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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 203, NWS Paducah, KY

October 24, 2001Christian County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 24, 2001, 6:31 PM CDT for Christian County, Kentucky. It was in force for 29 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 24, 2001, 6:31 PM CDT (23:31 UTC)
Expired
Oct 24, 2001, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Christian County, KY

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Oct 24, 6:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 116 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2001-10-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 675 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2001-10-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 274 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
675 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
770 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
274 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
273 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.1

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The text

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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 Oct 24, 1:50 PM CDT, 4 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 24, 1:50 PM CDT, 4 hours 41 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
150 PM CDT WED OCT 24 2001

BIGGEST CHALLENGE IS SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL THROUGH THIS EVENING.

LATEST SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWED A LOW OVER THE WESTERN GREAT LAKES
REGION. A STRONG COLD FRONT DROPPED SOUTH-SOUTHWEST FROM THE LOW
ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS...WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST
MISSOURI...NORTHWEST ARKANSAS...INTO NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS.
ACCOMPANYING THE FRONT IS A VIGOROUS SHORT WAVE. THIS SYSTEM WILL
PLOW ACROSS OUR CWA THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. AHEAD OF THE
FRONT THE ATMOSPHERE IS VERY UNSTABLE (MODIFIED BNA SOUNDING SHOWED
: K INDEX 36...LI -9...SWEAT 422...CAPE 2935). WIND SHEAR PROFILES
IN THE LOWEST LEVELS INDICATE SUFFICIENT CLOCKWISE TURNING TO
GENERATE ROTATING UPDRAFTS IN THE STRONGER STORMS. STRONG WINDS
THROUGH THE ENTIRE COLUMN AND SWIFT MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS
THEMSELVES WILL MAKE STRONG DOWNBURSTS A GOOD POSSIBILITY AS WELL.
THE FRONT WILL CLEAR THE EASTERN PART OF OUR CWA BY LATE AFTERNOON.
IN THE WAKE OF THIS SYSTEM HIGH PRESSURE AT THE SURFACE AND
INCREASING HEIGHTS ALOFT SHOULD KEEP OUR REGION DRY THROUGH NEXT
WEDNESDAY.  TEMPERATURES...HOWEVER WILL BE COOLER...WITH A
REINFORCING SHOT OF EVEN COOLER AIR OVERSPREADING THE REGION ON
FRIDAY.

.PAH...TORNADO WATCHES 797 & 798 IN EFFECT FOR THE ENTIRE CWA
THROUGH 7 PM.

JAP

In the hours before

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 24, 2:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHJackson, Perry40 min
Oct 24, 2:41 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHPerry34 min
Oct 24, 2:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHJefferson57 min
Oct 24, 2:55 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHJackson35 min
Oct 24, 2:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHFranklin46 min
Oct 24, 3:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHHamilton, Wayne50 min
Oct 24, 3:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHWilliamson50 min
Oct 24, 3:19 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHFranklin26 min
Oct 24, 3:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHJackson33 min
Oct 24, 3:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHJohnson, Pope, Saline41 min
Oct 24, 3:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHEdwards, Wabash, White67 min
Oct 24, 3:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHAlexander, Pulaski, Union35 min
Oct 24, 3:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHFranklin16 min
Oct 24, 3:49 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHSaline26 min
Oct 24, 3:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHHamilton17 min
Oct 24, 3:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHWilliamson17 min
Oct 24, 4:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHGallatin65 min
Oct 24, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHMassac46 min
Oct 24, 4:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHHardin, Pope41 min
Oct 24, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHGraves, Marshall46 min
Oct 24, 4:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHHenderson56 min
Oct 24, 4:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHFulton, Hickman37 min
Oct 24, 4:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCrittenden, Livingston, Lyon63 min
Oct 24, 4:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCaldwell, Hopkins, Webster63 min
Oct 24, 4:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHGraves, McCracken, Marshall61 min
Oct 24, 4:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCarlisle, Fulton, Hickman61 min
Oct 24, 5:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHDaviess, McLean64 min
Oct 24, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHHenderson30 min
Oct 24, 5:20 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHCalloway40 min
Oct 24, 5:24 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHDaviess51 min
Oct 24, 5:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHChristian, Trigg53 min
Oct 24, 5:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHMuhlenberg, Todd65 min
Oct 24, 2:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHPerry52 min
Oct 24, 2:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCarter48 min
Oct 24, 2:26 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHPerry34 min
Oct 24, 2:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHBollinger, Cape Girardeau38 min
Oct 24, 2:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHWayne50 min
Oct 24, 2:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHPerry47 min
Oct 24, 3:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHButler, Ripley40 min
Oct 24, 3:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHBollinger, Cape Girardeau, Scott, Stoddard44 min
Oct 24, 3:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHNew Madrid, Scott, Stoddard41 min
Oct 24, 3:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHMississippi41 min
Oct 24, 4:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHMississippi, New Madrid43 min

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.