Widespread heavy rainfall events on October 27th and again on the 29th and 30th sent the Green River above flood stage. Minor flooding began on the first of November and lasted a few days.
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The episode as NWS PAH wrote it up.
Widespread heavy rainfall events on October 27th and again on the 29th and 30th sent the Green River above flood stage. Minor flooding began on the first of November and lasted a few days.
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 Nov 1, 2:37 AM CST, 23 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 237 AM CST SUN NOV 1 2009 .DISCUSSION... HIGH PRESSURE WAS CENTERED FROM THE GREAT LAKES...SOUTHWEST ACROSS OUR REGION INTO SOUTH TEXAS...WITH CLEAR SKIES AND COOL CONDITIONS THE RULE ACROSS THE MID MISSISSIPPI AND LOWER OHIO VALLEY REGIONS. MAINTAINED A DRY FORECAST FOR THE 7 DAY PERIOD. WEAK FRONTS WILL MOVE THROUGH IN A PREDOMINANTLY NORTHWEST FLOW PATTERN ALOFT... WITH EACH ONE LACKING APPRECIABLE MOISTURE. THEY ARE SEEN MOVING THROUGH MONDAY...WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY. DID MAKE TWEAKS TO OUR GRIDDED WIND FORECAST IN THIS TIME FRAME...ESPECIALLY WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...AS HPC WIND GRIDS WERE NOT REFLECTIVE ENOUGH OF THE WIND SHIFTS...COMPARED TO THE CONSENSUS OF THE GFS ENSEMBLE WINDS AND ECMWF WINDS...WHICH WERE IN EXCELLENT AGREEMENT. TEMPS WERE A BLEND OF GFS AND NAM MOS IN THE SHORT TERM. IN THE LONG TERM...THEY WERE ESSENTIALLY LEFT AS IS...OUTSIDE OF A TWEAK HERE OR THERE. && .AVIATION... CLEAR SKIES AND LIGHT WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THIS TAF PERIOD AS HIGH PRESSURE MOVES EAST ACROSS OUR REGION. DUE TO WET GROUND...CLEAR SKIES...AND LIGHT WINDS...SOME FOG IS POSSIBLE AROUND SUNRISE. BEST CHANCE OF FOG APPEARS TO BE AT THE FOG PRONE KCGI SITE. PREVAILING VSBYS SHOULD BE MVFR THERE...THOUGH BRIEFLY LOWER VSBYS ARE POSSIBLE. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KY...NONE. MO...NONE. IL...NONE. IN...NONE. && CN/DB
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 457 AM CDT SAT OCT 31 2009 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-011000- 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- 457 AM CDT SAT OCT 31 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. AREA RIVER FLOOD WARNINGS AND STATEMENTS SHOULD BE REFERRED TO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION REGARDING RIVER FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. AREA RIVER FLOOD WARNINGS AND STATEMENTS SHOULD BE REFERRED TO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION REGARDING RIVER FLOODING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. /UPDATED TO INCLUDE MENTION OF RIVER FLOODING/
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Minor flooding of the Green River inundated some low-lying woods and fields. At the Paradise river gage, the river crested at 382.35 feet on the 2nd. Flood stage there is 380 feet.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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