Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2009
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2009, 4:16 PM CDT for Cape Girardeau County, Perry County, Missouri. It was in force for 29 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 13, 2009, 4:16 PM CDT (21:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2009, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Cape Girardeau County, MO, Perry County, MO
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:18 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
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 302 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
- 2381 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 529 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
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.