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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 131, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 2015, 5:56 PM CDT for Bollinger County, Wayne County, Missouri. It was in force for 49 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 20, 2015, 5:56 PM CDT (22:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2015, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Bollinger County, MO, Wayne County, MO
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:55 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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 267 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
- 117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -259 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1760 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 20, 3:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 20, 3:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 20, 3:09 PM CDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 309 PM CDT MON JUL 20 2015 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-212015- 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- 309 PM CDT MON JUL 20 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND SOUTHERN ILLINOIS THIS AFTERNOON....THEN BECOME MORE NUMEROUS THROUGHOUT THE REGION TONIGHT...AS A COLD FRONT ENTERS THE AREA. A FEW OF THE STORMS THIS AFTERNOON COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS POSSIBLE. DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER CONCERN TONIGHT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND LIGHTNING WILL ALSO BE CONCERNS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. HEAT INDEX VALUES ARE EXPECTED TO WARM TO AROUND 105 DEGREES THIS AFTERNOON OVER FAR SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ALONG THE WABASH...OHIO AND MISSISSIPPI RIVERS. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST RIVER FLOOD WARNINGS AND STATEMENTS FOR DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY CHANCES OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST FOR ALL OR A PORTION OF THE AREA FROM TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. THE BEST CHANCES THROUGH THE PERIOD WILL PERSIST OVER SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...AND THE GREATEST CHANCE WILL BE ON THURSDAY. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND LIGHTNING WILL BE THE PRIMARY CONCERNS THROUGH THE PERIOD. FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI...OHIO...AND WABASH RIVERS. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST RIVER FLOOD WARNINGS AND STATEMENTS FOR DETAILS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. JP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 11:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Perry | 32 min |
| Jul 20, 5:17 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Scott | 58 min |
| Jul 20, 6:14 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Perry, Wayne | 3 hr |
| Jul 20, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Wayne | 44 min |
| Jul 20, 6:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Stoddard, Wayne | 36 min |
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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.