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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 429, NWS Paducah, KY

June 26, 2006Wayne County, Illinois

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2006, 12:54 PM CDT for Wayne County, Illinois. It was in force for 51 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: Jun 26, 2006, 12:54 PM CDT (17:54 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2006, 1:45 PM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wayne County, IL

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:55 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

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 192 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: 578 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -82 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 691 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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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 Jun 26, 1:30 AM CDT, 11 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 1:30 AM CDT, 11 hours 24 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
Jun 26, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Marshall	42 min
Jun 26, 5:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Hopkins	37 min
Jun 26, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Muhlenberg	63 min
Jun 26, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Calloway	27 min
Jun 26, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Todd	49 min
Jun 26, 6:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Calloway	33 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 2006 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006

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.