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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 2, 2006, 7:08 AM CST for Crittenden County, Livingston County, Kentucky; 5 counties in Illinois; Perry County, Missouri. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 2, 2006, 7:08 AM CST (13:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 2, 2006, 11:00 AM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Edwards County, IL, Jackson County, IL, Saline County, IL, Wayne County, IL, White County, IL, Crittenden County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Perry County, MO
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:09 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 5:38 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jan 2, 2:15 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 257 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
- 775 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -112 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 841 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 253 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 239 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.6
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 Jan 2, 5:50 AM CST, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 2, 5:50 AM CST, 1 hour 18 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 550 AM CST MON JAN 2 2006 .UPDATED... UPDATED ZONES TO REFLECT LATEST TRENDS...AND TO INCLUDE THE LATEST TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 4 WHICH IS VALID UNTIL NOON TODAY. STILL VERY UNSTABLE ACROSS THE REGION EARLY THIS MORNING. LINE OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM ST. LOUIS TO JUST WEST OF GREENVILLE MISSOURI. FINE LINE ON RADAR SEEN SOUTH INTO NE ARKANSAS. THIS CONVECTION WAS RIGHT ALONG THE SURFACE COLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY...WHICH IS FORECAST BY THE RUC TO BE THROUGH MOST OF THE FA BY 18Z. AROUND 18Z...IT SHOULD EXTEND FROM SW INDIANA...SOUTH ACROSS THE PENNYRILE REGION OF WRN KY. SOME ENHANCEMENT IN THE CONVECTION IS POSSIBLE THIS MORNING AS BREAKS IN THE CLOUDS ALLOW FOR SOME MORNING SUN...AND WARM TEMPERATURES INTO THE MID 60S TO NEAR 70. && .PREVIOUS DISCUSSION... CURRENT ANALYSIS SHOWS LOW AND FRONT STILL WELL WEST OF THE AREA OVER MO. ISODROSOTHERMS RANGE FROM LOW 60S SOUTH TO THE MID 50S NORTH. INSTABILITY PARAMETERS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR TS THROUGH THE MORNING WITH LIS -7 OVER THE EAST EVEN AT 18Z. WIND PROFILES REMAIN CONDUCIVE FOR SVR AND POSSIBLY TOR. IN ADDITION THE MODELS HAVE CONTINUALLY INDICATED A SLOWER EVOLUTION WITH THE CURRENT SYSTEM. WITH ALL THIS IN MIND AND THE UPPER LOW PROGGED TO MOVE OVERHEAD WILL KEEP A CHC OF TS IN ALL DAY FOR INITIAL ISSUANCE OF ZONES. WILL MONITOR TOR#2 AREA CLOSELY FOR DEVELOPMENT IF NOTHING IS HAPPENING UPSTREAM AT PRESS TIME WILL CONSIDER DROPPING SOUTHERN WATCH BUT MAINTAIN STRONG WORDING. OTHERWISE VERY FEW CHANGES TO GRIDS ALTHOUGH OPTED TO REMOVE PRECIP WED AS PER COORD WITH LMK AND WILL MONITOR SUCCESSIVE MODEL RUNS FOR POSSIBLE REMOVAL OF PRECIP WED NGT. AS FOR TEMPS LEANED TOWARD THE MAV/MET SOLUTION MORE SO THAN THE FWC. MAINLY AS RESULT OF GOOD RUN TO RUN CONTINUITY. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KY...NONE. MO...NONE. IL...NONE. IN...NONE. && KH/CN
Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 2, 5:54 AM CST, 1 hour 14 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 554 AM CST MON JAN 2 2006 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-031200- JEFFERSON-WAYNE IL-EDWARDS-WABASH-PERRY IL-FRANKLIN-HAMILTON- WHITE-JACKSON-WILLIAMSON-SALINE-GALLATIN-UNION IL-JOHNSON-POPE- HARDIN-ALEXANDER-PULASKI-MASSAC-GIBSON-PIKE-POSEY-VANDERBURGH- WARRICK-SPENCER-FULTON-HICKMAN-CARLISLE-BALLARD-MCCRACKEN-GRAVES- LIVINGSTON-MARSHALL-CALLOWAY-CRITTENDEN-LYON-TRIGG-CALDWELL- UNION KY-WEBSTER-HOPKINS-CHRISTIAN-HENDERSON-DAVIESS-MCLEAN- MUHLENBERG-TODD-PERRY MO-BOLLINGER-CAPE GIRARDEAU-WAYNE MO-CARTER- RIPLEY-BUTLER-STODDARD-SCOTT-MISSISSIPPI-NEW MADRID- 554 AM CST MON JAN 2 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER THROUGHOUT THE REGION TODAY. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE FOR TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS. THERE IS A TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR THE ENTIRE AREA THROUGH NOON TODAY. LOW PRESSURE WITH AN ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT WILL TRAVERSE THE QUAD STATE TODAY. MODERATE INSTABILITY AND A RELATIVELY LOW ALTITUDE FREEZING LEVEL WILL COMBINE WITH STRONG WIND SHEAR AS THIS SYSTEM MOVES THROUGH. THIS WILL RESULT IN AN ATMOSPHERE CONDUCIVE FOR SEVERE STORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED TODAY.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jan 2, 2:18 AM CST, 4 hours 50 minutes before
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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.