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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 7, 2015, 3:39 PM CDT for McLean County, Webster County, Kentucky. It was in force for 17 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 7, 2015, 3:39 PM CDT (20:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 7, 2015, 3:56 PM CDT
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.88 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties McLean County, KY, Webster County, KY
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 1:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 593 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 594 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
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 Apr 7, 3:24 PM CDT, 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 7, 3:24 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 944 AM CDT TUE APR 7 2015 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-081000- 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- 944 AM CDT TUE APR 7 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP EAST SOUTHEAST ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS AND EVENTUALLY THE EVANSVILLE TRI STATE REGION TODAY. A FEW SEVERE STORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE...PRIMARILY OVER SOUTHERN ILLINOIS THROUGH THE EARLY AFTERNOON. TORRENTIAL RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL BE A CONCERN WITH ANY THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO FORECAST LATER TONIGHT OVER MOST OF THE REGION. HEAVY RAIN AND LIGHTNING WILL BE THE PRIMARY CONCERNS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE WEDNESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. A FEW STRONG STORMS COULD PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...HAIL...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THERE IS A RISK FOR A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THURSDAY AFTERNOON INTO THURSDAY NIGHT. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS APPEAR TO BE THE PRIMARY HAZARDS. A BRIEF...SMALL TORNADO OR TWO THAT COULD CAUSE LOCALIZED ENHANCED WIND DAMAGE CANNOT BE RULED OUT...AND WOULD BE MOST LIKELY ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI INTO SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS. THE POTENTIAL FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS RETURNS LATE IN THE WEEKEND AND EARLY NEXT WEEK. STRONG STORMS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CANNOT BE RULED OUT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS OVER SOUTHERN ILLINOIS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR ACTIVATION TODAY. SPOTTERS THROUGHOUT THE REGION SHOULD PREPARED FOR ACTIVATION LATE THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT. DRS
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 3:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Webster | 36 min |
| Apr 7, 3:53 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Daviess, Hopkins, McLean, Webster | 112 min |
| Apr 7, 12:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Wayne | 36 min |
| Apr 7, 12:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Wayne | 46 min |
| Apr 7, 1:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Jackson, Perry | 51 min |
| Apr 7, 1:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Jackson | 39 min |
| Apr 7, 1:52 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Edwards, Franklin, Hamilton, Jackson, Jefferson, Perry and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 7, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Jackson, Williamson | 45 min |
| Apr 7, 11:49 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Perry | 56 min |
| Apr 7, 12:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Perry | 40 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.