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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS Paducah, KY

June 15, 2016Johnson County, Pulaski County, Union County, Illinois

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2016, 12:03 PM CDT for Johnson County, Pulaski County, Union County, Illinois. It was in force for 27 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: Jun 15, 2016, 12:03 PM CDT (17:03 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2016, 12:30 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Johnson County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Union County, IL

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:07 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 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 262 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 307 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 664 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jun 15, 10:15 AM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 10:15 AM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 15, 3:07 AM CDT, 8 hours 56 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
307 AM CDT WED JUN 15 2016

ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087-
100-107>112-114-161000-
JEFFERSON-WAYNE IL-EDWARDS-WABASH-PERRY IL-FRANKLIN-HAMILTON-
WHITE-JACKSON-WILLIAMSON-SALINE-GALLATIN-UNION-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-
307 AM CDT WED JUN 15 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN
ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST
MISSOURI.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS FORECAST TODAY. DAMAGING
WIND GUSTS WILL BE THE PRIMARY HAZARD SHOULD SEVERE STORMS OCCUR.
ANY STORM MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.

HEAT INDICES TODAY WILL REACH TRIPLE DIGITS DURING THE AFTERNOON
HOURS FOR MOST LOCALES TODAY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

THE HEAT INDEX THURSDAY AFTERNOON WILL AGAIN REACH TRIPLE DIGITS
FOR MOST LOCALES, AND SOME MAY SEE HEAT INDICES APPROACH 105,
PARTICULARLY FOR THE OZARKS IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE WITH A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS TODAY, ESPECIALLY FROM LATE MORNING AND THROUGH THE
AFTERNOON HOURS.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 15, 11:32 AM CDT, 31 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1132 AM CDT WED JUN 15 2016

ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ014-018-019-MOZ076-086-
087-110-111-151745-
JEFFERSON-WAYNE IL-EDWARDS-WABASH-PERRY IL-FRANKLIN-HAMILTON-
WHITE-JACKSON-WILLIAMSON-SALINE-GALLATIN-UNION-JOHNSON-POPE-
HARDIN-ALEXANDER-PULASKI-MASSAC-GIBSON-PIKE-POSEY-VANDERBURGH-
WARRICK-SPENCER-UNION KY-HENDERSON-DAVIESS-PERRY MO-BOLLINGER-
CAPE GIRARDEAU-STODDARD-SCOTT-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MOUNT VERNON...FAIRFIELD...ALBION...
MOUNT CARMEL...PINCKNEYVILLE...WEST FRANKFORT...MCLEANSBORO...
CARMI...CARBONDALE...MURPHYSBORO...HERRIN...HARRISBURG...
SHAWNEETOWN...JONESBORO...VIENNA...GOLCONDA...ELIZABETHTOWN...
CAIRO...MOUND CITY...METROPOLIS...FORT BRANCH...PETERSBURG...
POSEYVILLE...EVANSVILLE...BOONVILLE...ROCKPORT...MORGANFIELD...
HENDERSON...MOSELEYVILLE...OWENSBORO...PERRYVILLE...SILVER LAKE...
MARBLE HILL...CAPE GIRARDEAU...JACKSON...BLOOMFIELD...SIKESTON
1132 AM CDT WED JUN 15 2016

AT 1130 AM...SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR
CARMI ILLINOIS TO CARBONDALE AND CAPE GIRARDEAU IN SOUTHEAST
MISSOURI. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AROUND 20 TO 25 MPH. ACTIVITY
WILL SPREAD INTO SOUTHWEST INDIANA. THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE WIND
GUSTS 35 TO 45 MPH AND VERY SMALL HAIL. AS WE HEAD INTO THE
AFTERNOON HOURS...THE STORMS MAY INTENSIFY AND BECOME SEVERE. THE
MAIN HAZARDS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 1:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Carlisle	41 min
Jun 15, 1:06 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Henderson	114 min
Jun 15, 1:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Daviess, Henderson	37 min
Jun 15, 1:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Graves, McCracken	46 min
Jun 15, 1:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Calloway, Marshall	46 min
Jun 15, 1:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Carlisle, Hickman	38 min
Jun 15, 2:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Trigg	36 min
Jun 15, 2:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Calloway	35 min
Jun 15, 2:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Daviess, McLean, Muhlenberg	18 min
Jun 15, 2:28 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Calloway, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Marshall, Trigg	2 hr
Jun 15, 2:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Fulton, Hickman	28 min
Jun 15, 2:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian	28 min
Jun 15, 2:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Muhlenberg	26 min
Jun 15, 2:36 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	PAH	Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 14 more	28 hr
Jun 15, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian, Todd	45 min
Jun 15, 12:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson	42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 2016 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2016

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.