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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 183, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2008, 4:53 PM CDT for Carter County, Missouri. It was in force for 37 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 20, 2008, 4:53 PM CDT (21:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2008, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Carter County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 252 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
- 469 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1185 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 20, 3:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 3:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 300 PM CDT FRI JUN 20 2008 .DISCUSSION... MAIN CONCERN THIS FORECAST PACKAGE IS CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH SUNDAY...THEN AGAIN STARTING TUESDAY NIGHT. MID-LEVEL WAVE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WIDESPREAD SHOWER AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY TODAY CONTINUES TO PUSH EAST OF THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON. IN ITS WAKE...THE ATMOSPHERE HAS DESTABILIZED ENOUGH TO POP ADDITIONAL ISOLATED CONVECTION OVER SOUTHERN MISSOURI. TONIGHT...THE BEST CHANCE OF LINGERING ACTIVITY WILL BE FOCUSED OVER THE PENNYRILE REGION OF WESTERN KENTUCKY...TAPERING TO SLIGHT CHANCES FARTHER WEST AND NORTH. AS WAS DEMONSTRATED LAST NIGHT AND TODAY...THE ABILITY TO PINPOINT THE INDIVIDUAL PEAKS IN PRECIPITATION CHANCES WELL IN ADVANCE WILL BE DIFFICULT OVER THE NEXT WEEK. IN THE NEAR TERM...THE UPPER-LEVEL PATTERN WILL AMPLIFY OVER THE WEEKEND AS THE NEXT IN A SERIES OF SHORTWAVE TROUGHS DIVES SOUTHWARD INTO THE OHIO VALLEY ON SUNDAY. SO AFTER A SLIGHT CHANCE OF MAINLY DIURNAL CONVECTION SATURDAY...WE BUMPED UP PRECIPITATION CHANCES TO AS HIGH AS 40 PERCENT ON SUNDAY FROM MOUNT VERNON ILLINOIS TO OWENSBORO KENTUCKY...WITH LOWER CHANCES FARTHER SOUTH AND WEST. WHILE NOT ENTIRELY CERTAIN...LATEST SREF AND OPERATIONAL RUNS OF THE NAM AND GFS ARE SIGNALING BETTER ODDS OF STAYING DRY MONDAY AND MOST OF TUESDAY. AFTER THAT...ALL BETS ARE OFF AS A FAIRLY ACTIVE BUT WEAK NORTHWEST FLOW PATTERN PERSISTS. AS A RESULT...WILL MAINTAIN SMALL RAIN CHANCES THROUGH THE COURSE OF THE MIDDLE TO END OF NEXT WEEK. AS FAR AS TEMPERATURES ARE CONCERNED...NIGHTTIME LOWS REFLECT A WARMER FWC/MET BLEND OVER THE NEXT TWO NIGHTS...WITH DAYTIME HIGHS AN AVERAGE OF AVAILABLE GUIDANCE. IN THE EXTENDED...WE GENERALLY FAVORED THE GUIDANCE BASED ON THE GFS ENSEMBLE MEAN. && .AVIATION... GENERALLY VFR SKY AND VSBY CONDITIONS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. BRIEF MVFR CIGS AND VSBYS POSSIBLE...AND WILL LIMIT CONVECTION TO VICINITY AS THE BULK OF THE SHOWERS AND ISOLD STORMS PUSHES EAST OF THE TAF SITES. OVERNIGHT...INTO THE FIRST HALF OF SATURDAY EXPECT MAINLY DRY CONDITIONS. COULD BE SOME FOG OR SCT LOW CIG RESTRICTIONS AFTER MIDNIGHT AS FORECAST SOUNDINGS SATURATE WITH SHARP BLYR INVERSION DEVELOPING AFTER 06Z BELOW 1K FT. WILL HINT AT BOTH BUT REFRAIN FROM AOB IFR RESTRICTIONS UNTIL A CLEAR SIGNAL SHOWS UP IN TRENDS OVERNIGHT. WINDS WILL NOT BE OPERATIONALLY SIGNIFICANT. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KY...NONE. MO...NONE. IL...NONE. IN...NONE. && PUBLIC...RJP AVIATION...CTN
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 20, 3:43 AM CDT, 13 hours 10 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 343 AM CDT FRI JUN 20 2008 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-211000- 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- 343 AM CDT FRI JUN 20 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 CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE PRIMARY THREAT IS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN. SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ON AREA RIVERS. REFER TO THE LATST WARNINGS AND STATEMENTS FOR MORE DETAILED INFORMATION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...AND AGAIN WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ON AREA RIVERS. REFER TO THE LATST WARNINGS AND STATEMENTS FOR MORE DETAILED INFORMATION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 20, 4:12 PM CDT, 41 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 4:45 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Butler | 2 hr |
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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.