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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Paducah, KY

April 16, 2000Scott County, Stoddard County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 2000, 6:10 PM CDT for Scott County, Stoddard County, Missouri. It was in force for 50 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Apr 16, 2000, 6:10 PM CDT (23:10 UTC)
Expired: Apr 16, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Scott County, MO, Stoddard County, MO

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 16, 6:15 PM CDT	Hail 1	Oran, MO
Apr 16, 6:30 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Bloomfield, MO

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 16, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 242 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 851 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 165 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 173 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KPAH 162311
SVRPAH
MOC201-207-170000-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
610 PM CDT SUN APR 16 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SCOTT COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI
  STODDARD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 608 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM PUXICO TO 8 MILES
  WEST OF BELL CITY TO 4 MILES NORTH OF ORAN...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE...
  7 MILES NORTH OF BLOOMFIELD AT 630 PM CDT
  OVER BELL CITY AT 645 PM CDT
  OVER BENTON AT 655 PM CDT

RADAR INDICATED HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS IS LIKELY WITH THIS
STORM. MOVE TO SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED THROUGH.

LAT...LON 3688 9033 3703 9004 3717 8964 3716 8946
          3715 8944 3678 8992

MY/CN

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.

NWS Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 16, 1:25 PM CDT, 4 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 16, 1:25 PM CDT, 4 hours 45 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
125 PM CDT SUN APR 16 2000

SFC LOW OVER SW IOWA AT 18Z WITH TRAILING FRONT ACROSS CENTRAL MO
INTO CENTRAL AR. VORT LOBE MOVING ACROSS THE AREA AN EXTENSION FROM
THE MAIN UPPER LOW NEAR OMA...TRIGGERING SHRA/ISOLD TSRA OVER SRN
IL INTO WRN KY...HEADED FOR SW INDIANA PER LATEST 88D PICTURES.
MEANWHILE OVER CENTRAL MO...BREAKS IN THE CLOUDS HAVE ALLOWED TEMPS
TO RISE TO ABOUT 70 DEGREES WITH DEW POINTS NEAR 60. BEST CONVERGENCE
IS OVER CENTRAL MO...WHERE LIS ARE -5 TO -6...AND CONVECTION IS
INCREASING. THIS ACTIVITY MAY CONTINUE TO DEVELOP SOUTHWARD ALONG THE
FRONTAL BOUNDARY THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON...EVENTUALLY MOVING INTO
SE MO.

UPPER LOW TO MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN MO INTO CENTRAL IL TONIGHT...WITH
FRONT CROSSING THE AREA FROM WEST TO EAST BETWEEN 02Z AND 08Z.
THIS TIME FRAME IS ALSO WHEN BEST DYNAMICAL FORCING WILL BE
PRESENT PER H8-H5 OMEGA CHARTS. WILL CARRY MENTION OF THUNDERSTORMS
MAINLY FOR THE EVENING WESTERN ZONES AND EARLY TONIGHT EASTERN
ZONES...UNTIL THE FRONT AND FAVORABLE CONVECTIVE PARAMETERS SHIFTS
EAST. NEARLY ALL OF THE ACTION...ACTIVITY SHOULD BE EAST OF
THE AREA AFTER MIDNIGHT. GUIDANCE AND GOING ZFP NOS FOR LOWS SEEM
O.K.

ON MONDAY...UPPER LOW WILL GRADUALLY MOVE ACROSS INDIANA INTO
NORTHERN KENTUCKY. ALL THE MODELS INDICATE WRAPPED IN LOW-LEVEL
MSTR SHOULD RESULT IN CONSIDERABLE CLOUDINESS IN CYCLONIC UPPER FLOW
REGIME. NGM EVEN PAINTS LIS BELOW ZERO NE COUNTIES...AND
GENERATES SOME QPF. THIS MAY BE A LITTLE OVERDONE...BUT WOULDNT
RULE OUT A LIGHT SHOWER OR SPRINKLE NORTHEASTERN COUNTIES TOWARD SW
INDIANA...SO WILL INTRODUCE AGAIN LOW POPS. COOLER NW FLOW AND CAA
SHOULD KEEP AFTN TEMPS MONDAY MORE IN LINE WITH FAN NUMBERS.

THEREAFTER...RIDGING TO BUILD IN TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...BEFORE
BREAKING BACK DOWN BY THURSDAY...PER THE LATEST EXTENDED PROGS.
FRONT TO MOVE THROUGH ON THURSDAY...SO WILL GO AHEAD AND INTRODUCE
A CHC OF SHRA/TSRA FOR THURSDAY.

.PAH...NONE.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 16, 4:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

MOZ086-100-110-162230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
442 PM CDT SUN APR 16 2000

AT 442 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES WEST OF ZALMA...OR ABOUT 20 MILES EAST
OF PIEDMONT...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
     NEAR ZALMA AROUND 515 PM CDT
     6 MILES NORTHWEST OF ADVANCE AT 530 PM CDT

PEA SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN GREENVILLE AROUND 435 PM. REMAIN INDOORS
UNTIL THE ACTIVITY HAS PASSED.

Local storm report, Apr 16, 6:05 PM CDT, 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
605 PM CDT SUN APR 16 2000

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0800 PM    CAIRO                     IL   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/16/00   ALEXANDER                      REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 16, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Wayne	24 min
Apr 16, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Stoddard	34 min
Apr 16, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Scott, Stoddard	39 min
Apr 16, 5:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Scott, Stoddard	36 min
Apr 16, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Stoddard	48 min

Nearby

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Sources

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