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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Paducah, KY

May 31, 2001Butler County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2001, 12:09 AM CDT for Butler County, Missouri. It was in force for 36 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
May 31, 2001, 12:09 AM CDT (05:09 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 2001, 12:45 AM CDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Butler County, MO

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 31, 12:30 AM CDTThunderstorm Wind 50 EHendrickson, MOLarge tree limbs were blown down.

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 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 214 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, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 2001-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1841 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, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 2001-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 216 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
1841 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
965 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
216 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
316 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.9
Supercell composite
19.8

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.