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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 188, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2004, 12:36 PM CDT for Christian County, Todd County, Kentucky. It was in force for 39 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, 12:36 PM CDT (17:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2004, 1:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Christian County, KY, Todd County, KY
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 11:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 1101 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 888 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
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, 10 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 2:31 AM CDT, 10 hours 5 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, 7:54 AM CDT, 4 hours 42 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 754 AM CDT SUN JUN 13 2004 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087-100- 107>112-114-141000- ALEXANDER IL-BALLARD KY-BOLLINGER MO-BUTLER MO-CALDWELL KY- CALLOWAY KY-CAPE GIRARDEAU MO-CARLISLE KY-CARTER MO-CHRISTIAN KY- CRITTENDEN KY-DAVIESS KY-EDWARDS IL-FRANKLIN IL-FULTON KY- GALLATIN IL-GIBSON IN-GRAVES KY-HAMILTON IL-HARDIN IL-HENDERSON KY- HICKMAN KY-HOPKINS KY-JACKSON IL-JEFFERSON IL-JOHNSON IL- LIVINGSTON KY-LYON KY-MARSHALL KY-MASSAC IL-MCCRACKEN KY-MCLEAN KY- MISSISSIPPI MO-MUHLENBERG KY-NEW MADRID MO-PERRY MO-PERRY IL-PIKE IN- POPE IL-POSEY IN-PULASKI IL-RIPLEY MO-SALINE IL-SCOTT MO-SPENCER IN- STODDARD MO-TODD KY-TRIGG KY-UNION KY-UNION IL-VANDERBURGH IN- WABASH IL-WARRICK IN-WAYNE MO-WAYNE IL-WEBSTER KY-WHITE IL- WILLIAMSON IL- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SIKESTON...POPLAR BLUFF...PERRYVILLE... CAPE GIRARDEAU...PADUCAH...OWENSBORO...MURRAY...MAYFIELD... MADISONVILLE...HOPKINSVILLE...HENDERSON...EVANSVILLE...HERRIN... HARRISBURG...CARMI...CARBONDALE AND CAIRO 754 AM CDT SUN JUN 13 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...AND WESTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE ENTIRE QUAD STATE REGION TODAY AND TONIGHT. SOME STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE GENERALLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM FAIRFIELD ILLINOIS TO PERRYVILLE MISSOURI. ALTHOUGH LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE...THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS. LOCALIZED FLOODING COULD ALSO BE A THREAT AS STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS IN A BRIEF PERIOD OF TIME OVER ALREADY SATURATED SOIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ALMOST EVERY DAY AND NIGHT THROUGH OUT THE ENTIRE PERIOD. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF SPOTTERS MAY BE NECESSARY TODAY AND TONIGHT. JAP
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 13, 11:34 AM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 5:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Stoddard | 33 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 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.