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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Paducah, KY

March 10, 2010Butler County, Ripley County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 10, 2010, 9:00 PM CST for Butler County, Ripley County, Missouri. It was in force for 45 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 10, 2010, 9:00 PM CST (03:00 UTC)
Expired
Mar 10, 2010, 9:45 PM CST
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Butler County, MO, Ripley County, MO

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:02 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 watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 10, 7:48 PM CSTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 215 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, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 2010-03-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1389 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, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 2010-03-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 99 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1389 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1112 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
99 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
193 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.4
Supercell composite
6.7

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 10, 9:38 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHButler, Ripley, Wayne67 min
Mar 10, 10:38 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHBollinger, Wayne52 min
Mar 10, 11:09 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHBollinger, Cape Girardeau, Perry51 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 2010Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2010

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.