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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Paducah, KY

April 5, 20095 counties in Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 5, 2009, 5:10 PM CDT for 5 counties in 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: Apr 5, 2009, 5:10 PM CDT (22:10 UTC)
Expired: Apr 5, 2009, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Christian County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 5, 11:44 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 124 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1419 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 140 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 270 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Apr 5, 3:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 5, 3:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
330 PM CDT SUN APR 5 2009

.DISCUSSION...
A MORE DETAILED FORECAST DISCUSSION WILL FOLLOW WITHIN THE
HOUR...BUT FOR NOW THE MAIN STORIES WILL BE THE ONGOING STRONG TO
SEVERE CONVECTTIVE ACTIVITY MOVING THROUGH THE WFO PAH FORECAST
AREA AT THIS TIME AND THE ISSUANCE OF A FREEZE WATCH FOR TUESDAY
AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT.

THE FREEZE WATCH PRODUCT SHOULD BE OUT AROUND 430 PM CDT.

&&

.AVIATION...
/RETRANSMISSION FROM 1250 PM CDT SUN APR 5 2009 DISCUSSION/
COLD FRONT WILL BE CROSSING THE AREA FROM WEST TO EAST BETWEEN
NOW AND 00Z OR SO WITH WINDS SHIFTING TO THE WEST AND VEERING
NORTHWEST BEHIND IT. BROKEN LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING JUST
EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EASTWARD AS
QUICKLY AS 60KTS WITH MVFR CIGS AND PERIODS OF MVFR VSBYS. DRYSLOT
BEHIND THE FRONT WILL ALLOW FOR A PERIOD OF CLEARING BEFORE
WRAPAROUND MOISTURE BRINGS CIGS QUICKLY DOWN INTO THE 1500-2500FT
RANGE...LOWEST DURING THE EARLY MORNING MONDAY. ALONG WITH THAT
WILL BE RAIN AND WET SNOW SHOWERS...COULD BE SOME PERIODS OF MVFR
VSBY AS WELL BUT AM NOT CONFIDENT ENOUGH TO ENTER INTO TAFS AT
THIS POINT.

&&

.PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
KY...FREEZE WATCH FROM MONDAY EVENING THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR
     BALLARD-CALDWELL-CALLOWAY-CARLISLE-CHRISTIAN-CRITTENDEN-
     DAVIESS-FULTON-GRAVES-HENDERSON-HICKMAN-HOPKINS-LIVINGSTON-
     LYON-MARSHALL-MCCRACKEN-MCLEAN-MUHLENBERG-TODD-TRIGG-UNION
     KY-WEBSTER.

MO...FREEZE WATCH FROM MONDAY EVENING THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR
     BOLLINGER-BUTLER-CAPE GIRARDEAU-CARTER-MISSISSIPPI-NEW
     MADRID-PERRY MO-RIPLEY-SCOTT-STODDARD-WAYNE MO.

IL...FREEZE WATCH FROM MONDAY EVENING THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR
     ALEXANDER-EDWARDS-FRANKLIN-GALLATIN-HAMILTON-HARDIN-JACKSON-
     JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-MASSAC-PERRY IL-POPE-PULASKI-SALINE-UNION
     IL-WABASH-WAYNE IL-WHITE-WILLIAMSON.

IN...FREEZE WATCH FROM MONDAY EVENING THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR
     GIBSON-PIKE-POSEY-SPENCER-VANDERBURGH-WARRICK.

&&

SMITH/AD

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 5, 10:04 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	PAH	Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Hickman	4 days
Apr 5, 12:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Fulton, Hickman	37 min
Apr 5, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Crittenden, Livingston, Lyon, Marshall	37 min
Apr 5, 4:28 PM CDT	Freeze Watch	PAH	Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more	12 hr
Apr 5, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian, Muhlenberg, Todd	31 min
Apr 5, 7:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Perry	25 min
Apr 5, 8:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jefferson, Wayne	36 min
Apr 5, 12:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Union	20 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 2009 Every 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.