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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Paducah, KY

June 10, 2009Henderson County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2009, 10:54 PM CDT for Henderson County, Kentucky. 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: Jun 10, 2009, 10:54 PM CDT (03:54 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2009, 11:30 PM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Henderson County, KY

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 204 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: 2108 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1123 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.8

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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 Jun 10, 2:20 PM CDT, 8 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 2:20 PM CDT, 8 hours 34 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 11:05 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Henderson, Union	3 hr
Jun 11, 4:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Henderson	43 min
Jun 11, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Daviess	43 min
Jun 11, 4:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Henderson	25 min
Jun 11, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Henderson, Union, Webster	17 min
Jun 11, 4:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Daviess, Henderson	24 min
Jun 11, 4:57 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Daviess, Henderson, Union	2 hr
Jun 11, 5:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Daviess, Henderson	34 min
Jun 10, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Saline, Williamson	65 min
Jun 10, 10:32 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Gallatin, Hamilton, Saline, White	3 hr
Jun 10, 11:43 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Perry, Wayne	3 hr
Jun 11, 12:33 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Gallatin, Hamilton, Saline, White	3 hr
Jun 11, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Wabash	26 min
Jun 11, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Edwards, Wayne	25 min
Jun 10, 11:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Perry	35 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.