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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 215, NWS Paducah, KY
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.
- 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
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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</html>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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Hamilton | 48 min |
| Jun 10, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Wayne | 41 min |
| Jun 10, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Edwards, Wabash, White | 49 min |
| Jun 10, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Saline | 29 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.