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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 156, NWS Paducah, KY

June 5, 2007Ballard County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2007, 3:16 PM CDT for Ballard County, Kentucky. It was in force for 29 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 5, 2007, 3:16 PM CDT (20:16 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 2007, 3:45 PM CDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ballard County, KY

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:18 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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 238 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 12:00Z on 2007-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 14 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 12:00Z on 2007-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 31 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
14 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1168 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
61 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 5, 2:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 2:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
200 PM CDT TUE JUN 5 2007

.DISCUSSION...
SCT SHRA/ISOLD TSRA DEVELOPING IN PM HEAT MAINLY JUST EAST OF PAH
FA...WHERE SPC RECENTLY PUT OUT SVR WATCH 349 TIL 01Z. ISOLD
ACTIVITY ALSO DULY NOTED ALONG RIBBON OF HIGHER MOISTURE/ENHANCED CU
FIELD ACROSS HEART OF FA. BEST SVR THREAT IS DEEPER INTO COLD
POOL...IE NERN PTNS FA. HAVE MODIFIED ALL WX/POP GRIDS TO COVER THRU
SUNSET...AFTER WHICH DIURNAL FUEL WL BE LOST AND WEAKENING/
DIMINISHING SHOULD OCCUR IN DRYING COLUMN.

WED-THU STILL LOOK DRY...AND MODELS ARE EVEN COMING AROUND TO THAT
NOTION...KEEPING ISENTROPIC LIFT/BEST WAA QPF MENTION TO OUR NORTH
AND WEST NOW. THEREFORE CONFIDENCE IS INCREASING IN PERSISTENCE
STRATEGY DRY FORECAST WED-THU.

NEXT SYSTEM TRANSLATES EAST W/SPC SLGT RISK SVR ACCOMPANYING SAID
TRANSLATION ACROSS PAH FA...MAINLY FRI...W/INTRODUCTORY POP NOW
LOOKING TO HAVE GOOD MODEL CONSENSUS ON COMING IN LATE THU NIGHT.

LATEST GFS/DGEX ACTUALLY DRIVE FRONT THRU BY FRI NIGHT...W/RESULTANT
DRY/SLIGHTLY COOLER POST FRONTAL WX FORECAST FOR SAT. WELL BUY
W/SOME SKEPTICISM...AS MODELS HAVE BEEN BACK AND FORTH ON EXACTLY
WHERE BOUNDARY LAYS OUT...THIS TIME GOING JUST SOUTH OF FA. FROM
THERE...DAYS 6-7 WE FOLLOW GFS/HPC LEAD AND REINTRODUCE A MAINLY
DIURNALLY AIDED POP FOR ENERGY RIDING OUT OF THE PLAINS AND BATTLING
THE RISING MS VALLEY HEIGHTS...THINKING SMALL POP WARRANTED IN THE
MORE SUMMER LIKE AIR MASS.

MOS AND HPC GENERALLY ACCEPTED W/THE USUAL MINOR TWEEKS INTO THE
COLLAB PIC.

.AVIATION...
VIS SAT PICS INDICATE PLENTY OF CLOUDS OVER THE AREA WITH RADAR
SHOWING ECHOES DEVELOPING EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. HAVE VCSH IN TAFS
BUT WILL AMEND FOR A TEMPO GROUP ALL THREE SITES...AS PER CURRENT
RADAR TRENDS AND WW. OTHERWISE DONT EXPECT MUCH AFTER SUNSET WITH
WINDS GOING VARIABLE AND MOST CONVECTIVE CLOUDS DISSIPATING W/LOSS
OF FUEL.

&&

.PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
KY...NONE.
MO...NONE.
IL...NONE.
IN...NONE.
&&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 5, 1:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 2:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHMcCracken36 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 2007Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2007

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.