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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 29, 2008, 1:33 PM CST for Butler County, Stoddard County, Missouri. It was in force for 27 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
- Jan 29, 2008, 1:33 PM CST (19:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 29, 2008, 2:00 PM CST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Butler County, MO, Stoddard County, MO
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:34 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 29, 11:32 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -218 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 506 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 329 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 339 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 Jan 29, 10:33 AM CST, 3 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 29, 10:33 AM CST, 3 hours before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 29, 10:45 AM CST, 2 hours 48 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 1045 AM CST TUE JAN 29 2008 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-301045- 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- 1045 AM CST TUE JAN 29 2008 ...MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... 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 MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM MID AFTERNOON INTO EARLY THIS EVENING. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY FROM THE CURRENT TIME UNTIL MID AFTERNOON. AROUND 200 PM...THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO FORM A LINE JUST AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT. THIS LINE OF STORMS IS THEN EXPECTED TO RACE ACROSS THE REGION AT CLOSE TO 70 MPH. THE FRONT AND STORMS WILL LEAVE THE REGION BETWEEN 600 PM AND 700 PM THIS EVENING. THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS DUE TO POWERFUL WINDS ALOFT...HOWEVER AN ISOLATED TORNADO IS POSSIBLE. STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS WILL PERSIST OUTSIDE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS FOR MOST OF TODAY AND TONIGHT. WINDS WILL BE OUT OF THE SOUTH UNTIL SHIFTING TO THE NORTHWEST LATE THIS AFTERNOON OR EARLY THIS EVENING BEHIND THE COLD FRONT. WINDS WILL AVERAGE 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS OF 45 TO 50 MPH POSSIBLE AT TIMES. A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT. REFER TO THE WIND ADVISORY FOR MORE DETAILS. ONCE THE FRONT MOVES THROUGH...SHARPLY COLDER AIR WILL QUICKLY DROP TEMPERATURES INTO THE UPPER 20S AND LOWER 30S BY 900 PM. WIND CHILLS ARE EXPECTED TO BE IN THE TEENS BY LATER THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF LIGHT WINTRY ACCUMULATIONS OF SNOW OR ICE THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT INTO EARLY FRIDAY MORNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. SPODEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 28, 11:42 PM CST | Wind Advisory | PAH | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 13 more | 16 hr |
| Jan 29, 3:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Jackson, Perry | 49 min |
| Jan 29, 3:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Franklin, Jefferson, Perry | 25 min |
| Jan 29, 3:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Alexander, Pulaski, Union | 48 min |
| Jan 29, 4:04 PM CST | High Wind Warning | PAH | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 13 more | 8 hr |
| Jan 29, 4:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Wayne, White | 38 min |
| Jan 29, 4:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Alexander, Pulaski, Union | 32 min |
| Jan 29, 4:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Jackson, Johnson, Saline and 3 more | 27 min |
| Jan 29, 4:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Alexander, Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Pope, Pulaski and 1 more | 47 min |
| Jan 29, 4:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Edwards, Wayne | 27 min |
| Jan 29, 4:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Gallatin, Hamilton, Saline, White, Williamson | 31 min |
| Jan 29, 4:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Edwards, Wabash | 23 min |
| Jan 29, 4:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Edwards, Wabash | 23 min |
| Jan 29, 5:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Edwards, Wabash, White | 38 min |
| Jan 29, 5:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Gallatin, White | 46 min |
| Jan 29, 5:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Hardin, Pope | 46 min |
| Jan 29, 4:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, McCracken | 41 min |
| Jan 29, 5:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Calloway, Lyon, Marshall, Trigg | 42 min |
| Jan 29, 5:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Daviess, Henderson | 50 min |
| Jan 29, 5:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian, Hopkins, McLean, Muhlenberg, Webster | 55 min |
| Jan 29, 5:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian, Todd, Trigg | 49 min |
| Jan 29, 3:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Perry | 24 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 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.