Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2015

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Paducah, KY

March 31, 2015Butler County, New Madrid County, Stoddard County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 2015, 4:12 PM CDT for Butler County, New Madrid County, Stoddard County, Missouri. It was in force for 48 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
Mar 31, 2015, 4:12 PM CDT (21:12 UTC)
Expired
Mar 31, 2015, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Butler County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Stoddard County, MO

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:15 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

Little Rock, AR (KBYH), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 210 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 12:00Z on 2015-03-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 836 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 12:00Z on 2015-03-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 179 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
836 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-130 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
924 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
179 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
192 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
1.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 Mar 31, 2:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 31, 2:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
252 PM CDT TUE MAR 31 2015

.SHORT TERM...(THIS EVENING THROUGH FRIDAY)
ISSUED AT 252 PM CDT TUE MAR 31 2015

EARLY AFTERNOON MESO ANALYSIS SHOWED A BOUNDARY ACROSS SE MISSOURI
WITH NEWLY DEVELOPED WEAK CONVECTION ALONG A LINE FROM NEAR VAN
BUREN TO DEXTER. FOLLOWED A HRRR/RAP13 BLEND FOR TRENDS THROUGH
EARLY EVENING...MAINTAINING ISOLATED CONVECTIVE CHANCES MAINLY
ALONG AND SOUTH OF THIS LINE...POSSIBLY INTO EXTREME SW KENTUCKY
UNTIL THE CHANCES SHIFT SOUTH EARLY THIS EVENING. REST OF THE
NIGHT WILL BE DRY WITH HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING BACK ACROSS THE
AREA.

WEDNESDAY WILL ESSENTIALLY BE A DRY DAY...UNTIL LATE WHEN A SMALL
CHANCE OF CONVECTION WILL EXIST ACROSS THE OZARK FOOTHILL REGION.
THIS IS IN ASSOCIATION WITH A WEAK MID LEVEL WAVE APPROACHING
COUPLED WITH RETURN FLOW/INSTABILITY. THE OVERALL MOISTURE COMES
THROUGH IN LESS THAN A SOLID REGION...SO JUST CHANCE POPS FOR NOW
GIVEN THE SUBTLE LOOK TO THE WAVE FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO EARLY
THURSDAY. CHANCES WILL INCREASE SLIGHTLY THROUGH THE DAY THURSDAY
WITH DESTABILIZATION...THOUGH THE SURFACE FRONT WILL STILL BE OFF
TO OUR N/NW 00Z FRI.

CHANCES RAMP UP THURSDAY EVENING/NIGHT AS THE BOUNDARY SETTLES
SOUTH INTO THE AREA AHEAD OF A MID LEVEL TROF OVER THE NCNTRL
CONUS...AND SURFACE REFLECTION COMING ACROSS THE OZARKS...REACHING
THE OHIO VALLEY 18Z FRIDAY. HEAVY RAIN AND SOME STRONG TO SEVERE
STORM ACTIVITY REMAIN CONCERNS LATE THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. A
MODEL BLEND WAS USED OVERALL...WEIGHTED TOWARD THE GFS/EC. TEMPS
WERE A BLEND OF MOS AND BASE MODEL OUTPUT.

.LONG TERM...(FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY)
ISSUED AT 252 PM CDT TUE MAR 31 2015

MODELS SOME SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LINGERING INTO FRIDAY EVENING
ACROSS OUR SOUTHEAST/EASTERN COUNTIES AS A COLD FRONT CONTINUES TO
PUSH OFF TO OUR EAST.  HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD INTO THE MIDDLE
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY THROUGH SATURDAY, MOVING OFF TO THE EAST OF THE
PAH FORECAST AREA SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY.  TEMPERATURES WILL
COOL DOWN TO A LITTLE BELOW SEASONAL READINGS FOR FRIDAY NIGHT AND
SATURDAY.  WITH THE HIGH SHIFTING EAST, WINDS WILL SHIFT BACK TO THE
SOUTH AND TEMPERATURES WILL MODERATE TO NEAR SEASONAL FOR SATURDAY
NIGHT AND SUNDAY.

THE SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL BE PICKING UP SUNDAY AS THE PRESSURE
GRADIENT TIGHTENS AHEAD OF OUR NEXT WEATHER SYSTEM.  BOTH ECMWF AND
GFS SHOW A SURFACE LOW OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO BY 00Z MONDAY, MOVING
OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS/SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA BY 12 TUESDAY.  OUR REGION
WILL REMAIN IN THE FAIRLY UNSTABLE WARM SECTOR FOR THE BEGINNING OF
THE WORK WEEK, AND THIS WILL GIVE US CHANCES OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS WESTERN AND CENTRAL PORTIONS OF OUR REGION
SUNDAY NIGHT, AND ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.
CHANCES WILL BE INCREASING THROUGH MID WEEK WITH THE SLOW APPROACH
OF THE ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT.  TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN NEAR NORMAL
FOR MONDAY, BUT THE INCREASING MOIST SOUTHERLY FLOW WILL HELP PUSH
TEMPERATURES WELL ABOVE NORMAL INTO THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 70S BY
TUESDAY.

&&

.AVIATION...
ISSUED AT 252 PM CDT TUE MAR 31 2015

ANY ISOLATED CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY SHOULD STAY ALONG AND SOUTH OF A
KPOF-KCEY LINE THROUGH EARLY EVENING. OTHERWISE WINDS WILL BECOME
LIGHT TONIGHT AND CONTINUE THAT WAY THROUGH 18Z WEDNESDAY WITH
LITTLE TO NO CLOUD COVER.

&&

.PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
IL...NONE.
MO...NONE.
IN...NONE.
KY...NONE.
&&

SHORT TERM...CN
LONG TERM....RST
Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 31, 4:13 AM CDT, 11 hours 59 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 31, 3:31 PM CDT, 41 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 2015Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2015

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.