Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 2001, 6:07 PM CDT for Marshall County, Kentucky. It was in force for 53 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
- Jul 9, 2001, 6:07 PM CDT (23:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2001, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marshall County, KY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 6:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Benton, KY | The roof was blown off the Wildlife Management Center building. Seven or eight large trees were blown down. Numerous power lines were down in the area. A shed off Bethel Road was completely destroyed. The damage was mainly on the east side of Benton. |
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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 1891 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1080 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
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 Jul 9, 2:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 2:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 245 PM CDT MON JUL 9 2001 FORECAST CONCERNS ARE POTENTIAL FOR ANY NEAR TERM CONVECTION AND IF THE HEAT WILL CONTINUE. LATEST KPAH RADAR SHOWERS LEFTOVER MORNING MCS PRECIP QUICKLY DISSIPATED OVER SOUTHERN HALF OF THE PAH FORECAST AREA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...COINCIDING WITH CONTINUED WARMING TOPS NOTED ON LATEST IR SATELLITE. WIDESPREAD CLOUD COVER OVER THE REGION PROMPTED THE CANCELATION OF THE HEAT WARNING FOR THE AFTERNOON OVER MUCH OF THE REGION...MAINLY EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. OUR REGION WILL REMAIN IN NORTHWEST FLOW OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS. FOR TONIGHT INTO TUESDAY WILL CONTINUE WITH LOW POPS OVER THE AREA DUE TO EXPECTED MCS DEVELOPMENT OVER THE CENTRAL PLAINS TONIGHT AND THE WEAK FRONT APPROACHING THE AREA FROM THE NORTH. EXPECT THE SYSTEM TO FOLLOW MUCH THE SAME PATH AS TODAY ALTHOUGH SLIGHTLY FARTHER WEST AS HAS BEEN THE TREND OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS AS THE CAP WEAKENS. THIS THINKING WILL ALSO BRING CLOUD COVER FARTHER WEST...THUS INHIBITING TEMPERATURES THROUGHOUT ENTIRE FA. WILL NOT CONTINUE WITH ANY HEAT ADVISORIES/WARNINGS IN THIS PACKAGE. AVN/ETA WOULD INDICATE THE WEAK FRONT APPROACHING FROM OUR NORTH WASHING OUT OVER THE REGION BY LATE TUESDAY. MAV/FWC SHOW SLIGHTLY LOWER DEW POINTS BY WEDNESDAY. THIS SHOULD FURTHER PROVIDE A LITTLE RELIEF FROM THE HEAT OF THE PAST DAYS. WILL OPT TO KEEP POPS IN ON WEDNESDAY WITH CONTINUED EXPECTED MCS DEVELOPMENT OVER THE CENTRAL PLAINS. IN THE EXTENDED...NORTHWEST FLOW WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA INTO THE WEEKEND...ALTHOUGH SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING IN FROM THE NORTH SHOULD HELP COUNTERACT THIS ALONG WITH DRIER AIR FILTERING INTO THE REGION. WILL GRADUALLY REMOVE CHANCES FROM NORTHEAST TO SOUTHWEST FROM THE EXTENDED BY FRIDAY. MAV/FWC GUIDANCE LOWS ARE VERY CLOSE...AND WILL LEAN TOWARD COOLER MAV VALUES FOR HIGHS. IN THE EXTENDED...MRF/MEX VALUES ARE SIMILAR AND ALREADY CLOSE TO VALUES IN GOING PACKAGE. WILL ONLY MAKE MINOR CHANGES. .PAH...NONE RSU
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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.