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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 117, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 2014, 6:12 AM CDT for Edwards County, Wabash County, Illinois. It was in force for 33 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
- Jul 23, 2014, 6:12 AM CDT (11:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 2014, 6:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Edwards County, IL, Wabash County, IL
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 1652 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -255 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1237 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 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 Jul 23, 2:51 AM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 2:51 AM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 23, 6:01 AM CDT, 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 601 AM CDT WED JUL 23 2014 ILZ076>078-INZ081-082-231315- WAYNE IL-EDWARDS-WABASH-GIBSON-PIKE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FAIRFIELD...ALBION...MOUNT CARMEL... FORT BRANCH...PETERSBURG 601 AM CDT WED JUL 23 2014 AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL GRADUALLY MOVE SOUTH AND EAST INTO EXTREME EASTERN WAYNE...AS WELL AS EDWARDS AND WABASH COUNTIES IN ILLINOIS THROUGH 630 AM...AND POSSIBLY REACH GIBSON AND PIKE COUNTIES IN INDIANA FROM 630 AM TO 700 AM. GUSTY WINDS 25 TO 40 MPH...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL BE THE MAIN HAZARDS WITH THE STORMS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 12:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Fulton | 43 min |
| Jul 23, 8:53 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Hamilton, White | 3 hr |
| Jul 23, 12:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Mississippi, Scott | 39 min |
| Jul 23, 12:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Butler, Stoddard | 37 min |
| Jul 23, 1:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Butler, Carter, Ripley, Wayne | 41 min |
| Jul 23, 2:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Ripley | 50 min |
| Jul 23, 2:35 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Ripley | 3 hr |
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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.