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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Paducah, KY

February 3, 2003Graves County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 3, 2003, 6:17 PM CST for Graves County, Kentucky. It was in force for 28 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
Feb 3, 2003, 6:17 PM CST (00:17 UTC)
Expired
Feb 3, 2003, 6:45 PM CST
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Graves County, KY

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:20 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 195 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 00:00Z on 2003-02-04Temperature 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 00:00Z on 2003-02-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 531 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
587 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
531 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
561 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 Feb 3, 12:53 PM CST, 5 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 3, 12:53 PM CST, 5 hours 24 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1253 PM CST MON FEB 3 2003

PRIMARY CONCERNS FOR THIS FORECAST PACKAGE CONTINUE TO BE THE COLD
FRONT AND ITS ASSOCIATED WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

COLD FRONT STRETCHING FROM NE ILLINOIS SOUTHWESTWARD ACROSS SOUTH
CENTRAL MISSOURI INTO NORTHEAST TEXAS WILL CONTINUE ITS EASTWARD
MOVEMENT AS EXPECTED. MODELS NOW VERY SIMILAR WITH TIMING OF FROPA.
AT 00Z THE FRONT SHOULD BISECT THE CWA FROM NE TO SW AND CLEAR THE
SE CORNER OF THE CWA BEFORE MIDNIGHT. A WEAK VORT MAX HAS PRODUCED A
BAND OF LIGHT SHOWERS CURRENTLY MOVING ACROSS THE CENTRAL PORTIONS
OF THE CWA. THE SHOWERS SHOULD HAVE A STABILIZING EFFECT ON THE
ATMOSPHERE LOCALLY...HOPEFULLY ENOUGH TO PRECLUDE THE DEVELOPMENT OF
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. SFC DEWPOINTS AHEAD OF THE FRONT CONTINUE TO
BE IN THE MID TO UPPER 50S...MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES FROM 6 TO 6.5
C/KM...AND DEPENDING ON WHICH MODEL YOU LOOK AT...LIFTED INDICES
HOVERING NEAR ZERO. PROVIDING THE BAND OF SHOWERS DOESNT WASH OUT
AND/OR STABILIZE THE ATMOSPHERE TOO MUCH...A LINE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS (WHICH HAS JUST DEVELOPED ALONG THE FRONT)...WILL
CROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING HOURS. INSTABILITY
AND FORCING LOOKS BETTER TO OUR SOUTH...BUT THERE IS STILL A SLIGHT
CHANCE FOR SEVERE WEATHER ACROSS OUR CWA...WITH DAMAGING STRAIGHT
LINE WINDS THE PRIMARY THREAT. THERE MAY BE A FEW FLURRIES TOWARD
MORNING IN THE WRAP AROUND MOISTURE...BUT TOO IFFY TO MENTION. COLD
ARCTIC HIGH PRESSURE TO FILTER IN BEHIND FRONT PROVIDING US WITH A
COUPLE OF DAYS OF DRY BUT COLD WEATHER. CLOUDS WILL BE ON THE
INCREASE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON IN ADVANCE OF A WEAK SHORT WAVE AND
BROAD CYCLONIC FLOW ALOFT. WITH THE PASSAGE OF THIS ENERGY THERE
WILL BE LIMITED MOISTURE SO ONLY FLURRIES ARE EXPECTED. CLOUDS WITH
THIS FEATURE WILL BE SLOW TO CLEAR...WITH SUNSHINE EXPECTED TO
RETURN ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. ON SUNDAY THE NEXT WEAK SHORT WAVE
WILL CROSS THE REGION WITH LIMITED MOISTURE. CRITICAL THICKNESSES
AND FORECAST SOUNDINGS WOULD INDICATE THIS TO BE AN ALL SNOW EVENT
(LIGHT EVENT)...BUT TEMPERATURES ARE FORECAST TO REACH INTO THE
LOWER 40S. THEREFORE WILL MENTION A CHANCE OF RAIN AND SNOW.

WILL USE A BLEND OF FWC/MAV FOR TEMPERATURES.

.PAH...NONE

JAP
Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 3, 5:00 AM CST, 13 hours 17 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
500 AM CST MON FEB 3 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...SOUTHERN
ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA AND WESTERN KENTUCKY.

.DAY ONE..TODAY AND TONIGHT.

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON
AND EARLY THIS EVENING...GENERALLY TO THE SOUTH AND EAST OF A LINE
FROM POPLAR BLUFF MISSOURI TO WINSLOW INDIANA.  A LINE OF STRONG TO
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT
ALONG OR JUST WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AROUND 3 PM.  THE LINE
WILL MOVE RAPIDLY TO THE EAST NORTHEAST...POSSIBLY PRODUCING
ISOLATED AREAS OF WIND DAMAGE ALONG ITS PATH.  THE LINE OF STORMS
SHOULD MOVE EAST OF THE AREA BY 9 PM.  SCATTERED SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE EARLIER IN THE DAY...BUT THESE STORMS
WILL REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS.

OUTSIDE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS...SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS...WITH
SUSTAINED SPEEDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH...WILL GUST UP TO 35 MPH AT TIMES
THROUGH THE DAY.  TONIGHT BEHIND THE COLD FRONT...WEST TO NORTHWEST
WINDS UP TO 25 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCIES AND STORM SPOTTER GROUPS OPERATING IN
THE OUTLOOKED AREA SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS
FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH...AND BE PREPARED TO
ACTIVATE BY 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON.

DRS

In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 3, 5:54 PM CST, 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
0554 PM CST MON FEB 03 2003

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

0510 PM    MOREHOUSE                 MO   60 MPH TSTORM WIND
02/03/03   NEW MADRID                     HALF DOZEN TREES BLOWN
                                          DOWN IN DEXTER. LARGE
                                          PORTION OF ROOF BLOWN OFF
                                          STRUCTURALLY SOUND HOME.

HOOPER
Special weather statement, Feb 3, 6:05 PM CST, 12 minutes before
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.