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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 187, NWS Paducah, KY

June 13, 2004Stoddard County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2004, 5:12 AM CDT for Stoddard County, Missouri. It was in force for 33 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 13, 2004, 5:12 AM CDT (10:12 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 2004, 5:45 AM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Stoddard County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 310 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 2004-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 398 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2004-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -10 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
398 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-133 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1026 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-17 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 Jun 13, 2:31 AM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 2:31 AM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
231 AM CDT SUN JUN 13 2004

CURRENT FORECAST PACKAGE IN PRETTY GOOD SHAPE. MAIN CHALLENGE
CONTINUES TO BE ON AND OFF CHANCES OF PRECIP THROUGHOUT THE SEVEN
DAY FORECAST PERIOD.

MCS PLOWING SE ACROSS MISSOURI TOWARD OUR CWA. SHALLOW STABLE LAYER
AT THE SURFACE GIVING SFC BASED LIFTED INDICES IN THE +1 TO +4
CATEGORY...BUT SHOWALTER INDICES STILL YIELDING 0 TO -2.
THEREFORE...FEEL THAT CONVECTION WILL WEAKEN A BIT BEFORE ENTERING
OUR CWA BUT CONTINUE ACROSS THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS...SEE A BIT OF
A BREAK IN THE ACTION IN THE EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS...AND THEN
DEPENDING ON HOW MUCH MIXING AND HEATING WE GET...EXPECT ANOTHER
ROUND TO GET GOING LATER THIS AFTERNOON. MODELS IN DECENT AGREEMENT
BRINGING AN H5 SHORT WAVE NE OUT OF THE SOUTHERN PLAINS WITH ASSOC
VORT MAX TODAY WHICH WILL PROVIDE THE NECESSARY FORCING. DURING THE
NIGHT TONIGHT THE WAVE AND VORT MAX MOVE OFF TO THE EAST. PREFER THE
ETA/MESOETA SOLUTION WHICH SHOWS VIRTUALLY NO QPF FOR TONIGHT...BUT
JUST IN CASE...WILL KEEP A LOW CHC POP. WITH A COUPLE OF RIPPLES OF
ENERGY PASSING OVER THE AREA ON MONDAY WILL KEEP CHC POPS.  MONDAY
NIGHT IT APPEARS THAT WE WILL BE BETWEEN SYSTEMS (RIPPLES OF ENERGY
AND A QUASI-STATIONARY FRONT JUST NORTH OF OUR CWA AND AN UPPER LOW
OVER THE DEEP SOUTH). ON TUESDAY SOME OF THE ENERGY...MOISTURE...ETC
FROM THE UPPER LOW OVER THE DEEP SOUTH BEGINS TO DRIFT NORTH...SO
KEPT IN LOW CHC POPS. WILL MAKE NO CHANGES BEYOND TUESDAY (5TH
PERIOD).

MADE A FEW TEMPERATURE TWEAKS HERE AND THERE...OTHERWISE THEY LOOKED
GOOD.

&&

.PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
KY...NONE.
MO...NONE.
IL...NONE.
IN...NONE.

&&

JAP
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 13, 4:30 AM CDT, 42 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 12:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHChristian, Todd39 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004

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.