Minor flooding occurred along a couple of rivers in western Kentucky. The rivers rose above flood stage in response to the heavy rain event on the 12th and 13th, followed by some lighter wintry precipitation events during the middle of the month.
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The episode as NWS PAH wrote it up.
Minor flooding occurred along a couple of rivers in western Kentucky. The rivers rose above flood stage in response to the heavy rain event on the 12th and 13th, followed by some lighter wintry precipitation events during the middle of the month.
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 Jan 15, 6:22 AM CST, 38 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 622 AM CST TUE JAN 15 2013 .UPDATE... ISSUED AT 619 AM CST TUE JAN 15 2013 UPDATED AVIATION DISCUSSION ONLY. && .SHORT TERM...(TODAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT) ISSUED AT 253 AM CST TUE JAN 15 2013 MAIN ISSUE IN THE SHORT TERM LIES WITH LIGHT ICING/SLEET POTENTIAL OVER SOUTHEAST PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA LATER TODAY INTO THE EVENING. SHORT TERM MODELS TEND TO AGREE THAT LIGHT PRECIP WILL PUSH N ACROSS THE TN BORDER THIS AFTERNOON...AS MOIST SWLY FLOW ALOFT OVER RIDES THE LOW LVL DOME OF HIGH PRESSURE THAT HAS PUSHED SE INTO THE MIDWEST AND THE LOWER OHIO VALLEY. LOW LEVEL DRY AIR DOES NOT APPEAR AS PROMINENT AS YESTERDAY WITH SFC DEW POINTS RUNNING SEVERAL DEGREES HIGHER THAN AT THAT TIME. WITH THAT SAID...THINK LIGHT PRECIP WILL BEGIN REACHING THE SURFACE BY EARLY TO MID AFTERNOON DOWN NEAR THE TN BORDER. HOWEVER...BY THAT TIME...SFC TEMPS WILL LIKELY BE A FEW DEGREES ABOVE FREEZING...WITH ANOTHER MELTING LAYER ALOFT. THUS...ANY LIGHT RAIN OR SLEET WOULD NOT LIKELY CAUSE ANY MAJOR IMPACTS. THAT COULD CHANGE AS DARKNESS ARRIVES THIS EVENING...ANS SFC TEMPS FALL TO NEAR OR JUST BELOW FREEZING. LIGHT FREEZING RAIN/SLEET APPEAR LIKELY...ESP EAST OF THE LAKES REGION/OVER THE SOUTHERN PENNYRILE OF WRN KY. DUE TO UNCERTAINTIES IN HOW LONG IT WILL TAKE FOR ROADWAYS TO BEGIN ICING OVER...IF AT ALL...AND HOW LONG THE PRECIP WILL LAST LEADS ME TO HOLD OFF ON ANY HEADLINES FOR THE TIME BEING. WOULD NOT SURPRISED HOWEVER...IF THE DAY SHIFT NEEDS TO POP ONE FOR THE AFOREMENTIONED AREAS OF WRN KY IF ALL COMES TOGETHER WHEN SFC TEMPS FALL TO NEAR FREEZING AFTER SUNSET. WILL ISSUE AND SPS AND LET THEM UPGRADE AS THE SYSTEM GETS CLOSER AND A NEW SET OF MODEL RUNS BEGIN TO ARRIVE LATER THIS MORNING. ANY LEFTOVER WINTER PRECIP SHOULD MOVE EAST OF THE FORECAST AREA BY AROUND MIDNIGHT...AND WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY TIME FRAME LOOKS DRIER BUT CONTINUED ON THE CHILLY SIDE AS THE SFC HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM JUST TO OUR NORTH PRESSED SOUTH DIRECTLY OVER THE REGION. .LONG TERM...(THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY) ISSUED AT 253 AM CST TUE JAN 15 2013 ECMWF...GEM AND GFS ALL SHOW HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE OHIO VALLEY 12Z FRIDAY. AS THE HIGH MOVES FARTHER EAST...WINDS WILL BECOME SOUTHERLY THROUGH THE DAY FRIDAY. TEMPERATURES WILL MODERATE TO A LITTLE ABOVE SEASONAL READINGS ON FRIDAY INTO FRIDAY NIGHT...AND WELL ABOVE SEASONAL ON SATURDAY WITH READINGS AROUND 50 DEGREES. ALL THREE MODELS BRING A DRY COLD FRONT ACROSS THE REGION LATE SATURDAY INTO SATURDAY NIGHT. COLD CANADIAN HIGH PRESSURE WILL SINK SOUTH INTO THE NORTHERN PLAINS SUNDAY...AND NORTH WINDS WILL BRING COLD AIR BACK INTO THE MIDDLE MISSISSIPPI AND LOWER OHIO VALLEYS. TEMPERATURES WILL DROP OFF SUNDAY AND MONDAY...WITH HIGHS MONDAY ONLY IN THE MID 20S TO MID 30S. WITH THE VERY DRY AIR MASS...DEW POINTS MAY DROP INTO THE SINGLE DIGITS ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE PAH FORECAST AREA. ECMWF SHOWS A COLD FRONT MOVE INTO THE AREA LATE MONDAY...PRODUCING SOME LIGHT PRECIP. HOWEVER...WITH THE AFOREMENTIONED DRY AIR IN PLACE...A DRY FORECAST LOOKS REASONABLE. && .AVIATION...