A cold front slowed down as a secondary low pressure system developed along the front and then moved northeast along it. Showers and thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall amounts from 1 to 3 inches.
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A cold front slowed down as a secondary low pressure system developed along the front and then moved northeast along it. Showers and thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall amounts from 1 to 3 inches. The heavy rain caused small rivers to rise. The middle fork of the Clarks River went out of its banks near Murray.
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 Mar 29, 2:55 AM CST, 6 hours 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 355 AM CDT Sat Mar 29 2014 .SHORT TERM...(Today through Monday night) Issued at 355 AM CDT SAT MAR 29 2014 Large area of showers will continue to move east this morning, and by this afternoon should be out of our eastern CWFA, as the mid level trof driving the convection moves east. Clearing the rest of the day and into tonight from west to east. It will be cooler today with high pressure building in. Tonight through Sunday night, quiet weather is anticipated with high pressure moving east across the region. Next system of interest approaches Monday. By Monday afternoon, may see a few showers enter into our western CWFA as a frontal system approaches. The chance will continue across the rest of the area Monday evening. Moisture looks only marginally supportive of showers. We will keep PoPs mainly in the slight chance category for now as a result. Temperatures on the backside of the high will be mild, with near 70 most areas returning for Monday. .LONG TERM...(Tuesday through Friday) Issued at 355 AM CDT SAT MAR 29 2014 To start off the long term, a frontal boundary will be exiting the region during the morning hours on Tuesday. The front will not get very far out of the area before returning north as a warm front Tuesday night into Wednesday morning...and there are some slight timing differences btwn models on this return. Precipitation does not look likely for Tuesday night except for possibly the far northern and western sections, closer to the better moisture and low level jet, in addition to being on the north side of the front. It is not yet clear whether the front pushes all the way north of the CWA on Wednesday or decides to linger across the area. Either way, the GFS/ECMWF/GEM are not real excited about precip as the better moisture is still off to the west. We will keep pops in the chance category for some scattered convection possibilities. The best chances for precipitation look to be on Wednesday night, as an upper level low pressure system over the western CONUS finally starts moving eastward. As the system pushes east, the upper flow becomes more southwesterly and moisture really starts to advect into the area. Based on some of the QPF numbers, we could see some heavy rainfall. As we get into Thursday and Friday, the progression of the upper level pattern depicted by the models is definitely not consistent. However, it does appear that precipitation will linger into at least Thursday before a front passes through sometime in the Thursday night into Friday time frame. Temperatures are expected to be at or above seasonal norms. && .AVIATION... Issued at 355 AM CDT SAT MAR 29 2014 Large area of showers persisted east of a line from KSLO to KPOF, moving slowly east. Wide range of cigs, from IFR to low end VFR. This will result in a low confidence forecast in terms of bases through the morning. Showers will continue to head east and end. Winds will be out of the NW for much of the day, in the 10 to 20 kt range. Skies will eventually clear out as high pressure builds in. Winds tonight will become light, and continue from the north. Not sure if there will be late night fog given wet ground conditions, and with winds going light. Something that can be monitored. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IL...NONE. MO...NONE. IN...NONE. KY...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 359 AM CDT SAT MAR 29 2014 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-301000- 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- 359 AM CDT SAT MAR 29 2014 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. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE IN THE FORECAST WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. A FEW STRONG STORMS CANNOT BE RULED OUT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The middle fork of the Clarks River flooded a secondary road just south of the Murray city limits. Eight to twelve inches of water were flowing over the road.
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