Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 144, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 8, 2001, 6:35 PM CDT for Carter County, Missouri. It was in force for 25 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
- Sep 8, 2001, 6:35 PM CDT (23:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 2001, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Carter County, MO
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 195 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 6:49 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Ellsinore, 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 nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 252 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1138 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -141 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1117 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
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 Sep 8, 2:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 8, 2:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 200 PM CDT SAT SEP 8 2001 LINE OF STORMS THAT CROSSED THE FORECAST AREA THIS MORNING HAS STABILIZED THE ATMOSPHERE. SUBSIDENCE IN THE WAKE OF THE DEPARTING SHORTWAVE MAY ALSO BE KEEPING A LID ON DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON. MAIN FORECAST CONCERN IN THE SHORT TERM IS WHEN CONVECTION WILL RETURN. WITH 20 TO 30 KNOT LOW LEVEL JET...ABUNDANT DEEP MOISTURE...AND A FEW MORE HOURS OF SURFACE HEATING...SCATTERED SHOWERS OR STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO FORM THIS AFTERNOON. MOST LIKELY AREA IS SE MISSOURI...WHERE THE ATMOSPHERE HAS HAD THE MOST TIME TO RECOVER FROM MORNING CONVECTION. A GOOD CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL RETURN TO THE ENTIRE FORECAST AREA TONIGHT. SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS WIDESPREAD CONVECTION OVER THE CENTRAL GULF COAST REGION...MOVING NORTH THROUGH THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. THIS GULF MOISTURE INFLOW IS ASSOCIATED WITH A WEAK SHORTWAVE OVER TEXAS. THIS LEAD SHORTWAVE WILL LIFT NORTHEAST TOWARD THE LOWER OHIO VALLEY TONIGHT...BRINGING GULF MOISTURE WITH IT. ETA/NGM/AVN ARE ALL TRENDING FASTER WITH THE STRONG SHORTWAVE AND ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT OVER THE PLAINS. MODELS DEVELOP A WEAK SURFACE LOW OVER CENTRAL MISSOURI BY 12Z SUNDAY...THEN TRACK IT NORTHEAST INTO THE GREAT LAKES SUNDAY NIGHT. THE TRAILING COLD FRONT CROSSES THE LOWER OHIO VALLEY LATE SUNDAY AFTERNOON OR EVENING. PASSAGE OF THE COLD FRONT AROUND THE WARMEST TIME OF DAY FAVORS WIDESPREAD COVERAGE OF THUNDERSTORMS. WIND PROFILES FROM MODEL SOUNDINGS ARE UNIDIRECTIONAL FROM 30 TO 45 KNOTS...INDICATING POTENTIAL FOR WIND IN STORMS THAT BOW. SEVERE THREAT WILL BE STRONGLY INFLUENCED BY THE EXTENT OF CLOUDS AND SHOWERS DURING THE MORNING. AVN STILL INSISTS ON SIGNIFICANTLY COOLER AND DRIER AIR FOR EARLY NEXT WEEK. 60 HOUR ETA ALSO IS POINTING IN THIS DIRECTION...SHOWING SFC DEW POINTS IN THE 50S ON MONDAY. THE REFRESHING CHANGE OF AIR MASS /SFC DEW POINTS IN THE MID 50S/ IS MAKING GOOD INROADS INTO NW MISSOURI AT THIS TIME. WILL STAY CLOSE TO THE MRF MOS /MEX/ NUMBERS DURING THE EXTENDED...WHICH SHOW LOWS IN THE 50S AND HIGHS AROUND 80. .PAH...NONE. MY
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.