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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2009, 4:09 PM CDT for Wayne County, Missouri. It was in force for 36 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
- May 27, 2009, 4:09 PM CDT (21:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2009, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Wayne County, MO
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:08 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 297 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
- 1516 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 605 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
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 May 27, 1:02 PM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 27, 1:02 PM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 27, 12:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 1245 PM CDT WED MAY 27 2009 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-281000- 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- 1245 PM CDT WED MAY 27 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY...AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THE SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS BEEN EXPANDED TO INCLUDE ALL OF THE QUAD STATE...MAINLY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE PRIMARY THUNDERSTORM SEVERE WEATHER HAZARDS. LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED. RIVERS WILL REMAIN IN FLOOD...PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST RIVER FLOOD WARNINGS AND STATEMENTS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS... SOUTHWEST INDIANA...AND WESTERN KENTUCKY SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND SATURDAY NIGHT. THIS INCLUDES A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE STORMS WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR DAMAGING WINDS OR LARGE HAIL. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST RIVER FLOOD WARNINGS AND STATEMENTS FOR DETAILS ON RIVER FLOODING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION REQUEST MAY OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON OR SATURDAY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | McLean, Muhlenberg | 28 min |
| May 27, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Fulton | 25 min |
| May 27, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Jackson | 32 min |
| May 27, 6:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Wabash | 2 hr |
| May 27, 4:37 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Perry | 3 hr |
| May 27, 5:13 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Bollinger, Wayne | 3 hr |
| May 27, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Cape Girardeau | 31 min |
Nearby
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.