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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Paducah, KY

April 24, 2002Butler County, Stoddard County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 2002, 5:54 PM CDT for Butler County, Stoddard County, Missouri. It was in force for 36 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Apr 24, 2002, 5:54 PM CDT (22:54 UTC)
Expired: Apr 24, 2002, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Butler County, MO, Stoddard County, MO

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Time	Report	Where
Apr 24, 5:59 PM CDT	Hail 1	Dudley, MO
Apr 24, 6:19 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Poplar Bluff, MO
Apr 24, 6:25 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Bernie, MO

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.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 24, 2:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 217 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: 749 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -185 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 776 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 164 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 225 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KPAH 242254
SVRPAH
MOC023-207-242330-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
554 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BUTLER COUNTY IN MISSOURI
  STODDARD COUNTY IN MISSOURI

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 550 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM DUDLEY TO 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  POPLAR BLUFF...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE...
  OVER POPLAR BLUFF...FISK...3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DEXTER AT 600 PM   
  CDT.
  OVER BERNIE AT 625 PM CDT.

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REPLACES THE TORNADO WARNING.

IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER
AWAY FROM CREEK BEDS AND OTHER FLOOD PRONE AREAS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DESTRUCTIVE WINDS...
DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REPORT SEVERE 
WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. 

LAT...LON 3688 9000 3688 9067 3659 9039 3664 8975

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 Apr 24, 3:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 24, 3:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
315 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002

WILL KEEP DISCUSSION SHORT DUE TO SVR WX AND GRID TRANSFER PROBLEMS
IN IFPS.

CURRENT FCST WILL TREND SVR POTENTIAL EWD THROUGH CWA THROUGH 03Z.
THREAT SHOULD DIMINISH MARKEDLY FROM 03Z TO 06Z...AS FROPA MOVES
EAST OF FCST AREA. GIVE HIGH PWS...SUSPECT LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL
ALSO BE A THREAT WITH THE SCATTERED WIND/HAIL DAMAGE POTENTIAL.

AFTER TONIGHT...I WILL KEEP MENTION OF SHWRS ONLY FOR FRIDAY...WITH
A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY. I INCREASED POP FOR
MONDAY INTO TUESDAY PCPN EVENT...AS MEDIUM RANGE ENSEMBLES STILL
SHOW A FOCUSED BOUNDARY AND LIFT OVER THE AREA. ALTHOUGH A SMALL
CHANCE OF PCPN IS POSSIBLE ON WEDNESDAY...WILL KEEP IT DRY AT THIS
TIME.

FOR MAX/MIN TEMPS...WENT SLIGHTLY WARMER THAN MAV GUIDANCE IN SHORT
TERM...THEN SLIGHTLY COOLER THAN MEX /NOW AVN EXTENDED/ MOS GUIDANCE.

MANUALLY GENERATED ZONES SHOULD BE AVAILABLE NO LATER THAN 4 PM. CCF
WILL DELAYED A LITTLE LONGER.

.PAH...NONE.

SMITH

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 24, 5:03 PM CDT, 51 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
503 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0455 PM                              MO   TORNADO
04/24/02   BUTLER                         REPORTED BY STATE POLICE
                                          IN NORTHERN BUTLER. ON
                                          THE GROUND ALONG HIGHWAY
                                          417.

Local storm report, Apr 24, 5:13 PM CDT, 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
513 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0509 PM    1S HENDRICKSON            MO   TORNADO
04/24/02   BUTLER                         TORNADO ON THE GROUND.
                                          EASTBOUND ON HIGHWAY 67
                                          AND O HIGHWAY. STRUCTURAL
                                          DAMAGE WITH ROOFS OFF.

Local storm report, Apr 24, 5:17 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
517 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0510 PM    3N POPLAR BLUFF           MO   TORNADO
04/24/02   BUTLER                         TORNADO ON THE GROUND
                                          REPORTED BY STATE
                                          POLICE.

0513 PM    EQUALITY                  IL   TORNADO
04/24/02   GALLATIN                       REPORTED BY SPOTTER AND
                                          FIRE DEPARTMENT

440  PM    EQUALITY                  IL   2.50 INCH HAIL
04/24/02   GALLATIN                       REPORTED BY FIRE
                                          DEPARTMENT

0516 PM                              IN   1.00 INCH HAIL
04/24/02   VANDERBURGH                    DIME TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL
                                          NEAR EVANSVILLE. REPORTED
                                          BY EMA.

Local storm report, Apr 24, 5:22 PM CDT, 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
522 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0456 PM    HIGHWAY 67                MO   1.00 INCH HAIL
04/24/02   BUTLER                         DIME TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL
                                          REPORTED BY EM

0525 PM    DUQUOIN                   IL   0.75 INCH HAIL
04/24/02   PERRY                          REPORTED BY ESDA

Local storm report, Apr 24, 5:35 PM CDT, 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
535 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0532 PM    3W SHAWNEETOWN            IL   FUNNEL CLOUD
04/24/02   GALLATIN                       REPORTED BY STATE POLICE.
                                          ALONG ROUTE 13...3 MILES
                                          EAST OF ROUTE 1.

Local storm report, Apr 24, 5:53 PM CDT, 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
553 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0546 PM    STANLEY                   KY   0.75 INCH HAIL
04/24/02   DAVIESS                        REPORTED BY EMA.

0535 PM    3W DUDLEY                 MO   TORNADO
04/24/02   BUTLER                         REPORTED BY STATE POLICE.
                                          TOUCHED DOWN THEN WENT
                                          BACK UP

0536 PM    GORDONVILLE               MO   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/24/02   CAPE GIRARDEAU                 REPORTED BY CAPE
                                          GIRARDEAU MEDIA

0538 PM    4N ZION                   KY   1.00 INCH HAIL
04/24/02   HENDERSON                      REPORTED BY PUBLIC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 23, 11:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Carter	50 min
Apr 24, 12:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Carter, Ripley	24 min
Apr 24, 12:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Butler	42 min
Apr 24, 7:28 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Scott, Stoddard, Wayne	3 hr
Apr 24, 3:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Carter	57 min
Apr 24, 4:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Carter	34 min
Apr 24, 4:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Butler	40 min
Apr 24, 4:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Wayne	39 min
Apr 24, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Bollinger	58 min
Apr 24, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Carter	23 min
Apr 24, 5:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Butler, Stoddard	62 min
Apr 24, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Wayne	47 min
Apr 24, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Cape Girardeau	43 min
Apr 24, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Wayne	44 min
Apr 24, 6:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Scott, Stoddard	25 min
Apr 24, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	New Madrid	64 min
Apr 24, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Butler	47 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.