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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS Paducah, KY

June 1, 2007Edwards County, Wayne County, Illinois

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2007, 3:10 PM CDT for Edwards County, Wayne County, Illinois. It was in force for 33 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 1, 2007, 3:10 PM CDT (20:10 UTC)
Expired
Jun 1, 2007, 3:43 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Edwards County, IL, Wayne County, IL

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 194 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, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2007-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 532 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, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2007-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 51 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
532 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
717 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
59 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 Jun 1, 2:58 PM CDT, 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 2:58 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 1, 7:50 AM CDT, 7 hours 20 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
750 AM CDT FRI JUN 1 2007

ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087-
100-107>112-114-021000-
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-
750 AM CDT FRI JUN 1 2007

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP LATE THIS MORNING AND THIS
AFTERNOON OVER THE ENTIRE FOUR STATE REGION. SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT
EXPECTED.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL SLOWLY INCREASE FROM NORTHWEST
TO SOUTHEAST THIS WEEKEND. A COLD FRONT IS FORECAST TO MOVE
ACROSS THE REGION LATE SATURDAY NIGHT OR EARLY SUNDAY. WHILE THE
PROBABILITY OF AN ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER EVENT APPEARS LOW...
ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CANNOT BE RULED OUT. THERE WILL BE A
LINGERING CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY AFTERNOON AHEAD OF YET
ANOTHER WEAK COLD FRONT.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.

RJP

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 1, 2:57 PM CDT, 13 minutes before
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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.