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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Paducah, KY

April 6, 2003Ripley County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 6, 2003, 1:18 PM CDT for Ripley County, Missouri. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Apr 6, 2003, 1:18 PM CDT (18:18 UTC)
Expired
Apr 6, 2003, 1:45 PM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ripley County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 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 12:00Z on 2003-04-06Temperature 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2003-04-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 535 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
945 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
535 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
736 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.4

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The text

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

716 
WUUS53 KPAH 061818
SVRPAH
MOC181-061845-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
117 PM CDT SUN APR 6 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH KENTUCKY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  RIPLEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 145 PM CDT

* AT 117 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTH OF DONIPHAN...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 55 MPH.

UP TO ONE INCH HAIL IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A 
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

LAT...LON 3651 9093 3652 9061 3680 9063 3680 9087

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 6, 1:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHStoddard32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

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.