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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 117, NWS Paducah, KY

May 4, 2007Hopkins County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 4, 2007, 8:16 PM CDT for Hopkins County, Kentucky. It was in force for 17 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

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The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 4, 2007, 8:16 PM CDT (01:16 UTC)
Expired
May 4, 2007, 8:33 PM CDT
In force
17 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hopkins County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 156 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2007-05-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 228 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2007-05-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 30 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
228 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
938 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.