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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 215, NWS Paducah, KY

June 11, 2003Mississippi County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2003, 3:26 AM CDT for Mississippi County, Missouri. It was in force for 34 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
Jun 11, 2003, 3:26 AM CDT (08:26 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 2003, 4:00 AM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Mississippi County, MO

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:29 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 230 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 00:00Z on 2003-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2822 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2003-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 77 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2822 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1070 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.7
Supercell composite
4.2

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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 Jun 11, 2:55 AM CDT, 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 2:55 AM CDT, 31 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 10, 3:50 AM CDT, 23 hours 36 minutes before
ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087-100-
107>112-114-111000-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
350 AM CDT TUE JUN 10 2003

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A RISK FOR ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT.
THE MAIN HAZARDS WILL BE STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WINDS...AND
LARGE HAIL. A FEW OF THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY. ISOLATED SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS CANNOT BE RULED OUT. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE
VERY HEAVY RAIN.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED TODAY AND TONIGHT.

NOLES

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 11, 12:16 AM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before
ILZ080-084-MOZ076-110615-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1216 AM CDT WED JUN 11 2003

...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR GUSTY WINDS TO 50
MPH APPROACHING THE PERRYVILLE MISSOURI AND PINCKNEYVILLE ILLINOIS
AREAS...

AT 1210 AM...THE LEADING EDGE OF THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED
FROM ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF SPARTA ILLINOIS TO JUST WEST OF
PERRYVILLE MISSOURI.

THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE RAPIDLY EAST AT 45
MPH. BY 115 AM...IT WILL AFFECT COMMUNITIES FROM PERRYVILLE
MISSOURI...NORTHEAST ACROSS JACKSON AND PERRY COUNTIES OF ILLINOIS.

THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE WIND GUSTS BETWEEN 40 AND 50 MPH...
AS WELL AS FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL.

THESE STORMS STILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO KNOCK DOWN SOME TREES
AND POWER LINES. FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS IS POSSIBLE.

YORK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 7:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHHamilton48 min
Jun 10, 7:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHWayne41 min
Jun 10, 7:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHEdwards, Wabash, White49 min
Jun 10, 7:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHSaline29 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.