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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Paducah, KY

May 27, 2007Wabash County, Illinois

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2007, 6:24 PM CDT for Wabash 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: May 27, 2007, 6:24 PM CDT (23:24 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2007, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wabash County, IL

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 200 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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -92 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1222 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 May 27, 3:05 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 3:05 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 27, 3:47 PM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
347 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2007

ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087-
100-107>112-114-281000-
JEFFERSON-WAYNE IL-EDWARDS-WABASH-PERRY IL-FRANKLIN-HAMILTON-
WHITE-JACKSON-WILLIAMSON-SALINE-GALLATIN-UNION IL-JOHNSON-POPE-
HARDIN-ALEXANDER-PULASKI-MASSAC-GIBSON-PIKE-POSEY-VANDERBURGH-
WARRICK-SPENCER-FULTON-HICKMAN-CARLISLE-BALLARD-MCCRACKEN-GRAVES-
LIVINGSTON-MARSHALL-CALLOWAY-CRITTENDEN-LYON-TRIGG-CALDWELL-
UNION KY-WEBSTER-HOPKINS-CHRISTIAN-HENDERSON-DAVIESS-MCLEAN-
MUHLENBERG-TODD-PERRY MO-BOLLINGER-CAPE GIRARDEAU-WAYNE MO-CARTER-
RIPLEY-BUTLER-STODDARD-SCOTT-MISSISSIPPI-NEW MADRID-
347 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2007

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN
ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST
MISSOURI.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...SOUTHERN
ILLINOIS...AND SOUTHWEST INDIANA WILL LIKELY GENERATE WIND GUSTS
UP TO 35 MPH THROUGH SUNSET. A VERY ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE...WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR
LOCALIZED DAMAGING WINDS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

SMALL CHANCES OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST OVER ALL BUT WEST
KENTUCKY MONDAY AFTERNOON...AND OVER WESTERN PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST
MISSOURI TUESDAY AFTERNOON. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED
EITHER DAY.

BETTER CHANCES OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST THROUGHOUT THE AREA
WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. WHILE THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY BE
STRONGER AND MORE NUMEROUS...THE POTENTIAL FOR AN ORGANIZED SEVERE
WEATHER OUTBREAK APPEARS LOW AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

DRS

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 27, 3:38 PM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
338 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2007

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

0220 PM     TSTM WND DMG     3 S BLODGETT            36.96N 89.53W
05/27/2007                   SCOTT              MO   COUNTY OFFICIAL

            AT HWY H AND COUNTY ROAD 524..SEVERAL TREES WERE DOWN AND
            ACROSS ROADS. TREES RANGED IN DIAMETER FROM 6 TO 18
            INCHES. 6 TO 8 HOUSES HAD MINOR WIND DAMAGE TO THEIR
            ROOFS...MAINLY SHINGLES BLOWN OFF...AND ALSO SIDING AND
            FENCE DAMAGE.

&&

CW

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.