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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 2009, 2:55 PM CDT for Livingston County, Marshall County, Kentucky. It was in force for 35 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
- Mar 28, 2009, 2:55 PM CDT (19:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2009, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Livingston County, KY, Marshall County, KY
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:57 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 2:23 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 574 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 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 Mar 28, 1:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 28, 1:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 28, 9:50 AM CDT, 5 hours 5 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 950 AM CDT SAT MAR 28 2009 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-291000- 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- 950 AM CDT SAT MAR 28 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A DEEP LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL TRACK FROM NORTHERN ARKANSAS INTO SOUTHEAST MISSOURI TODAY. ONGOING SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE NORTH ACROSS THE REGION THIS MORNING...WITH A DIMINISHING TREND EXPECTED FROM SOUTH TO NORTH. FROM MIDDAY...INTO THE AFTERNOON HOURS...THE ATMOSPHERE IS FORECAST TO DESTABILIZE OVER WESTERN KENTUCKY...AND POSSIBLY THE SOUTHERN TIP OF ILLINOIS INTO SOUTHWEST INDIANA...EAST OF THE LOW TRACK. THE LATEST MORNING MODEL DATA CONTINUES TO SUGGEST THE REDEVELOPMENT OF STORMS...SOME OF WHICH COULD BE SEVERE. DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL WILL BE THE PRIMARY HAZARDS. HOWEVER...THERE IS ALSO A CONCERN FOR TORNADOES...ESPECIALLY IF WE TAP ENOUGH SUNSHINE AND DAYTIME HEATING...AND FURTHER DESTABILIZE. THE AREA OF HIGHEST PROBABILITY SEEMS TO BE FOCUSED ON WESTERN KENTUCKY. THE CHANCE SHOULD BE OVER BEFORE DARK ACROSS THE PENNYRILE REGION OF WEST KENTUCKY AND PERHAPS SOUTHWEST INDIANA. STORM MOTION WILL BE NORTH TO NORTHEAST UP TO 60 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TODAY ACROSS MOST OF WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA...AND ACROSS SOUTHEASTERN ILLINOIS. NOLES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Crittenden | 41 min |
| Mar 28, 3:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Crittenden | 28 min |
| Mar 28, 3:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Crittenden, Union, Webster | 32 min |
| Mar 28, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Union | 22 min |
| Mar 28, 4:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Christian, Hopkins, Lyon, Trigg | 33 min |
| Mar 28, 4:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Union, Webster | 29 min |
| Mar 28, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian, Trigg | 42 min |
| Mar 28, 4:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Henderson | 23 min |
| Mar 28, 4:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Christian, Trigg | 53 min |
| Mar 28, 4:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Christian, Hopkins, Webster | 48 min |
| Mar 28, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Henderson, Union | 27 min |
| Mar 28, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian, Todd | 43 min |
| Mar 28, 5:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Hopkins, McLean, Muhlenberg, Webster | 40 min |
| Mar 28, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian, Hopkins, Muhlenberg, Todd | 48 min |
| Mar 28, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Henderson | 30 min |
| Mar 28, 5:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Daviess, McLean | 39 min |
| Mar 28, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Daviess, Henderson | 51 min |
| Mar 28, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Todd | 15 min |
| Mar 28, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Muhlenberg | 17 min |
| Mar 28, 6:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Daviess | 28 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.