The Green River rose above flood stage about mid-month on its way toward a major flood event. A series of heavy rainfall events gradually forced the river upward at an unsteady rate.
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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 Green River rose above flood stage about mid-month on its way toward a major flood event. A series of heavy rainfall events gradually forced the river upward at an unsteady rate. The river continued rising past the end of the month. Impacts of the May crest will be included in the May report. April ended up being the wettest month on record at Paducah. Most of the rain fell during the latter half of the month. A persistent southwest flow aloft tended to steer storms northeast from the Plains across the mid-section of the country. Cold fronts tended to stall near the Lower Ohio Valley as they became more parallel to the upper-level steering flow. Bands and clusters of thunderstorms frequently developed in the vicinity of the front, producing heavy rainfall.
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 Apr 12, 6:52 AM CST, 2 hours 8 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 752 AM CDT TUE APR 12 2011 .UPDATE... UPDATED AVIATION DISCUSSON. NO UPDATE TO PUBLIC DISCUSSION. && .DISCUSSION... UPPER TROF WILL CONTINUE SLOW DEPARTURE EASTWARD...SCOURING OUT REMAINING CLOUDS GRADUALLY THROUGH AM HOURS. SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD INTO THE MID MS VALLEY IN ITS WAKE...WITH CLEAR SKIES AND DIMINISHING WINDS TONIGHT...COULD LEAD TO SOME FOG DEVELOPMENT BY LATE TONIGHT/EARLY TOMORROW AM. 60S TODAY TO RETURN TO 70S TOMORROW AND THURSDAY WITH GRADUAL WARMING EACH DAY AS THE HIGH SHIFTS EAST AND SLYS RETURN TO THE COLUMN. LOOKING FURTHER INTO THE MEDIUM TO LONG RANGE...DEVELOPING STORM SYSTEM IN THE PLAINS LOOKS A LITTLE SLOWER ON ITS APPROACH WITH THE 00Z MODEL DIGEST. HAVE THEREFORE ADJUSTED SLIGHTLY THE TIMING OF ONSET...HOLDING OFF THURSDAY POPS AND SPLITTING THURSDAY NIGHT GRIDS INTO FIRST HALF/2ND HALF OF NIGHT...SPIKING POPS IN THE 2ND HALF TO ACCOUNT FOR THE SLOWER TIMING. THIS WILL YIELD OUR NEXT BEST CHANCE OF STORMS/RAINS...WITH UPPER TROF NEGATIVELY TILTING BUT LOW STARTING TO STACK AND FRONT HINTING AT SOME OCCLUSION. THE FILLING/STACKING NATURE CERTAINLY OF THE GFS COULD END UP HOLDING POPS THRU FRIDAY AND EVEN INTO THE WEEKEND. THIS SEEMS SUFFICIENTLY REFLECTED IN INHERITED PACKAGE AND BEING THIS IS DAY 5 AND BEYOND WE ARE GOING TO LEAVE IT AS IS AT THIS POINT AND AWAIT A LITTLE MORE MODEL CLARIFICATION ON THE SYSTEM'S ULTIMATE EVOLUTION BEFORE MAKING SUCH LONGER TERM FORECAST ADJUSTMENTS. && .AVIATION... VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF HIGH PRESSURE AT THE SFC AND ALOFT. THE ONLY EXCEPTION MIGHT BE SOME FOG FORMATION NEAR SUNRISE IN THE USUAL FOG-PRONE AREAS SUCH AS THE KCGI TERMINAL. THIS MAY END UP BEING INCLUDED IN A LATER TAF PACKAGE. BRISK NRLY LOW LEVEL WINDS TODAY WILL SUBSIDE QUICKLY AROUND SUNSET AS THE NOCTURNAL INVERSION SETS UP. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KY...NONE. MO...NONE. IL...NONE. IN...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 323 AM CDT TUE APR 12 2011 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-131000- 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- 323 AM CDT TUE APR 12 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY...AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT PATCHY LATE NIGHT FOG THAT IS LOCALLY DENSE IS POSSIBLE. RIVER FLOODING WILL CONTINUE...REFER TO STATEMENTS FOR DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THUNDERSTORMS RETURN TO THE FORECAST THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...INCLUDING THE NEXT CHANCE OF STRONG STORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS. CONTINUED RIVER FLOODING DETAILS CAN BE FOUND ON THE LATEST STATEMENTS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS SHOULD MONITOR THE THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY WEATHER SYSTEM FOR THE NEXT POTENTIAL ACTIVATION REQUEST.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Rising Green River floodwaters closed a few roads.
Green River floodwaters began to approach a lot of homes and roads. Farmers moved equipment to higher ground.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kentucky in 2011Every state in 2011This day in weather historyWarnings in Kentucky, April 2011
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: 292413, 292414.