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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 27, 2009, 1:09 AM CST for Carlisle County, Hickman County, Kentucky; Mississippi 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
- Feb 27, 2009, 1:09 AM CST (07:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 27, 2009, 1:45 AM CST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Carlisle County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Mississippi County, MO
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 8:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 231 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
- 170 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -308 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 917 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 290 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 332 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 Feb 26, 11:55 PM CST, 1 hour 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 26, 11:55 PM CST, 1 hour 14 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 2:56 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | PAH | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 11 more | 31 hr |
| Feb 26, 11:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Butler | 25 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 2009Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 2009Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.