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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Paducah, KY

February 18, 2009Christian County, Todd County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 18, 2009, 9:32 AM CST for Christian County, Todd County, Kentucky. It was in force for 43 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: Feb 18, 2009, 9:32 AM CST (15:32 UTC)
Expired: Feb 18, 2009, 10:15 AM CST
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Christian County, KY, Todd County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 105 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 519 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 78 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 599 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 631 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 Feb 18, 6:00 AM CST, 3 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 18, 6:00 AM CST, 3 hours 32 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 18, 4:03 AM CST, 5 hours 29 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 18, 9:32 AM CST, 0 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
932 AM CST WED FEB 18 2009

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0930 AM     HAIL             OAK GROVE               36.67N 87.43W
02/18/2009  M0.75 INCH       CHRISTIAN          KY   TRAINED SPOTTER

            PENNY SIZE HAIL REPORTED WITH STORM ALONG INTERSTATE 24.

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SMITTY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 18, 11:41 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Daviess, Henderson	34 min
Feb 18, 12:04 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Carter, Wayne	41 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 2009 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2009

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.