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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 285, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 9, 2009, 6:50 AM CDT for Christian County, Trigg County, Kentucky. It was in force for 25 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
- Oct 9, 2009, 6:50 AM CDT (11:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 9, 2009, 7:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Christian County, KY, Trigg County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 1054 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 757 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 292 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 351 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.7
- Supercell composite
- 7.0
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 Oct 9, 3:07 AM CDT, 3 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 9, 3:07 AM CDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Oct 8, 8:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Union | 54 min |
| Oct 8, 9:39 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Henderson | 37 min |
| Oct 8, 10:16 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Daviess, Henderson | 65 min |
| Oct 8, 11:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Crittenden, Daviess, Henderson, Livingston, McLean, Union and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 8, 11:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle, Hickman, Livingston, McCracken | 6 hr |
| Oct 9, 1:11 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Caldwell, Crittenden, Daviess, Graves, Hickman, Hopkins and 4 more | 3 hr |
| Oct 9, 1:42 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Calloway, Christian, Hopkins, McLean, Muhlenberg, Todd and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 9, 4:24 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Caldwell, Crittenden, Daviess, Fulton, Graves, Hickman and 5 more | 4 hr |
| Oct 9, 4:33 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Henderson, Union | 4 hr |
| Oct 9, 5:30 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Crittenden, Daviess, Henderson, Livingston, McLean, Union and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Oct 9, 5:46 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle, Graves, Hickman, Livingston, McCracken and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Oct 8, 8:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Johnson, Massac, Pope | 78 min |
| Oct 8, 8:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Edwards, Franklin, Hamilton, Jackson, Jefferson, Perry and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 8, 9:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Jackson, Union | 3 hr |
| Oct 8, 10:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Gallatin, Saline, Wabash, White | 6 hr |
| Oct 8, 10:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Alexander, Gallatin, Hardin, Jackson, Johnson, Pope and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 9, 12:49 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Union | 3 hr |
| Oct 9, 3:13 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Jackson, Jefferson and 6 more | 4 hr |
| Oct 8, 11:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Ripley | 15 min |
| Oct 9, 8:30 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Mississippi, New Madrid and 5 more | 4 hr |
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.