Despite another wet month, the Mississippi River dropped below flood stage in August. Drier weather tried to settle into the area, but abundant moisture triggered locally heavy downpours.
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Despite another wet month, the Mississippi River dropped below flood stage in August. Drier weather tried to settle into the area, but abundant moisture triggered locally heavy downpours. Rainfall was not widespread enough to generate renewed flooding on the Mississippi.
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 31, 5:30 PM CST, 6 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Paducah KY 630 PM CDT Wed Jul 31 2019 .UPDATE... Issued at 626 PM CDT Wed Jul 31 2019 For aviation section only. && .SHORT TERM...(Tonight through Friday night) Issued at 243 PM CDT Wed Jul 31 2019 High pressure over the Great Lakes will keep our region high and dry into Thursday night. Models show another MCS developing and moving into south central Missouri late tonight into Thursday morning. Cloud cover from this system will push into our far western counties Thursday morning, but the rest of our region will remain mostly sunny. A similar scenario is possible Thursday night into Friday morning. Models indicate there is better potential for at least some convective activity to make it into the Ozark foothills of southeast Missouri on Friday, and continued with some slight to low chances for showers and thunderstorms for our far west counties. The presence of an upper level trof extending into the middle Mississippi valley will continue these small chances across the same area into Friday night. Temperatures will remain a bit below seasonal normals through Friday. Dew points will remain generally in the middle 60s into Friday, then we will see a gradual increase in low level moisture late Friday into Friday night. .LONG TERM...(Saturday through Wednesday) Issued at 243 PM CDT Wed Jul 31 2019 The upper level flow pattern will remain nearly unchanged next week. A strong upper ridge will sit over the Rocky Mountains while weak troughing persists from the upper Ohio Valley to the Gulf coast. This spells a continuation of a mainly dry and warm pattern for our region. Daytime highs will be in the mid to upper 80s, and overnight lows will be in the mid to upper 60s. The forecast will contain a slight chance of diurnal storms most afternoons and evenings due to the proximity of the upper trough. There is also the possibility of weak shortwaves rounding the top of the Rocky Mountain ridge and coming southeast into the Mississippi Valley. However, a large surface high over the upper Mississippi Valley will produce a weak northeast wind, which will suppress the better moisture and instability to our south. Overall, it looks quite dry well into next week. && .AVIATION... Issued at 626 PM CDT Wed Jul 31 2019 High pressure to keep the region under VFR conditions. Exception may be some early AM patchy fog. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IL...None. MO...None. IN...None. KY...None. && UPDATE...GM SHORT TERM...RST LONG TERM...MY AVIATION...GM
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Paducah KY 528 PM CDT Wed Jul 31 2019 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-011000- 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- 528 PM CDT Wed Jul 31 2019 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of southern Illinois, southwest Indiana, western Kentucky, and southeast Missouri. .DAY ONE...Tonight No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday There is a very small chance for isolated, mainly heat of day thunderstorms, over the weekend. Locally heavy rainfall and lightning will be the primary storm related hazards. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will not be needed.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The prolonged Mississippi River flooding that began in mid March finally ended in early August. There was still some minor flooding of low-lying fields in early August, otherwise the flooding impacts ended by early August.
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