Some residual minor flooding on the Wabash and Ohio Rivers ended on the first day of the month as conditions dried out.
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The episode as NWS PAH wrote it up.
Some residual minor flooding on the Wabash and Ohio Rivers ended on the first day of the month as conditions dried out.
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 31, 11:23 PM CST, 37 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Paducah KY 1123 PM CST Tue Jan 31 2017 .UPDATE... Issued at 1118 PM CST Tue Jan 31 2017 For aviation discussion only. && .SHORT TERM...(Tonight through Thursday night) Issued at 214 PM CST Tue Jan 31 2017 Above average confidence through the short term due to good model agreement and continued lack of tangible weather. A weak cold front that slowly moved into our CWA late last night/early this morning has temporarily become quasi-stationary from NE-SW across western Kentucky and far southeast Missouri. The front is expected to show little to no movement through Wednesday morning, then will get pushed further south and east of our area as high pressure filters in. Even with the presence of the boundary across our CWA, due to a lack of moisture no precipitation is expected. Models are hinting at a layer of moisture pooling north of the front and just north of our CWA but again due to the shallow nature of the layer no precipitation is expected. Light precipitation may form on the aforementioned frontal boundary just to the south and east of our CWA on Wednesday, but is not expected to move northward into our area. High pressure slowly overspreading the area in the wake of the front should keep the region dry through the end of the short term period. Temperatures will remain a few degrees above normal through Wednesday night, then cool back to near normal through the rest of the period. .LONG TERM...(Friday through Tuesday) Issued at 214 PM CST Tue Jan 31 2017 Confidence fairly high through the weekend but models have mixed scenario next week...mainly with timing. Fairly confidence another system will move through next week. The latest blend has come in warmer but still well below ECMWF or GFS MOS guidance. However the warming trend with each model run continues. This has resulted less and less snowfall for the area. Latest runs indicate southwest Indiana could have up to an inch fall Saturday night. Everywhere else in the fa...much less if any. The freezing line runs from near Mt vernon IL to Henderson KY and keeps migrating northward with each run. Now The models start to diverge with timing of the system next week. They did agree starting the precip chances a little earlier than previous runs starting Monday. They agree on a zonal flow with a weak perturbation aloft and an associated low pressure system at the surface. This will be our weekend event. Next week a fully will approach the area with another low at the surface. By early Tuesday maintained at least a slight chc of thunder with LI's going negative and around 1500 j/kg2 of CAPE. That is mainly from the GFS which seems to be a little stronger with the system. However the GFS moves the system on through where the ECMWF wants to hang it up with more residence time over the area. Qpf was a little less for parts of the area than previous runs but not nearly the decrease we have been seeing run to run. Finally the models are really warming us up next with temperatures coming in nearly 20 degrees above normal by Tuesday. && .AVIATION... Issued at 1120 PM CST Tue Jan 31 2017 VFR conditions should prevail at all sites through the period as high pressure overspreads the region. However KCGI/KPAH will likely see cigs in the 6-8 kft range during the day Wednesday. Northerly winds will remain AOB 10 kts. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IL...None. MO...None. IN...None. KY...None. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 344 AM CST TUE JAN 31 2017 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-011100- JEFFERSON-WAYNE IL-EDWARDS-WABASH-PERRY IL-FRANKLIN-HAMILTON- WHITE-JACKSON-WILLIAMSON-SALINE-GALLATIN-UNION-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- 344 AM CST TUE JAN 31 2017 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS, SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA, WESTERN KENTUCKY, AND SOUTHEASTERN MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY A CHANCE OF SNOW IS FORECAST FOR MUCH OF THE REGION SATURDAY NIGHT INTO EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. AT THIS TIME...CONSIDERABLE FORECAST UNCERTAINTY EXISTS...BUT SOME MINOR ACCUMULATIONS CANNOT BE RULED OUT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Minor flooding ended on the Ohio River in the Shawneetown area. The minor flooding began in January. Some low-lying fields and woodlands were underwater.
Minor flooding on the Wabash River ended shortly after midnight. The flooding began in January. Some low-lying fields were underwater.
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