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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 2, 2014, 8:14 PM CDT for Marshall County, Kentucky. It was in force for 31 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 2, 2014, 8:14 PM CDT (01:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2014, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Marshall County, KY
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:14 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 nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 207 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1685 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 2, 8:09 PM CDT, 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 2, 8:09 PM CDT, 5 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 424 AM CDT WED APR 2 2014 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-031000- 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- 424 AM CDT WED APR 2 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TODAY AND TONIGHT. SOME STORMS MAY REACH SEVERE LEVELS...ESPECIALLY AS WE GET INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS WOULD BE THE MAIN HAZARDS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND THURSDAY NIGHT. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORNADOES WILL ALL BE POSSIBLE. THERE WILL ALSO BE A RISK OF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT INTO EARLY THURSDAY. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS PROBABLE THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 2, 6:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Apr 2, 8:03 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 803 PM CDT WED APR 2 2014 KYZ008-030130- MARSHALL KY- 803 PM CDT WED APR 2 2014 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN MARSHALL COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY UNTIL 830 PM CDT... AT 801 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BENTON...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS THAT MAY BE IMPACTED INCLUDE... BREWERS...HARDIN AND AURORA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Marshall | 36 min |
| Apr 2, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Trigg | 21 min |
| Apr 3, 9:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | PAH | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more | 22 hr |
| Apr 3, 9:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Henderson, Union | 3 hr |
| Apr 3, 9:52 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Daviess | 3 hr |
| Apr 3, 10:40 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Crittenden, Livingston, McLean, Webster | 3 hr |
| Apr 3, 12:31 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Henderson, Union | 3 hr |
| Apr 3, 12:49 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Daviess, Henderson | 3 hr |
| Apr 3, 1:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Daviess, Henderson, Hopkins, McLean, Webster | 119 min |
| Apr 3, 3:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Daviess, Henderson | 3 hr |
| Apr 3, 4:34 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Union | 116 min |
| Apr 3, 5:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Union, Webster | 3 hr |
| Apr 3, 6:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Hopkins, McLean | 110 min |
| Apr 3, 6:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Daviess, Henderson | 12 hr |
| Apr 2, 8:13 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | PAH | Wayne, White | 4 days |
| Apr 3, 8:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Franklin | 3 hr |
| Apr 3, 1:43 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Edwards, Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Perry, Wabash and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 3, 2:47 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | PAH | Gallatin, Wayne, White | 17 days |
| Apr 3, 3:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Wayne | 3 hr |
| Apr 3, 3:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Edwards, Wabash, White | 3 hr |
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.