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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Paducah, KY

March 13, 2006Jefferson County, Wayne County, Illinois

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 13, 2006, 5:24 AM CST for Jefferson County, Wayne County, Illinois. It was in force for 39 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 13, 2006, 5:24 AM CST (11:24 UTC)
Expired: Mar 13, 2006, 6:03 AM CST
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Jefferson County, IL, Wayne County, IL

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:26 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
Mar 13, 1:06 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 199 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: 730 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 565 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 286 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 322 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.5
Supercell composite: 5.6

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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 Mar 13, 3:49 AM CST, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 13, 3:49 AM CST, 1 hour 35 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 13, 2:29 AM CST, 2 hours 55 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
229 AM CST MON MAR 13 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0222 AM     HAIL             PIEDMONT                37.15N 90.70W
03/13/2006  M1.50 INCH       WAYNE              MO   TRAINED SPOTTER

            HIAL THE SIZE OF HALF DOLLARS REPORTED IN COMMUNITY.
            SMALLER HAIL ALSO WITH THIS STORM.

&&

SMITTY

Local storm report, Mar 13, 2:30 AM CST, 2 hours 54 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
230 AM CST MON MAR 13 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0220 AM     HAIL             PIEDMONT                37.15N 90.70W
03/13/2006  M1.25 INCH       WAYNE              MO   TRAINED SPOTTER

            QUARTER TO HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN COMMUNITY.

&&

SMITTY

Local storm report, Mar 13, 2:35 AM CST, 2 hours 49 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
235 AM CST MON MAR 13 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0220 AM     HAIL             4 E PIEDMONT            37.15N 90.63W
03/13/2006  M3.00 INCH       WAYNE              MO   TRAINED SPOTTER

            ONE MILE NORTH OF HIGHWAY 4 NEAR HIGHWAY DD.

&&

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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 13, 2:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Todd	30 min
Mar 13, 6:03 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Jefferson, Wayne	3 hr
Mar 13, 6:05 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jackson, Williamson	40 min
Mar 13, 1:16 AM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Carter	53 min
Mar 13, 2:00 AM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Wayne	60 min
Mar 13, 2:48 AM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Bollinger	42 min
Mar 13, 3:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Cape Girardeau, Perry	18 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.