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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Paducah, KY

March 9, 2006Mississippi County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 2006, 1:27 AM CST for Mississippi County, Missouri. It was in force for 33 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: Mar 9, 2006, 1:27 AM CST (07:27 UTC)
Expired: Mar 9, 2006, 2:00 AM CST
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Mississippi County, MO

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:31 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 nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 230 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: 141 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -144 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1311 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 162 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 239 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 Mar 8, 9:38 PM CST, 3 hours 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 8, 9:38 PM CST, 3 hours 49 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 9, 9:16 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Fulton, Graves, Hickman	44 min
Mar 9, 9:46 AM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Fulton, Graves, Hickman	29 min
Mar 9, 12:36 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Ballard, McCracken	4 hr
Mar 9, 1:26 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Graves	49 min
Mar 9, 1:50 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Graves, Hickman	25 min
Mar 9, 1:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Henderson	24 min
Mar 9, 2:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Calloway	39 min
Mar 9, 3:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian	36 min
Mar 9, 4:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Muhlenberg, Todd	40 min
Mar 9, 11:21 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson, Johnson and 5 more	6 hr
Mar 9, 12:31 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Johnson, Massac, Pulaski	29 min
Mar 9, 12:49 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Pope	26 min
Mar 9, 1:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Gallatin, Saline	30 min
Mar 9, 1:11 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Edwards, Wabash, Wayne	4 hr
Mar 9, 1:08 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	New Madrid, Stoddard	52 min
Mar 9, 10:08 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Butler, Ripley	4 hr
Mar 9, 10:16 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Wayne	4 hr
Mar 9, 11:32 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	New Madrid, Scott, Stoddard	43 min
Mar 9, 4:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Butler, Ripley	46 min
Mar 9, 5:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Stoddard	38 min
Mar 9, 5:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Cape Girardeau, New Madrid, Scott	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.