A frontal boundary wavered across the area between the 6th and 11th, bringing scattered showers and storms each day. 5 inches.
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The episode as NWS PAH wrote it up.
A frontal boundary wavered across the area between the 6th and 11th, bringing scattered showers and storms each day. Total rainfall was generally 1 to 1.5 inches. Because the ground was still so wet from heavy precipitation in late January, there was some minor flooding along rivers.
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 Feb 11, 7:50 PM CST, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 750 PM CST WED FEB 11 2009 .UPDATE... UPDATED PUBLIC PRODUCTS TO CANCEL THE HIGH WIND WARNING AN HOUR EARLY. 01Z METARS INDICATED THAT GUSTS HAD SUBSIDED SIGNIFICANTLY BELOW WARNING CRITERIA WITH SUNSET. THAT TREND SHOULD CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVENING. && .DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 442 PM CST WED FEB 11 2009/ RUC MODEL AND OBS INDICATE THAT A TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT WILL TAKE A WHILE TO SUBSIDE THIS EVE IN THE TRI STATE REGION. THEREFORE THE HIGH WIND WARNING WAS EXTENDED FOR THAT AREA THROUGH 800 PM. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 314 PM CST WED FEB 11 2009/ DISCUSSION... A VIGOROUS LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL CONTINUE TO RACE THROUGH THE REGION TODAY. SOME ISOLD SMALL HAIL PRODUCING SHOWERS BEHIND THE COLD FRONT HAD FORWARD SPEEDS OF AROUND 70 MPH. IT IS SAFE TO SAY THAT AT LEAST SCT AREAS EXPERIENCED HIGH WIND WARNING CRITERIA IN THE LATE MRNG AND AFTN...AND THE SVR WINDS HAVE BEEN AND WILL BE MORE WIDESPREAD ESPECIALLY IN THE ERN HALF OF THE REGION. AN AREA OF RAIN ASSOCIATED WITH THE MID LEVEL LOW WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS SRN IL AND SWRN IND THIS AFTN. BY 00Z...THE NOW NEARLY STACKED LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL ROCKET ALL THE WAY TO NRN IND. THIS SHOULD RAPIDLY RELAX THE PRESSURE GRADIENT FOR THE EVE...ESPECIALLY IN THE SWRN HALF OF THE PAH FCST AREA. HOWEVER... THE NPW/HIGH WIND WARNING MAY HAVE TO BE EXTENDED IN THE NERN QUADRANT FOR A COUPLE MORE HOURS. THAT DECISION WILL BE MADE WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR AND WILL DEPEND ON THE LATEST OBS. ZONAL FLOW ALOFT AND HIGHER SFC PRESSURES WILL PROVIDE A MUCH MORE BENIGN FORM OF WX FOR THE REST OF THE FCST PACKAGE...HOWEVER CONDITIONS WILL NOT BE TOTALLY RAIN FREE. MAINLY ON FRI NIGHT...A MINOR MID LEVEL SHRTWV WILL PRODUCE SOME SCT RAIN SHWRS...POSSIBLY ENDING AS SNOW SHWRS IN THE NRN THIRD OF THE PAH FCST AREA EARLY ON SAT. RAIN FREE CONDITIONS SHOULD CONTINUE UNDER MID LEVEL RIDGING AND HIGH SFC PRESSURE. ON DAY 7/TUE...ANOTHER SHRTWV MAY PRODUCE ANOTHER ROUND OF RAIN SHWRS. TEMPS SHOULD BE NEAR NORMAL LEVELS IN THE WAKE OF THIS SYSTEM. THE GFS MODEL WAS MOST FAVORED IN THE EXTENDED.../DAY 4 AND BEYOND. AVIATION... WEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO GRADUALLY WEAKEN DURING THE EVENING HOURS...WITH SPEEDS OF 10 TO 15 KTS BY 06Z. MVFR CIGS WILL BE PREDOMINANT THROUGH MOST OF THE NIGHT...OCCASIONALLY IMPROVING TO VFR. KCGI AND KPAH CAN EXPECT P6SM SKC CONDITIONS BY 07Z TO 09Z...AND AT KEVV AND KOWB BY 10Z TO 12Z. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KY...NONE. MO...NONE. IL...NONE. IN...NONE. && PUBLIC...DRS/DB AVIATION...RST
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 737 PM CST WED FEB 11 2009 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-121100- 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- 737 PM CST WED FEB 11 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY SOME AREA RIVERS ARE FORECAST TO REACH FLOOD STAGE LATE THIS WEEK OR NEXT WEEK. PLEASE REFER TO THE APPROPRIATE FLOOD STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS FOR DETAILS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. DRS
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Minor flooding of the St. Francis River occurred. At the Patterson gage, the river crested at 19.04 feet on the 12th. Flood stage there is 16 feet. Mainly bottomland and surrounding low-lying fields were affected. Route FF was closed near U.S. Highway 67.
Minor flooding of the Black River occurred at Poplar Bluff. The river crested at 16.61 feet on the 12th. Flood stage there is 16 feet. Mainly bottomland and surrounding low-lying areas were affected.
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