A warm front moved very slowly north across Tennessee. From the afternoon of the 5th through the night of the 6th, locally heavy rain occurred in thunderstorms that developed along and north of the warm front.
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The episode as NWS PAH wrote it up.
A warm front moved very slowly north across Tennessee. From the afternoon of the 5th through the night of the 6th, locally heavy rain occurred in thunderstorms that developed along and north of the warm front.
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 Sep 5, 11:53 AM CST, 2 hours 7 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 1253 PM CDT SAT SEP 5 2009 .UPDATE... FOR AVIATION SECTION. && .PREVIOUS DISCUSSION.../ISSUED AT 1253 PM CDT SAT SEP 5 2009/ SLOW MOVING UPPER LOW NEAR KSTL WILL OPEN UP SLIGHTLY BUT LINGER FROM THE GREAT LAKES SOUTH AND WEST ACROSS THE LOWER OHIO AND MID MISSISSIPPI VALLEY REGIONS THROUGHOUT THE LABOR DAY WEEKEND. THE RESULT WILL BE ON AND OFF SCATTERED CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY THAT WILL BE DIFFICULT TO BOTH PLACE AND TIME. IN THE GRIDS...WILL DEPICT AS SCATTERED VS. CHANCE. COULD BE SOME PATCHY OVERNIGHT FOG AGAIN BUT IS NOT EXPECTED TO BE SIGNIFICANT AT THIS TIME. AN EVOLUTIONARY WEAK NW FLOW WILL PERSIST FOR MUCH OF THE UPCOMING WEEK...MAKING IT DIFFICULT TO RULE OUT ENTIRELY LOW CHANCE POPS THROUGH THE PERIOD. DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE ANYTHING OVERLY ORGANIZED TIL PERHAPS NEXT WEEKEND...WHEN BOTH THE GFS AND ECWMF DROP A MORE POTENT TROF/LOW SOUTHEAST INTO THE UPPER MIDWEST. THAT OF COURSE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE AS WELL THAT FAR OUT IN TIME. && .AVIATION... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY SEEMS TO BE QUIETING DOWN THIS EVENING. HOWEVER...CANNOT RULE OUT AN ISOLATED CELL HERE AND THERE WITH THE UPPER LOW AND DEEP MOISTURE IN THE REGION. OF MORE CONCERN MAY BE IFR/LOW IFR FOG DEVELOPMENT AT KPAH/KEVV/KOWB OVERNIGHT...WHERE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL OCCURRED THIS AFTERNOON. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KY...NONE. MO...NONE. IL...NONE. IN...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 1255 PM CDT SAT SEP 5 2009 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-061000- 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- 1255 PM CDT SAT SEP 5 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY...AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND LIGHTNING WILL BE THE MAIN HAZARDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND LIGHTNING WILL BE THE MOST LIKELY HAZARDS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. RAINFALL REPORTS ARE ENCOURAGED.
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 4 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:05 UTC.
1 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Minor flooding occurred in the usual problem areas on Kentucky Highways 998 and 1565 west of Paducah.
Two persons were evacuated from a residence off Kentucky 94 east of Murray. That residence and another at that location were deemed uninhabitable due to flooding. Red Cross was aiding the victims. Residences on an adjacent street had flooding that stopped just short of the houses but submerged lawn mowers in the yard. The mesonet system west of Murray measured 1 inch of rain in less than an hour. From observer reports, the rain east and south of Murray was heavier.
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