST to 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Saline County, Eldorado
- Reported by
- Emergency Manager
- Coordinates
- 37.820, -88.430
Water was over two main roads, including Highway 142.
What these are
- Heavy Rain
- Rainfall totals unusual for the place and season that did not produce a flood.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Tennessee, July 30, 2009
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, July 30, 2009
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Arkansas, July 30, 2009
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Arkansas, July 30, 2009
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, July 30 to 31, 2009
- Tornado and Flash Flood in Tennessee, July 30, 2009
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Texas, July 30, 2009
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, July 30, 2009
- Damaging Winds in Louisiana, July 30, 2009
- Lightning Strike in Georgia, July 30, 2009
- Flash Flood and Hail in New Mexico, July 30, 2009
- Tornado and Flood in Kentucky, July 30, 2009
More
Every storm in Illinois in 2009Every state in 2009This day in weather historyWarnings in Illinois, July 2009
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: 179222, 179224, 179218.