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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 174, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 7, 2006, 7:07 PM CDT for Alexander County, Pulaski County, Union County, Illinois. It was in force for 38 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
- Apr 7, 2006, 7:07 PM CDT (00:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 7, 2006, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Alexander County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Union County, IL
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 10:20 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 269 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
- 310 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -177 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1354 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 272 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
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 Apr 7, 3:20 PM CDT, 3 hours 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 7, 3:20 PM CDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 320 PM CDT FRI APR 7 2006 .DISCUSSION... ONGOING SEVERE WEATHER PRECLUDES LENGTHY DISCUSSION. TORNADO WATCH #162 CURRENTLY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT. FOR MORE DETAILED INFORMATION REGARDING LATEST SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOKS AND WATCHES...REFER TO LATEST PRODUCTS FROM STORM PREDICTION CENTER. ROUND ONE WITH SEVERE WEATHER OVER WEST KENTUCKY HAS MOVED EAST OF THE AREA. NUMEROUS LARGE HAIL REPORTS WERE RECEIVED. ROUND TWO IS ONGOING OVER SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...ALSO PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. AWAITING FURTHER DEVELOPMENT. ELONGATED AREA OF SURFACE LOW PRESSURE WILL MOVE SOUTH AND EAST OF THE REGION BY 06 UTC. THIS SHOULD PUSH THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT EAST OF THE FORECAST AREA. THE UPPER LEVEL LOW/TROUGH WILL PAST EAST OF THE FORECAST AREA BY 12 UTC. UNTIL THEN A CHANCE OF SHOWERS WILL LINGER UNTIL AROUND DAYBREAK SATURDAY. FROM PREVIOUS DISCUSSION...FOLLOWING THE DEPARTURE OF THE UPPER LOW EARLY SATURDAY...SIGNIFICANT COLD/DRY AIR ADVECTION/MIXING WILL TAKE PLACE ACROSS THE WFO PAH FORECAST AREA. ANY MIXING SHOULD DIMINISH BY EARLY EVENING...PLACING THE WFO PAH FORECAST AREA IN IDEAL CONDITIONS FOR FROST DEVELOPMENT. ALTHOUGH WE ARE IN THE EARLY PART OF THE OUTDOOR GROWING SEASON...I WILL LEAVE ANY CONSIDERATION OR MENTION OF FROST ADVISORY POTENTIAL TO THE (DAY AND) FOLLOWING EVENING FORECAST CREWS. A CAUTIONARY STATEMENT WAS PLACED IN THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK AS A HEADS UP FOR AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS. DRY WEATHER SHOULD PERSIST INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. AT THIS TIME...KEPT CURRENT MENTION OF THUNDERSTORM CHANCES THE SAME AS IN PREVIOUS FORECAST PACKAGES. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KY...TORNADO WATCH 162 UNTIL 01 UTC ALL COUNTIES. MO...TORNADO WATCH 162 UNTIL 01 UTC ALL COUNTIES. IL...TORNADO WATCH 162 UNTIL 01 UTC ALL COUNTIES. IN...TORNADO WATCH 162 UNTIL 01 UTC ALL COUNTIES. && ML
Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 7, 7:21 AM CDT, 11 hours 46 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 721 AM CDT FRI APR 7 2006 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-081230- 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- 721 AM CDT FRI APR 7 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXIST THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY THIS EVENING FOR LOCATIONS SOUTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM DEXTER AND CAPE GIRARDEAU MISSOURI...EASTWARD TO BENTON AND CARMI ILLINOIS...THEN ONWARD TO PRINCETON AND SANTA CLAUS INDIANA. THE GREATEST CONCERN IN THIS RISK AREA WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. THE POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED TORNADO DEVELOPMENT WILL BE MOST LIKELY DURING THE EARLY AFTERNOON...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE LOWER DELTA REGION OF EXTREME SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...EASTWARD INTO THE PURCHASE AND PENNYRILE AREAS OF WEST KENTUCKY. THE TORNADO POTENTIAL SHOULD DIMINISH MARKEDLY BY EARLY THIS EVENING. A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXIST ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE OUTLOOK AREA MAINLY DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. THE MAIN HAZARDS IN THIS AREA WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY DEVELOP DURING THE LATE MORNING HOURS...WITH STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOST LIKELY TO BEGIN BETWEEN NOON AND 2 PM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY START OUT IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS...THEN SPREAD EAST THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY AREAS OF FROST WILL BE LIKELY SATURDAY NIGHT. AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS WORKING WITH SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS OR TREES SHOULD MAKE PLANS BY SATURDAY TO LESSEN ANY DAMAGE DUE TO THE FROST. A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO RETURN LATE TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY. AT THIS TIME...THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE REQUESTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SMITH
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 7, 6:39 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
639 PM CDT FRI APR 07 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0637 PM HAIL DEXTER 36.74N 88.30W
04/07/2006 E0.75 INCH CALLOWAY KY TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
MIKENLocal storm report, Apr 7, 6:41 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
641 PM CDT FRI APR 07 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0640 PM HAIL 4 W ROCKPORT 37.88N 87.12W
04/07/2006 M0.75 INCH SPENCER IN TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
SMITTYLocal storm report, Apr 7, 6:47 PM CDT, 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
647 PM CDT FRI APR 07 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0645 PM HAIL ROCKPORT 37.88N 87.05W
04/07/2006 E1.00 INCH SPENCER IN TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
MIKENLocal storm report, Apr 7, 6:48 PM CDT, 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
648 PM CDT FRI APR 07 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0629 PM HAIL 1 S HENDERSON 37.83N 87.58W
04/07/2006 E0.88 INCH HENDERSON KY TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
MIKENLocal storm report, Apr 7, 6:50 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
650 PM CDT FRI APR 07 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0625 PM HAIL BREWERS 36.77N 88.44W
04/07/2006 E1.00 INCH MARSHALL KY EMERGENCY MNGR
PENNY TO QUARTER SIZED HAIL WAS ALSO REPORTED IN THE
AURORA AREA IN SOUTHEAST MARSHALL COUNTY AROUND 625 PM.
&&
MIKENLocal storm report, Apr 7, 7:05 PM CDT, 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
705 PM CDT FRI APR 07 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0653 PM HAIL SACRAMENTO 37.42N 87.27W
04/07/2006 E1.00 INCH MCLEAN KY EMERGENCY MNGR
NUMEROUS REPORTS OF 1.00 INCH DIAMETER HAIL ACROSS THE
SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF MCLEAN COUNTY AROUND 653 PM.
0658 PM HAIL LIVERMORE 37.49N 87.13W
04/07/2006 E1.00 INCH MCLEAN KY EMERGENCY MNGR
&&
MIKENThe office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian | 60 min |
| Apr 7, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Crittenden, Livingston | 55 min |
| Apr 7, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Fulton, Graves, Hickman | 65 min |
| Apr 7, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carlisle, Hickman | 46 min |
| Apr 8, 3:35 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | PAH | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more | 29 hr |
| Apr 7, 9:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | New Madrid | 51 min |
| Apr 7, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Mississippi | 40 min |
| Apr 8, 1:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Stoddard | 47 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.