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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Paducah, KY

March 30, 2005Gibson County, Posey County, Indiana

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 2005, 9:49 PM CST for Gibson County, Posey County, Indiana. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 30, 2005, 9:49 PM CST (03:49 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2005, 10:15 PM CST
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Gibson County, IN, Posey County, IN

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 3 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 30, 7:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 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: 926 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1436 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 311 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 338 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 7.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KPAH 310349
SVRPAH
INC051-129-310415-
/O.NEW.KPAH.SV.W.0021.050331T0349Z-050331T0415Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
949 PM CST WED MAR 30 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GIBSON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA.
  POSEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA.

* UNTIL 1015 PM CST

* AT 944 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR POSEYVILLE...OR
  ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTH OF MOUNT CARMEL...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 65
  MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE CYNTHIANA...OWENSVILLE...
  HAUBSTADT...FORT BRANCH AND PRINCETON.

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. SEEK SHELTER NOW
INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS

LAT...LON 3824 8788 3811 8787 3819 8752 3842 8754

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KPAH 310404
SVSPAH

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1004 PM CST WED MAR 30 2005

INC051-129-310415-
/O.CON.KPAH.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-050331T0415Z/
GIBSON IN-POSEY IN-
1004 PM CST WED MAR 30 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1015 PM CST FOR
POSEY AND GIBSON COUNTIES...

AT 957 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
OWENSVILLE...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MOUNT CARMEL...MOVING 
NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. OTHER STORMS WITH THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE 
DIME SIZE WILL AFFECT POSEY COUNTY.

LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE CYNTHIANA...HAUBSTADT...FORT
BRANCH...PRINCETON AND PATOKA.

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. SEEK SHELTER NOW
INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3815 8786 3795 8786 3795 8772 3815 8770
      3820 8752 3843 8756 3846 8776 3827 8773

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 30, 10:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Pike	23 min

Nearby

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.