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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Paducah, KY

August 10, 1992Wayne County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 1992, 2:57 PM CDT for Wayne County, Missouri. It was in force for 28 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 10, 1992, 2:57 PM CDT (19:57 UTC)
Expired
Aug 10, 1992, 3:25 PM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Wayne County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 156 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Paducah/Barkley, KY at 12:00Z on 1992-08-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Paducah/Barkley, KY at 12:00Z on 1992-08-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -34 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-11 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 10, 12:10 PM CDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before
INZ011-014-KYZ002-003-ILZ012-014-101740-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN
1205 PM CDT MON AUG 10 1992

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE FORMING OVER MUCH OF WESTERN KENTUCKY AT
NOON.

THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE FROM 25 TO 50 MILES SOUTH OF
EVANSVILLE JUST SOUTH OF CORYDON AND BETWEEN DIXON AND MADISONVILLE.
THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY EAST AND WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY
RAIN GUSTY WINDS ALONG WITH SOME SMALL HAIL. THERE WILL BE SOME LOCAL
URBAN AND LOW LAND FLOODING WITH THESE STORMS.

BE PREPARED TO TAKE COVER WHEN THESE STORMS APPROACH. VISIBILITY WILL
BE NEAR ZERO IN THE HEAVIER RAIN ALONG THE PENNYRILE PARKWAY AND WESTERN
KENTUCKY PARKWAY AROUND MADISONVILLE.
BLOCK
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 12:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
INZ011-014-KYZ002-003-ILZ012-014-101845-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN
1243 PM CDT MON AUG 10 1992

AT 1230 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE FORMING OVER WESTERN KENTUCKY.

THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OWENSBORO...NEAR
DAWSON SPRINGS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY
WINDS WITH POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. THE AREA AROUND THE WESTERN KENTUCKY
AND PENNYRILE PARKWAY COULD EXPERIENCE FLOODING DUE TO THE HEAVY RAINS.

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG THE KENTUCKY TENNESSEE BORDER AND EXTENDED
TO 40 MILES WEST OF NASHVILLE.

SHOWERS WERE ALSO IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS FROM MOUNT VERNON ILLINOIS TO
20 MILES NORTHWEST OF PADUCAH.

THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH.
NIEMEIER
Local storm report, Aug 10, 2:17 PM CDT, 40 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN
217 PM CDT MON AUG 10 1992

PRELIMINARY STORM REPORT FOR SEVERE WEATHER EVENT ON AUG 10 1992

145 PM CDT...TREES BLOWN DOWN BETWEEN GUTHRIE AND TRENTON KENTUCKY
             IN TODD COUNTY. REPORTED BY DOT COUNTY PERSONNEL.

BLOCK
Local storm report, Aug 10, 2:24 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN
225 PM CDT MON AUG 10 1992

ADDITION TO STORM REPORT FOR SEVERE WEATHER EVENT ON AUG 8 1992

835 AM CDT...TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN ON GARY LANE SOUTH OF HOPKINSVILLE
             KENTUCKY IN CHRISTIAN COUNTY BY DES COORDINATOR.

840 AM CDT...TOPS OUT OF LARGE TREES  NORTHEAST OF FAIRVIEW KENTUCKY...
             CHRISTIAN COUNTY BY DES.

915 AM CDT...TREES DOWN NORTHEAST OF
SHARON GROVE KENTUCKY IN TODD COUNTY
             BY ASCS OFFICE.

BLOCK
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 2:28 PM CDT, 29 minutes before
MOZ022-023-ILZ013>015-KYZ001-102030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
220 PM CDT MON AUG 10 1992

...THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PRODUCED HEAVY RAINS OVER PARTS OF WEST KENTUCKY
THIS AFTERNOON...

AT 215 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR AT PADUCAH SHOWED AN AREA OF SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...OVER PARTS OF WEST KENTUCKY.
THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER MARSHALL COUNTY...JUST NORTH OF
BENTON...ABOUT 20 MILES EAST OF PADUCAH AND ALONG THE LYON...CALDWELL
COUNTY BORDER ABOUT 5 MILES EAST OF PRINCTON...35 MILES EAST OF
PADUCAH. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.

SOME OF THE STORMS THAT HAVE PASSED OVER THE REGION HAVE DUMPED AS MUCH
AS TWO INCHES OF RAIN...CAUSING SOME FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW
LYING AREAS.  ADDITIONAL RAINFALL FROM THESE STRONG STORMS WILL ADD
THE PROBLEM.

IF RISING WATER THREATENS...SEEK HIGHER GROUND IMMEDEATLY.
MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH hWATER COVERED
ROADWAYS...THE WATER MAY BE DEEPER THAN YOU THINK.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.
DAO
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 2:35 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 10, 12:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCalloway, Marshall, Trigg58 min
Aug 10, 2:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHCaldwell2 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.