(FOR THE 12Z TAFS THROUGH 12Z WEDNESDAY MORNING) ISSUED AT 619 AM CST TUE JAN 15 2013 A BANK OF LOW CLOUDS...AROUND 1000 FEET AGL...WILL PROBABLY LINGER ACROSS THE PURCHASE AREA OF KY THROUGH MID MORNING...AND POSSIBLY LONGER. OTHERWISE...MID AND HIGH CLOUDINESS AND NERLY SFC WINDS WILL PREVAIL TODAY ACROSS THE PAH FORECAST AREA. THOUGH NOT EXPECTED TO AFFECT THE KPAH/KOWB TERMINALS /NEAR THE GROUND ANYWAY/...THERE WILL BE A MINOR WINTRY PCPN EVENT IN LATE AFTERNOON/EARLY EVENING IN PARTS OF WRN KY... ESPECIALLY CLOSE TO THE TN BORDER. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IL...NONE. MO...NONE. IN...NONE. KY...NONE. && SHORT TERM...MEFFERT LONG TERM....RST AVIATION...DB
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 411 AM CST TUE JAN 15 2013 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-161100- 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- 411 AM CST TUE JAN 15 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT LIGHT SLEET AND OR FREEZING RAIN IS LIKELY DOWN NEAR THE TENNESSEE BORDER LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT. DEPENDING ON HOW QUICKLY SURFACE TEMPERATURES FALL BELOW FREEZING...SOME ROADWAYS...ESPECIALLY BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES...MAY BEGIN TO ICE OVER AS THE SUN GETS LOWER LATER TODAY OR THIS EVENING. A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY MAY NEED TO BE ISSUED LATER THIS MORNING OR THIS AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS SHOULD RELAY ANY SNOW OR ICE REPORTS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TODAY AND TONIGHT.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 510 AM CST TUE JAN 15 2013 KYZ001>013-015>017-019>022-MOZ112-114-151730- FULTON-HICKMAN-CARLISLE-BALLARD-MCCRACKEN-GRAVES-LIVINGSTON- MARSHALL-CALLOWAY-CRITTENDEN-LYON-TRIGG-CALDWELL-WEBSTER-HOPKINS- CHRISTIAN-DAVIESS-MCLEAN-MUHLENBERG-TODD-MISSISSIPPI-NEW MADRID- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HICKMAN...CLINTON...BARDWELL... WICKLIFFE...PADUCAH...MAYFIELD...SMITHLAND...BENTON...MURRAY... MARION...EDDYVILLE...CADIZ...PRINCETON...DIXON...MADISONVILLE... HOPKINSVILLE...OWENSBORO...CALHOUN...GREENVILLE...ELKTON... CHARLESTON...NEW MADRID 510 AM CST TUE JAN 15 2013 ...LIGHT SLEET OR FREEZING RAIN POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT... A WEAK AREA OF LOW PRESSURE IS FORECAST TO MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST UNITED STATES LATER TODAY AND THIS EVENING. THIS SYSTEM WILL LIKELY SPREAD LIGHT RAIN OR SLEET NORTHWARD ACROSS THE TENNESSEE BORDER THIS AFTERNOON. INITIALLY...SURFACE TEMPERATURES SHOULD RANGE FROM THE MID TO UPPER 30S. HOWEVER...AS WE MOVE INTO THE EVENING HOURS...THESE READINGS MAY FALL TO NEAR OR JUST BELOW FREEZING..CREATING FREEZING RAIN OR SLEET CONDITIONS. THIS COULD CAUSE SOME SLICK AREAS ON ROADWAYS... ESPECIALLY ON ELEVATED ROADS SUCH AS BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES. PLEASE KEEP IN TOUCH WITH THE WEATHER TODAY. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORIES MAY BE REQUIRED LATER THIS MORNING OR THIS AFTERNOON... ESPECIALLY FROM THE LAND BETWEEN THE LAKES EASTWARD INTO THE PENNYRILE REGION OF WESTERN KENTUCKY. THE MOST SIGNIFICANT PRECIPITATION IS LIKELY TO FALL CLOSE TO THE TENNESSEE BORDER. MEFFERT
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Minor flooding occurred along the Green River near Paradise. Some low-lying fields and woodlands near the river were underwater.
Minor flooding occurred along the Ohio River near Uniontown. Some low-lying fields and woodlands near the river were underwater.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kentucky in 2013Every state in 2013This day in weather historyWarnings in Kentucky, January 2013
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: 429309, 429304.