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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 180, NWS Paducah, KY

July 3, 2002Todd County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2002, 3:28 PM CDT for Todd County, Kentucky. It was in force for 32 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: Jul 3, 2002, 3:28 PM CDT (20:28 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2002, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Todd County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 94 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 344 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -217 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1103 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jul 3, 2:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 2:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 3, 5:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian	27 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 2002 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.