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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 138, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2008, 1:24 PM CDT for Wayne 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
- Jun 9, 2008, 1:24 PM CDT (18:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2008, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Wayne County, IL
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:28 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 192 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -235 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1073 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 9, 3:28 AM CDT, 9 hours 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 3:28 AM CDT, 9 hours 56 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 9, 5:12 AM CDT, 8 hours 12 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 512 AM CDT MON JUN 9 2008 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-101100- 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- 512 AM CDT MON JUN 9 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT...MAINLY IN AREAS NORTHWEST OF THE OHIO RIVER. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AND MOVE EAST INTO SOUTHEASTERN MISSOURI AND SOUTHERN ILLINOIS LATE TODAY AND EARLY TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY REACH SEVERE LEVELS...WITH DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND HAIL THE PRIMARY RISKS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE TONIGHT OVER WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHWEST INDIANA. HOWEVER...MOST OF THIS ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LEVELS. WIND GUSTS OF FROM 25 TO 30 MPH ARE EXPECTED TODAY. THIS WILL CREATE ROUGH CONDITIONS ON AREA LAKES. BOATERS OF SMALL CRAFT SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION. DUE TO RECENT HEAVY RAINFALL NORTH OF THE REGION...SOME POINTS ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER ARE ABOVE OR FORECAST TO RISE ABOVE FLOOD STAGE. PLEASE REFER TO THE APPROPRIATE RIVER FLOOD PRODUCTS FOR DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REGION FROM FRIDAY ON INTO NEXT WEEKEND. AT THIS TIME...IT LOOKS AS THOUGH MOST OF THIS ACTIVITY WILL REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LEVELS. DUE TO RECENT HEAVY RAINFALL NORTH OF THE REGION...SOME POINTS ALONG THE OHIO AND WABASH RIVERS ARE FORECAST TO RISE ABOVE FLOOD STAGE. PLEASE REFER TO THE APPROPRIATE RIVER FLOOD PRODUCTS FOR DETAILS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED OVER SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND SOUTHERN ILLINOIS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 1:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Jefferson | 32 min |
| Jun 9, 1:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Jackson, Perry | 47 min |
| Jun 9, 1:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Jackson | 29 min |
| Jun 9, 1:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Hamilton, Jefferson, Wayne | 24 min |
| Jun 9, 2:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Wayne | 47 min |
| Jun 9, 2:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Franklin, Perry | 29 min |
| Jun 9, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Franklin, Williamson | 39 min |
| Jun 9, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Franklin, Williamson | 34 min |
| Jun 9, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Hamilton, Saline | 36 min |
| Jun 9, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Hamilton, Saline | 37 min |
| Jun 9, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Butler, Stoddard | 29 min |
| Jun 9, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Butler | 25 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008
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.