Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2014

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Paducah, KY

April 3, 2014Butler County, Carter County, Ripley County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 2014, 7:46 PM CDT for Butler County, Carter County, Ripley County, Missouri. It was in force for 29 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Apr 3, 2014, 7:46 PM CDT (00:46 UTC)
Expired
Apr 3, 2014, 8:15 PM CDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.25 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Butler County, MO, Carter County, MO, Ripley County, MO

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:47 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Apr 3, 7:56 PM CDTFUNNEL CLOUD5 N Fairdealing, MO
Apr 3, 7:56 PM CDTTORNADO9 W Poplar Bluff, MOA DOUBLE WIDE MOBILE HOME HAD ABOUT HALF OF ITS ROOF BLOWN OFF. A COUPLE TREES AND TREE LIMBS WERE BLOWN DOWN. THE TORNADO WAS JUST EAST OF STRINGTOWN.
Apr 3, 8:11 PM CDTTORNADO5 Ne Fairdealing, MO

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 3, 4:58 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KBYH), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 228 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 2014-04-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 993 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 2014-04-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 233 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
993 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-136 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1599 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
233 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
192 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
6.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

240 
WUUS53 KPAH 040046
SVRPAH
MOC023-035-181-040115-
/O.NEW.KPAH.SV.W.0021.140404T0046Z-140404T0115Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
746 PM CDT THU APR 3 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...
  SOUTHEASTERN CARTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...
  NORTHEASTERN RIPLEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 743 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BUDAPEST...
  AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

  HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL.

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.

  IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE TO
           ROOFS...SIDING AND TREES.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  POPLAR BLUFF...MILLTOWN...BRUSH ARBOR AND HENDRICKSON.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 3682 9081 3693 9060 3692 9035 3677 9024
      3666 9066
TIME...MOT...LOC 0046Z 240DEG 41KT 3677 9067

HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...60MPH

$$
1 follow-up statement
053 
WWUS53 KPAH 040106
SVSPAH

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
806 PM CDT THU APR 3 2014

MOC035-181-040117-
/O.CAN.KPAH.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-140404T0115Z/
CARTER MO-RIPLEY MO-
806 PM CDT THU APR 3 2014

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN RIPLEY AND
SOUTHEASTERN CARTER COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI IS CANCELLED...


LAT...LON 3681 9063 3682 9066 3688 9066 3689 9068
      3693 9060 3692 9035 3677 9024 3667 9060
      3668 9062
TIME...MOT...LOC 0107Z 240DEG 41KT 3688 9041

$$

MOC023-040115-
/O.CON.KPAH.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-140404T0115Z/
BUTLER MO-
806 PM CDT THU APR 3 2014

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN
BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI UNTIL 815 PM CDT...

AT 804 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HENDRICKSON...
AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL.

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.

IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE TO
         ROOFS...SIDING AND TREES.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN BUTLER COUNTY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 3681 9063 3682 9066 3688 9066 3689 9068
      3693 9060 3692 9035 3677 9024 3667 9060
      3668 9062
TIME...MOT...LOC 0107Z 240DEG 41KT 3688 9041

TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...60MPH

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 3, 7:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHRipley34 min
Apr 3, 7:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHRipley35 min
Apr 3, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHBollinger, Cape Girardeau30 min
Apr 3, 8:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCape Girardeau, Perry29 min
Apr 3, 8:03 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHCape Girardeau27 min
Apr 3, 8:04 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHRipley26 min
Apr 3, 8:11 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHButler, Stoddard, Wayne34 min
Apr 3, 8:16 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHButler, Ripley14 min
Apr 3, 8:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCape Girardeau51 min
Apr 3, 8:30 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHButler15 min
Apr 3, 8:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHBollinger, Cape Girardeau, Stoddard, Wayne28 min
Apr 3, 8:44 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHBollinger, Butler, Stoddard, Wayne31 min
Apr 3, 9:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCape Girardeau, Scott, Stoddard31 min
Apr 3, 9:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCarter, Ripley43 min
Apr 3, 9:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCape Girardeau, Scott27 min
Apr 3, 9:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHButler, Wayne50 min
Apr 3, 9:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHBollinger, Cape Girardeau, Perry46 min
Apr 3, 10:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHBollinger, Stoddard38 min
Apr 3, 10:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCape Girardeau, Scott33 min
Apr 4, 11:39 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningPAHCape Girardeau, Perry, Scott3 days
Apr 4, 11:39 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningPAHScott4 days
Apr 4, 11:57 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningPAHMississippi13 days

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 2014Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2014

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.