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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Paducah, KY

May 19, 2005Wayne County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 2005, 1:59 PM CDT for Wayne County, Missouri. It was in force for 46 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
May 19, 2005, 1:59 PM CDT (18:59 UTC)
Expired
May 19, 2005, 2:45 PM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wayne County, MO

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:01 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 19, 11:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 297 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2005-05-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 697 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2005-05-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 137 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
697 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-58 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
964 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
137 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
156 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.9

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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 May 19, 4:20 AM CDT, 9 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 19, 4:20 AM CDT, 9 hours 39 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, May 19, 11:44 AM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1144 AM CDT THU MAY 19 2005

ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087-100-
107>112-114-201000-
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...HERRIN...HARRISBURG...CARMI...
CARBONDALE...CAIRO...OWENSBORO...MURRAY...MAYFIELD...HOPKINSVILLE...
EVANSVILLE...MADISONVILLE AND HENDERSON
1144 AM CDT THU MAY 19 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...SOUTHERN
ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...AND WESTERN KENTUCKY.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM FOR SOUTHEAST
MISSOURI...SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...AND FAR WESTERN MOST PORTIONS OF
SOUTHWEST INDIANA AND WESTERN KENTUCKY.

AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT WILL KEEP THE CHANCE OF
THUNDERSTORMS...INCLUDING THE SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS...IN THE FORECAST FOR THE ENTIRE AREA THROUGH TONIGHT.

LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND ARE THE PRIMARY THREATS TO BE EXPECTED
WITH ANY POTENTIAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

ON FRIDAY MORNING THERE WILL BE A LINGERING CHANCE OF
THUNDERSTORMS...MAINLY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHWEST INDIANA.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTERS HAVE BEEN ACTIVATED IN THE WATCH AREA...AND JUST OUTSIDE OF
THE WATCH AREA...SPOTTERS SHOULD BE ON ALERT FOR THEIR POSSIBLE
ACTIVATION REQUEST LATER TODAY OR TONIGHT.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 19, 3:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHJackson50 min
May 19, 4:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHEdwards, Wabash38 min
May 19, 4:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHJackson47 min
May 19, 6:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHEdwards, Wabash50 min
May 19, 2:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHChristian, Todd60 min
May 19, 3:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHHenderson, Union56 min
May 19, 4:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHHopkins40 min
May 19, 4:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCaldwell50 min
May 19, 4:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHHopkins66 min
May 19, 5:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCaldwell43 min
May 19, 5:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHMcLean40 min
May 19, 5:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHChristian, Hopkins48 min
May 19, 6:15 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHCaldwell, Hopkins3 hr
May 19, 6:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCaldwell43 min
May 19, 3:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHRipley40 min
May 19, 3:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHButler59 min
May 19, 3:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHPerry27 min
May 19, 4:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCarter23 min
May 19, 4:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCape Girardeau37 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.