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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 444, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 9, 2012, 2:58 PM CST for 4 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 32 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
- Dec 9, 2012, 2:58 PM CST (20:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 9, 2012, 3:30 PM CST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.88 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Butler County, MO, Carter County, MO, Ripley County, MO, Wayne County, MO
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 171 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:59 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 9, 2:10 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 235 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
- 344 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 445 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
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 Dec 9, 2:17 PM CST, 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 9, 2:17 PM CST, 41 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 9, 10:35 AM CST, 4 hours 23 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 1035 AM CST SUN DEC 9 2012 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-101100- 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- 1035 AM CST SUN DEC 9 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY...AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THE LATEST STORM PREDICTION CENTER SLIGHT RISK AREA FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS COVERS SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...FAR SOUTHERN ILLINOIS FROM ABOUT ROUTE 13 SOUTH...AND MOST OF WESTERN KENTUCKY. SHOULD SEVERE STORMS DEVELOP...THE CENTER INDICATES DAMAGING WINDS... MARGINALLY SEVERE HAIL AROUND 1 INCH...AND BRIEF...SHORT LIVED TORNADOES ARE ALL POSSIBLE. STORM MOTION SHOULD BE EAST TO NORTHEAST 40 TO 50 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS FORECAST FOR SOUTHEAST MISSOURI... SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS...AND FAR SOUTHWEST KENTUCKY FRIDAY NIGHT. HEAVY RAIN AND LIGHTNING WILL BE THE PRIMARY HAZARDS ASSOCIATED WITH ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT OCCUR. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED TODAY AND EARLY THIS EVENING.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Dec 9, 12:54 PM CST, 2 hours 4 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 1254 PM CST SUN DEC 9 2012 MOZ076-087-091930- CAPE GIRARDEAU MO-PERRY MO- 1254 PM CST SUN DEC 9 2012 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN PERRY AND NORTHWESTERN CAPE GIRARDEAU COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI UNTIL 130 PM CST... AT 1251 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DAISY...OR 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF MARBLE HILL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. HAIL UP TO ONE-HALF INCH IN DIAMETER IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS THAT MAY BE IMPACTED INCLUDE... DAISY...ALTENBURG...OAK RIDGE...POCAHONTAS...OLD APPLETON AND FROHNA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 9, 5:10 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Gallatin, Hamilton, Saline, White | 6 hr |
| Dec 9, 3:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Butler, Carter, Ripley, Wayne | 17 min |
| Dec 9, 3:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Butler, Wayne | 30 min |
Nearby
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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.