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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Paducah, KY

February 24, 2001Trigg County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 24, 2001, 10:04 PM CST for Trigg County, Kentucky. It was in force for 41 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Feb 24, 2001, 10:04 PM CST (04:04 UTC)
Expired: Feb 24, 2001, 10:45 PM CST
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Trigg County, KY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Feb 24, 10:26 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Cadiz, KY	Trees were blown down near Highway 274.

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
Feb 24, 8:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 738 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 355 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 498 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.

NWS Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Feb 24, 1:45 PM CST, 8 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 24, 1:45 PM CST, 8 hours 19 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
145 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2001

MAIN PROBLEMS WITH ZONES WILL BE TIMING ENDING OF PRECIP TONIGHT/
WIND SPEEDS/POSSIBLE FLOODING THEN SKY/TEMPS ON SUNDAY.

MAIN SQUALL LINE JUST ENTERING WEST ARK AT 19Z. MODELS NOW VERY
CLOSE ON ALL FEATURES. WILL USE BLEND OVERALL...TWEAKING WITH
MESOETA HERE AND THERE.

SFC WINDS SHOULD MAX OUT THIS EVENING BEFORE SQUALPA/FROPA. WILL
MAINTAIN WINDY WORDING IN ZONES. THINK SPEEDS WILL HOLD IN 20 TO 35
MPH RANGE NEGATING NEED FOR WIND ADVISORY. DRY SLOT SHOULD HAVE
PASSED MOST OF THE PAH FA BY 2 AM. PARTIAL CLEARING WILL BE USED
SINCE MODELS SHOW SOME 1000-850MB MOISTURE LINGERING BEHIND FRONT.
THIS SAME MOISTURE WILL ALSO LOITER INTO SUNDAY AND CU RULES/
SOUNDING PROFILES SUPPORT DIURNAL BUILDUPS...WILL CONTINUE WITH
VARIABLE CLOUDINESS WORDING.  WILL BE BREEZY INITIALLY ON SUNDAY
MORNING MOST ZONES...ESPECIALLY NORTH. MAY CHOOSE TO ADD THIS TO
ZONES...THEN TALK ABOUT WINDS DIMINISHING LATE.  WILL TAKE BLEND OF
FWC AND MAV MINS FOR MOST PART.

BASED ON FFG VALUES AND HPC ESTIMATES WILL NOT CONSIDER FFA. SQUALL
LINE MAY SPEED UP LATER TODAY AS ENERGY PUNCHES AROUND BOTTOM OF LOW
ANYWAY...LIMITING TOTAL QPF.

SOME CLEARING SUNDAY NIGHT AS DIURNAL CU BURNS OFF. WITH SOME HIGH LEVEL
MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE PARTLY CLOUDY WORDING. NEXT PAC SYSTEM NOW
SLAMMING INTO CALIF COAST FORECAST TO CUTOFF. MOISTURE EJECTING OUT
OF THIS SYSTEM IN SOUTHERN STREAM WILL BEGIN ARRIVING MONDAY. WILL
CHANGE MONDAY SKY WORDING TO INCREASING CLOUDINESS. CHANCE POPS WILL
BE INTRODUCED IN WESTERN ZONES MONDAY NIGHT FOR SHOWERS AS ORGANIZED
ENERGY PULLS OUT OF SW COMBINED WITH ARCTIC FRONT FROM THE NORTH.

PROXIMITY OF ARCTIC AIR SHOULD MAKE MIDWEEK STRETCH INTERESTING.
PRECIP SHOULD EXIT AREA WEDNESDAY. COULD END AS SNOW. WILL REFLECT
THIS FOR NORTHERN ZONES BUT WILL LEAVE AS RAIN IN SOUTHERN ZONES FOR
NOW. MRF BRINGS OCCASIONAL BATCHES OF MOISTURE ACROSS THE REGION
THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. ALL IN ALL PARTLY TO MOSTLY THRU
SATURDAY...BUT WILL HOLD OFF ON MENTIONING PRECIP FOR NOW.

.PAH...NONE.

SDB

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Feb 24, 6:53 PM CST, 3 hours 11 minutes before

MOZ087-110-111-250125-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
653 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2001

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST
MISSOURI UNTIL 900 PMO...

