Minor flooding occurred on the White River. The flooding was in response to heavy rainfall on the 3rd caused by a surface low pressure system that moved northward from the western Gulf coast.
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The episode as NWS PAH wrote it up.
Minor flooding occurred on the White River. The flooding was in response to heavy rainfall on the 3rd caused by a surface low pressure system that moved northward from the western Gulf coast. The low brought widespread heavy rainfall averaging from one to three inches, with isolated higher amounts.
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 4, 6:07 PM EST, 6 hours 23 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 507 PM CST Sun Jan 4 2015 .UPDATE... Issued at 505 PM CST SUN JAN 4 2015 Updated Aviation section for 00Z TAF Issuance. && .SHORT TERM...(Tonight through Tuesday night) Issued at 234 PM CST SUN JAN 4 2015 Our next Arctic intrusion will be quite rude in comparison to that which is currently filtering through the forecast area. A look at NAEFS standardized anomalies indicates that the surface high will be of record proportions. Temperature anomalies are not as extreme as the MSLP, but we will be just about as cold as we can ever expect to get without snow cover. Temperatures will fall continuously from late Tuesday through Thursday morning. Temperatures will bottom out near zero across the north Thursday morning. Wind chills will drop below zero in the north late Tuesday night and will flirt with Wind Chill Advisory levels (-10F) along I-64 all day Wednesday. Wind chills will drop below zero over the entire area through the day Wednesday. Back to the current situation... Strong cold advection is under way across the region this afternoon. The last of some light showers will be drifting into northwest Tennessee in the next hour or so, while some very light echoes, possibly some flurries, spread southeast through the Evansville Tri State area. Not much in the way of flurries/drizzle showing up in METARS at 20Z, so will keep an eye on them and add in the flurries if necessary. Skies should clear out this evening, and west northwest winds will slowly diminish, as the surface high approaches from the west. At least this afternoon, most short-range guidance has been too strong with the cold/dry advection, so confidence in temperature/dewpoint forecast tonight is not great. Stayed close to statistical guidance for lows. The models continue to bring the surface low eastward through the area Monday, with winds becoming south/southeast in the west in the afternoon. The south winds will really increase through the night, as a clipper system pass by just to our north and northeast. Lows Monday night will likely be at the beginning of the period, with a slow increase through the night. The models have been pretty consistent in keeping any precipitation Monday night just northeast of our forecast area, but decided to add in the slimmest of slight chances right along the White River to blend better with my neighbors. Any precipitation would be in the form of light snow. As the surface low associated with the clipper passes east of the area early Tuesday, winds will become northwest, but the Arctic surge will not arrive until late Tuesday night. Highs on Tuesday will be tricky with some clouds, northwest winds, and a relatively mild start. Didn't stray far from the consensus of guidance, but did go a bit warmer in the south. .LONG TERM...(Wednesday through Sunday) Issued at 234 PM CST SUN JAN 4 2015 Medium confidence through the upcoming week with lower confidence headed into the weekend. The main focus or threat will be the cold temps and the dangerous wind chill values for mid week. As far as precip the best will be a slight chance of light snow or flurries this weekend. Very low confidence in measurable snow period. For about 6 hours Saturday aftn the ECMWF indicates the ice crystal growth area saturates. This was not the case with yesterdays run and the current run of the GFS which indicate lack of moisture for measurable snow...but cant rule out flurries with either model. Otherwise Wednesday night ambient temperatures will bottom out near zero. Wind chills will approach but not reach advisory criteria ranging from -5 to near -10 degrees. Those values do not reflect what the gusts may produce. The aforementioned values reflect only the sustained wind not gusts. As stated in previous discussion the models are slower with the warming trend into the weekend. This makes sense considering how difficult it is to displace dense cold air once its in place. Therefore embraced the slower warmup and slower moisture return. && .AVIATION... Issued at 505 PM CST SUN JAN 4 2015 MVFR cigs prevail into the evening, but should scatter and clear overnight as the trof axis shifts east of the Commonwealth. A few-scattered diurnal cu may develop tmrw in an otherwise drying column, as winds diminish with surface high pressure settling overhead. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IL...NONE. MO...NONE. IN...NONE. KY...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 323 PM CST SUN JAN 4 2015 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-051100- 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 PM CST SUN JAN 4 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY WIND CHILLS WILL APPROACH MINUS 10 ALONG INTERSTATE 64 WEDNESDAY. WIND CHILLS WILL DROP BELOW ZERO THROUGHOUT THE REGION WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT. REFER TO THE SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR DETAILS ON THE COLD AIR OUTBREAK FOR MUCH OF THE WEEK .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 occurred along the White River near Petersburg. Lowland flooding affected a number of rural county roads. Flooding affected low agricultural lands and low oil fields.
Minor flooding occurred along the White River near Hazleton. Floodwaters covered low ground, inundating low-lying oil fields. A couple of low rural roads were flooded.
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