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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Paducah, KY

March 9, 2006Posey County, Indiana

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 2006, 1:25 PM CST for Posey County, Indiana. It was in force for 35 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 9, 2006, 1:25 PM CST (19:25 UTC)
Expired: Mar 9, 2006, 2:00 PM CST
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Posey County, IN

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:29 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 9, 12:55 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 233 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 804 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 271 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 287 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KPAH 091925
SVRPAH
INC129-092000-
/O.NEW.KPAH.SV.W.0021.060309T1925Z-060309T2000Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
125 PM CST THU MAR 9 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH KENTUCKY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 200 PM CST.

* AT 120 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  HOWARD...OR ABOUT 16 MILES EAST OF ELDORADO...AND MOVING EAST AT 50
  MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO MOUNT
  VERNON...FARMERSVILLE...HEUSLER AND BLAIRSVILLE.

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

LAT...LON 3795 8808 3779 8805 3792 8791 3790 8772
      3812 8771

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 9, 1:37 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Posey, Vanderburgh	38 min
Mar 9, 1:40 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Gibson, Pike, Posey, Vanderburgh, Warrick	4 hr
Mar 9, 2:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Warrick	26 min
Mar 9, 2:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Spencer	37 min

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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.