Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 316, NWS Paducah, KY

November 1, 2004Stoddard County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 1, 2004, 12:49 PM CST for Stoddard County, Missouri. It was in force for 56 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: Nov 1, 2004, 12:49 PM CST (18:49 UTC)
Expired: Nov 1, 2004, 1:45 PM CST
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Stoddard County, MO

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:52 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 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 225 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: 362 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 631 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 252 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 264 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 2.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 Nov 1, 4:43 AM CST, 8 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 1, 4:43 AM CST, 8 hours 6 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 1, 10:35 AM CST, 2 hours 14 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Nov 1, 12:35 PM CST, 14 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1235 PM CST MON NOV 1 2004

ILZ088-092-093-MOZ086-087-100-109>112-114-011930-
ALEXANDER-BOLLINGER-BUTLER-CAPE GIRARDEAU-MISSISSIPPI-NEW MADRID-
PULASKI-SCOTT-STODDARD-UNION IL-WAYNE MO-
1235 PM CST MON NOV 1 2004

...STRONG GUSTY WINDS POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...

A LINE OF SHOWERS WITH STRONG WINDS WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTHEAST
MISSOURI THROUGH 130 PM.  THE STRONGEST INDIVIDUAL STORMS ARE
LOCATED NEAR US HIGHWAY 60.  A WIND GUST OF UP TO 47 MPH WAS
RECORDED IN POPLAR BLUFF.  WIND GUSTS OF THIS HIGH ARE EXPECTED
WITH THIS BAND OF SHOWERS AS IT MOVES EAST AT 20 MPH.  ALSO...EXPECT
LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WITH RAPIDLY REDUCING VISIBILITIES.

FRIEDLEIN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 1, 2:06 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Perry	39 min
Nov 1, 2:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Pulaski	50 min
Nov 1, 3:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jefferson	46 min
Nov 1, 1:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Cape Girardeau	52 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 2004 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.