The active June weather pattern continued through July, bringing fronts that moved across the region's river basins. The rainfall was sufficient to raise sections of the lower Ohio River slightly above flood stage.
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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 active June weather pattern continued through July, bringing fronts that moved across the region's river basins. The rainfall was sufficient to raise sections of the lower Ohio River slightly above flood stage.
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 Jul 15, 1:37 PM CST, 1 hour 23 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 237 PM CDT WED JUL 15 2015 .SHORT TERM...(THIS EVENING THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT) ISSUED AT 1242 PM CDT WED JUL 15 2015 THE SHORT TERM IS INCREASINGLY CHARACTERIZED BY THE INFLUENCE OF THE STRONG UPPER HIGH ALOFT...WHICH SUPPRESSES MOST IF NOT ALL CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY/PCPN FOR THE AREA. AS A RESULT...BARRING LAST MINUTE COLLAB PICTURE ADJUSTMENTS...WE'LL LIKELY ELIMINATE WHAT LITTLE REMAINS OF MENTIONALBE POPS...ACKNOWLEDGING HOWEVER THAT A 10 PERCENT ISOLATED RISK REMAINS. AS THE DOME OF HIGH PRESSURE ARCS ACROSS THE TN VALLEY WITH TIME...SO TOO WILL THE COMPASS OF THE HEAT/HUMIDITY IN THE LOWER TROPOSPHERIC AIR OVERHEAD. AS A RESULT...TEMPS WILL MAKE A GRADUAL UPWARD TICK AND BE HOVERING JUST BELOW HEAT ADVISORY CRITERIA BY FRIDAY. .LONG TERM...(SATURDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY) ISSUED AT 237 PM CDT WED JUL 15 2015 A WEAK UPPER LEVEL WAVE MAY TRIGGER A FEW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS OUR NORTHEAST AND EASTERN COUNTIES ON SATURDAY, AND INCLUDED SOME LOW POPS FOR THESE AREAS. OTHERWISE, AN UPPER LEVEL HIGH OVER TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST FLOW AT THE SURFACE WILL KEEP US HOT AND HUMID THROUGH THE WEEKEND. TEMPERATURES WILL REACH THE MIDDLE 90S BOTH SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, AND WITH DEW POINTS IN THE LOWER 70S, HEAT INDICES WILL REACH AROUND 105 DEGREES BOTH DAYS. MODELS SHOW A COLD FRONT APPROACHING FROM THE NORTH SUNDAY, WHICH WILL BRING BACK SMALL CHANCES OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO MAINLY OUR NORTHERN COUNTIES SUNDAY NIGHT. MODELS BRING THE FRONT THROUGH THE PAH FORECAST AREA MONDAY INTO MONDAY NIGHT, THEN LINGER IT JUST TO OUR SOUTH INTO TUESDAY. WENT WITH CHANCE POPS FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY, THEN SLIGHT CHANCE POPS MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY. THERE IS SOME QUESTION AS TO HOW FAR SOUTH AND HOW LONG THE FRONT WILL HANG AROUND, BUT FOR NOW KEPT TUESDAY NIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY DRY. WITH MODELS TAKING THE FRONT ON THROUGH THE AREA BY MONDAY NIGHT, GUIDANCE SHOWS SOME MILD RELIEF FROM THE HEAT FOR TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL FALL BACK INTO THE 85 TO 90 DEGREE RANGE. && .AVIATION... ISSUED AT 1242 PM CDT WED JUL 15 2015 DIURNALLY DRIVEN CU WILL HAVE HIGH MVFR TO LOW VFR BASES IN THE SCATTERED (WEST) TO AT TIMES BROKEN CIG (EAST) CATEGORY. AFTER LOSS OF DIURNAL FUEL...EXPECT SKIES TO CLEAR SAVE FOR POTENTIAL UPSTREAM CONVECTIVE DEBRIS CLOUD BLOWING OVER. SIMILAR LOW BASED CU WILL DEVELOP LATE IN THE PLANNING PERIOD TMRW MORNING. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IL...NONE. MO...NONE. IN...NONE. KY...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 459 AM CDT WED JUL 15 2015 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-161000- 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- 459 AM CDT WED JUL 15 2015 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...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY A SMALL CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS RETURNS TO THE LOWER WABASH VALLEY FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...AND TO THE ENTIRE REGION BY MONDAY AND TUESDAY. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP SHOULD REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. HEAT INDEX VALUES AROUND 105 DEGREES ARE LIKELY FROM FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY. A HEAT ADVISORY MAY BE REQUIRED FOR THE PROLONGED HEAT AND HUMIDITY LATER THIS WEEK. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST RIVER FLOOD WARNINGS AND STATEMENTS FOR INFORMATION ABOUT AREA RIVER FLOODING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Minor flooding occurred along the Ohio River. Low-lying fields and woodlands near the river were underwater.
Minor flooding occurred along the Ohio River. Farm land and some main roads were flooded in places southwest and west of Mt. Vernon.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Indiana in 2015Every state in 2015This day in weather historyWarnings in Indiana, July 2015
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: 589155, 589156.