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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Paducah, KY

April 3, 2001Calloway County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 2001, 5:52 PM CDT for Calloway County, Kentucky. It was in force for 38 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued
Apr 3, 2001, 5:52 PM CDT (22:52 UTC)
Expired
Apr 3, 2001, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Calloway County, KY

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 166 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 2001-04-03Temperature 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2001-04-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 419 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1003 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
419 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
489 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 032253
SVRPAH

KYC035-032330-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
552 PM CDT TUE APR 3 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CALLOWAY COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 551 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES WEST OF MURRAY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
  45 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
  MURRAY
  HARRIS GROVE

LAT...LON 3675 8849 3654 8849 3651 8810 3667 8814

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 3, 5:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHGraves35 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.