AT 650 PM...A THUNDERSTORM NEAR PUXICO WAS MOVING RAPIDLY NORTHEAST
AT 65 MPH...AND WILL LIKELY REACH ADVANCE AT 710 PM AND CAPE
GIRARDEAU BY 720 PM. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE WINDS BETWEEN
45 TO 55 MPH AS IT MOVES NORTHEAST.

Special weather statement, Feb 24, 7:25 PM CST, 2 hours 39 minutes before

MOZ076-086-087-109>111-114-250200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
725 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2001

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST
MISSOURI UNTIL 900 PM...

AT 720 PM...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM POPLAR BLUFF TO
GREENVILLE AND SILVER LAKE MISSOURI. THIS LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT
45 MPH...AND WILL LIKELY REACH NEAR JACKSON...VANDUSER AND NEW
MADRID BY 800 PM. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE HOURLY RAINFALL TOTALS
FROM A HALF INCH TO THREE QUARTER OF AN INCH. IN ADDITION TO THE
HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH...AS WELL AS FREQUENT
LIGHTNING.

THE HEAVY RAIN MAY CAUSE BRIEF PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AS WELL
AS FILL CREEKS AND DITCHES TO BANKFULL.

Local storm report, Feb 24, 8:27 PM CST, 1 hour 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH, KY
827 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2001

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

0800 PM    MARSTON                   MO   60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
02/24/01   NEW MADRID                     POWER LINES DOWN REPORTED
                                          BY LAW ENFORCEMENT

0819 PM    CHARLESTON                MO   .75 INBCH HAIL
02/24/01   MISSISSIPPI                    WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH
                                          REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT

Local storm report, Feb 24, 8:41 PM CST, 1 hour 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH, KY
841 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2001

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

0835 PM    ARLINGTON                 KY   65 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
02/24/01   CARLISLE                       PERSISTED FOR 10 TO 15
                                          MINUTES AT NUMEROUS
                                          LOCATIONS ACROSS COUNTY
                                          ...REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

0830 PM    CAPE GIRARDEAU            MO   WIND DAMAGE
02/24/01   CAPE GIRARDEAU                 TREES DOWN ON ROUTE 439

0820 PM    ULLIN                     IL   60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
02/24/01   PULASKI

Special weather statement, Feb 24, 9:14 PM CST, 50 minutes before

ILZ080-084-088-092-MOZ076-086-087-100-107>111-114-250345-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
914 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2001

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 33 HAS EXPIRED...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST
MISSOURI AND PARTS OF SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS HAS EXPIRED. SHOWERS AND A
FEW STORMS WILL LINGER UNTIL AROUND MIDNIGHT...BUT THE THREAT OF
SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED THERE.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 35 CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM
FOR WESTERN KENTUCKY...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...AND PARTS OF SOUTHERN
ILLINOIS TO THE EAST OF CARBONDALE AND CAIRO. MISSISSIPPI COUNTY IN
MISSOURI ALSO REMAINS UNDER WATCH 35 UNTIL 100 AM.

YORK

Local storm report, Feb 24, 9:27 PM CST, 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH, KY
927 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2001

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

0835 PM    WICKLIFFE                 KY   WIND DAMAGE
02/24/01   BALLARD                        3 TREES DOWN IN THE
                                          WICKLIFFE AREA REPORTED BY
                                          SPOTTERS

0844 PM    MOUNDS                    IL   WIND DAMAGE
02/24/01   PULASKI                        UTILITY POLE SNAPPED
                                          REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT

0820 PM    WATER VALLEY              KY   .88 INCH HAIL
02/24/01   HICKMAN                        LAW ENFORCEMENT ALSO
                                          REPORTED TREES DOWN

0905 PM    CLINTON                   KY   .88 INCH HAIL
02/24/01   HICKMAN

0925 PM    HEATH                     KY   WIND DAMAGE
02/24/01   MCCRACKEN                      LARGE TREE LIMBS AND POWER
                                          LINES DOWN REPORTED BY
                                          EMERGENCY MANAGER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 24, 8:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Alexander, Union	18 min
Feb 24, 8:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Pulaski	58 min
Feb 24, 8:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Johnson	31 min
Feb 24, 8:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Massac	62 min
Feb 24, 8:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Carlisle, Fulton, Hickman	58 min
Feb 24, 8:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Graves, McCracken	62 min
Feb 24, 9:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Calloway	64 min
Feb 24, 10:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian, Todd	48 min
Feb 24, 7:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	New Madrid, Stoddard	37 min
Feb 24, 7:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Scott	16 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.