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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Paducah, KY

April 10, 20137 counties in Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 10, 2013, 9:25 PM CDT for 7 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 50 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 10, 2013, 9:25 PM CDT (02:25 UTC)
Expired: Apr 10, 2013, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Bollinger County, MO, Cape Girardeau County, MO, Mississippi County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Scott County, MO, Stoddard County, MO, Wayne County, MO

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:28 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 10, 8:28 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 244 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: 2188 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 918 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 362 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 472 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 5.8
Supercell composite: 29.7

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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 10, 9:06 PM CDT, 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 10, 9:06 PM CDT, 19 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 10, 7:07 PM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
707 PM CDT WED APR 10 2013

ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087-
100-107>112-114-111000-
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-
707 PM CDT WED APR 10 2013

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN
ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST
MISSOURI.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TONIGHT ACROSS
THE ENTIRE OUTLOOK AREA.

ALTHOUGH ONE ROUND OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS MOVED THROUGH PARTS
OF SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...ANOTHER ROUND OF
STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO MOVE BACK INTO
SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS BY 8 PM CDT...REACHING
NEAR INTERSTATE 57 CLOSE TO 10 PM CDT. BY MIDNIGHT...THE LEADING
EDGE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD APPROACH THE WABASH RIVER IN
SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS AND THE NORTH PART OF THE LAND BETWEEN THE
LAKES IN WEST KENTUCKY. BETWEEN 3 AM AND 4 AM CDT...THESE STORMS
SHOULD MOVE NEAR AN OWENSBORO...HOPKINSVILLE KENTUCKY LINE.

HEAVY RAIN...DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL WILL BE THE PRIMARY HAZARDS...WITH
ISOLATED TORNADOES POSSIBLE DURING THE EVENING HOURS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

A FEW STRONG TO LOCALLY SEVERE STORMS MAY STILL BE POSSIBLE RIGHT
AROUND DAYBREAK THURSDAY MORNING EAST OF A ELKTON...GREENVILLE
KENTUCKY LINE. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND LOCALLY DAMAGING WINDS WILL
BE THE PRIMARY HAZARDS IN A SMALL PART OF THE SOUTHEAST PENNYRILE
REGION EARLY IN THE MORNING.

OFF AND ON CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED FROM SUNDAY
NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY. AT THIS TIME...THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD
HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL STILL BE NECESSARY THIS
EVENING AND INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS THURSDAY FOR SOUTHEAST
MISSOURI AND SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS...THEN ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE
OUTLOOK AREA TOWARD SUNRISE THURSDAY MORNING.

SMITH

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 10, 7:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
749 PM CDT WED APR 10 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0505 PM     FUNNEL CLOUD     2 ESE DIX               38.43N 88.91W
04/10/2013                   JEFFERSON          IL   TRAINED SPOTTER

            DELAYED REPORT. ROTATING WALL CLOUD WITH FUNNEL CLOUD
            OBSERVED CROSSING THE DIX TEXICO ROAD.

&&

RJP

Local storm report, Apr 10, 8:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
822 PM CDT WED APR 10 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0520 PM     TSTM WND DMG     DONIPHAN                36.62N 90.82W
04/10/2013                   RIPLEY             MO   EMERGENCY MNGR

            REPORT OF POWER OUTAGES IN DONIPHAN.

&&

RJP

Local storm report, Apr 10, 8:46 PM CDT, 39 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
846 PM CDT WED APR 10 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0835 PM     TSTM WND DMG     DONIPHAN                36.62N 90.82W
04/10/2013                   RIPLEY             MO   TRAINED SPOTTER

            SEVERAL TREE BRANCHES DOWN EAST OF DONIPHAN ALONG HWY
            160.

&&

RJP

Local storm report, Apr 10, 8:54 PM CDT, 31 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
854 PM CDT WED APR 10 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0820 PM     TSTM WND DMG     DONIPHAN                36.62N 90.82W
04/10/2013                   RIPLEY             MO   EMERGENCY MNGR

            REPORT OF POWER OUTAGES IN DONIPHAN.

&&

RJP

Local storm report, Apr 10, 8:56 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
856 PM CDT WED APR 10 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0853 PM     TSTM WND GST     POPLAR BLUFF            36.76N 90.41W
04/10/2013  E60 MPH          BUTLER             MO   EMERGENCY MNGR

&&

RJP

Local storm report, Apr 10, 9:09 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

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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 10, 7:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Butler, Ripley	39 min
Apr 10, 8:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Butler, Carter, Ripley	34 min
Apr 10, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Butler, Stoddard	44 min
Apr 10, 9:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Butler, Stoddard	30 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 2013 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2013

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.