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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 287, NWS Paducah, KY

July 23, 2004Hopkins County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 2004, 3:50 PM CDT for Hopkins County, Kentucky. It was in force for 40 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: Jul 23, 2004, 3:50 PM CDT (20:50 UTC)
Expired: Jul 23, 2004, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hopkins County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 350 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1963 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1039 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 6 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 Jul 23, 3:58 AM CDT, 11 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 3:58 AM CDT, 11 hours 52 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 22, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Pope	51 min
Jul 22, 7:36 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Pope	3 hr
Jul 22, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Crittenden, Livingston	42 min
Jul 23, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Stoddard	45 min
Jul 23, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	New Madrid	43 min

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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.