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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Paducah, KY

June 16, 2009Caldwell County, Christian County, Hopkins County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2009, 12:45 PM CDT for Caldwell County, Christian County, Hopkins County, Kentucky. It was in force for 30 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 16, 2009, 12:45 PM CDT (17:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 2009, 1:15 PM CDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Caldwell County, KY, Christian County, KY, Hopkins County, KY

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 16, 10:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 143 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2009-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 228 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2009-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 46 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
228 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-115 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1107 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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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 16, 7:37 AM CDT, 5 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 7:37 AM CDT, 5 hours 8 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 16, 5:24 AM CDT, 7 hours 21 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
524 AM CDT TUE JUN 16 2009

ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087-
100-107>112-114-171000-
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-
524 AM CDT TUE JUN 16 2009

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN
ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST
MISSOURI.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE ENTIRE
QUAD STATE REGION TODAY...AS A COUPLE ROUNDS OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE
POSSIBLE. A COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS SOUTHERN
MISSOURI THIS MORNING MAY CARRY A SEVERE RISK IF IT MAINTAINS ITS
STRENGTH BY THE TIME IT ENTERS SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...WHICH WOULD
LIKELY OCCUR BETWEEN 8 AND 9 AM AT PRESENT SPEED.

LATE THIS MORNING AND INTO THE AFTERNOON HOURS...THE DEVELOPMENT
OF ADDITIONAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED AREA-WIDE
AS THE ATMOSPHERE BECOMES VERY UNSTABLE. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY
ORGANIZE INTO BOWING LING SEGMENTS...SO DAMAGING WIND APPEARS TO
BE THE PRIMARY CONCERN. LARGE HAIL AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN ARE ALSO
POSSIBLE...AND AN ISOLATED TORNADO CANNOT BE RULED OUT WHERE STORM
COMPLEXES INTERACT WITH EXISTING OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS PRIMARILY EAST OF THE
MISSISSIPPI RIVER WEDNESDAY...THEN ANOTHER CHANCE FRIDAY AFTERNOON
AND EVENING.

HOT...HUMID AIR IS FORECAST TO SPREAD ACROSS THE REGION THURSDAY
AND FRIDAY. MAXIMUM HEAT INDEX VALUES BOTH AFTERNOONS MAY BE AROUND
100 DEGREES. THIS WILL BE THE FIRST WAVE OF HEAT TO AFFECT THE
REGION THIS SEASON.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED TODAY ACROSS A LARGE PART
OF THE QUAD STATE REGION.

PRESLEY

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 16, 12:00 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 16, 12:32 PM CDT, 13 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 16, 11:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHBallard, McCracken25 min
Jun 16, 11:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHBallard, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, McCracken26 min
Jun 16, 11:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCrittenden, Livingston, McCracken, Marshall26 min
Jun 16, 12:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCalloway, Graves, Lyon, Marshall, Trigg26 min
Jun 16, 12:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCaldwell, Crittenden, Hopkins, Lyon, Union, Webster27 min
Jun 16, 12:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCalloway, Christian, Lyon, Trigg24 min
Jun 16, 12:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHHenderson, Hopkins, McLean, Union, Webster33 min
Jun 16, 1:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHChristian, Todd, Trigg28 min
Jun 16, 1:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHChristian, McLean, Muhlenberg, Todd37 min
Jun 16, 1:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHTodd32 min
Jun 16, 4:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHJohnson, Massac, Union46 min
Jun 16, 10:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHAlexander, Jackson, Union38 min
Jun 16, 10:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHAlexander, Pulaski, Union31 min
Jun 16, 10:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHBollinger, Stoddard, Wayne26 min
Jun 16, 10:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHBollinger, Cape Girardeau, Perry35 min
Jun 16, 11:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHMississippi, New Madrid32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 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.