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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 115, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2015, 12:00 AM CDT for 4 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 30 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 2, 2015, 12:00 AM CDT (05:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2015, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Ballard County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Graves County, KY, McCracken County, KY
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:00 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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1041 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 1, 11:58 PM CDT, 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 1, 11:58 PM CDT, 2 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 332 AM CDT WED JUL 1 2015 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-021000- 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- 332 AM CDT WED JUL 1 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT STORM CHANCES WILL INCREASE WITH TIME...RESULTING IN HEAVY RAINS BY TONIGHT AS A FLASH FLOOD WATCH BEGINS FOR THE SOUTHWEST HALF OF THE HEARTLAND. REFER TO THE WATCH FOR MORE DETAILS. ISOLATED STORMS DURING THIS TIME FRAME MAY ALSO POSE A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER...WITH DAMAGING WINDS THE MOST PROBABLE HAZARD. FLOODING CONTINUES ON AREA RIVERS. REFER TO THE WARNINGS AND STATEMENTS FOR DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY A FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES THROUGH THURSDAY FOR THE SOUTHWEST HALF OF THE QUAD STATE REGION. RAIN TOTALS OF ONE TO THREE INCHES WILL BE COMMONPLACE ACROSS THE ENTIRE HEARTLAND...WITH UPWARDS OF 3 TO 5 INCHES LOCALLY POSSIBLE IN THE WATCH AREA. REFER TO THE WATCH FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. FLOODING CONTINUES ON AREA RIVERS. REFER TO THE WARNINGS AND STATEMENTS FOR DETAILS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS SHOULD MAINTAIN A BASIC WEATHER WATCH IN CASE THEIR SEVERE WEATHER ACTIVATION IS REQUESTED. OTHERWISE...RAINFALL AND FLOODING REPORTS ARE ENCOURAGED AND APPRECIATED.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 9:12 PM CDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 10:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Fulton | 23 min |
| Jul 2, 2:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | McCracken | 42 min |
| Jul 2, 2:41 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Ballard, McCracken | 3 hr |
| Jul 2, 6:57 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Calloway | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 9:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Wayne | 48 min |
| Jul 2, 12:31 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Mississippi | 29 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.