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Special Weather Statement, NWS Paducah, KY

August 3, 2016McCracken County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this special weather statement at Aug 3, 2016, 5:25 PM CDT for McCracken County, Kentucky. It was in force for 50 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 3, 2016, 5:25 PM CDT (22:25 UTC)
Expired: Aug 3, 2016, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY

County McCracken County, KY

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 228 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: 352 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 850 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 12 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Aug 3, 2:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 2:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 3, 3:49 AM CDT, 13 hours 36 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
349 AM CDT WED AUG 3 2016

ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087-
100-107>112-114-040900-
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-
349 AM CDT WED AUG 3 2016

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY AND TONIGHT...INCLUDING
SOME STORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL.

PATCHY FOG EARLY THIS MORNING WILL REDUCE VISIBILITY TO ONE
QUARTER MILE OR LESS IN A FEW SPOTS...ESPECIALLY IN SOUTHWEST
INDIANA...THE WABASH VALLEY OF SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS...AND THE OHIO
RIVER COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST KENTUCKY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

WITH THE EXCEPTION OF MONDAY NIGHT...THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE
OVER ALL OR PART OF THE OUTLOOK AREA THROUGH THE PERIOD. LIGHTNING
AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE THE PRIMARY HAZARDS.

HEAT INDICES ARE FORECAST TO REACH 100 TO 105 DEGREES THURSDAY
AFTERNOON OVER SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND PARTS OF WESTERN KENTUCKY.
THE HOTTEST DAY OF THE WEEK WILL MOST LIKELY BE FRIDAY...WHEN HEAT
INDICES FROM 100 TO 107 ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE ENTIRE REGION.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 3, 11:51 AM CDT, 5 hours 34 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1151 AM CDT WED AUG 3 2016

KYZ007>013-015>017-020>022-031800-
LIVINGSTON-MARSHALL-CALLOWAY-CRITTENDEN-LYON-TRIGG-CALDWELL-
WEBSTER-HOPKINS-CHRISTIAN-MCLEAN-MUHLENBERG-TODD-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SMITHLAND...BENTON...HARRIS GROVE...
KIRKSEY...MURRAY...NEW CONCORD...MARION...EDDYVILLE...CADIZ...
CANTON...LINTON...ROCKCASTLE...PRINCETON...FRYER...DIXON...
MADISONVILLE...HOPKINSVILLE...CALHOUN...GREENVILLE...ALLEGRE...
CLIFTY...ELKTON...GUTHRIE
1151 AM CDT WED AUG 3 2016

AT 1151 AM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE SOUTHEAST
ACROSS WESTERN KENTUCKY. THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL MOVE FROM SALEM
AND MARION TO THE LAND BETWEEN THE LAKES AREA...AFFECTING
COMMUNITIES FROM BENTON TO EDDYVILLE AND PRINCETON.

VERY HEAVY RAINFALL COULD RESULT IN WATER ACROSS SOME ROADS THAT
TYPICALLY EXPERIENCE PROBLEMS. IT WILL NOT TAKE LONG GIVEN HOW
SATURATED GROUND CONDITIONS ALREADY ARE. CONTINUE TO MONITOR NOAA
WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION FROM THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

CN

Local storm report, Aug 3, 1:16 PM CDT, 4 hours 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
116 PM CDT WED AUG 03 2016

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0115 PM     HEAVY RAIN       CADIZ                   36.87N 87.82W
08/03/2016  M1.25 INCH       TRIGG              KY   TRAINED SPOTTER

            20 MINUTE RAINFALL ACCUMULATION

&&

SMITTY

Local storm report, Aug 3, 1:37 PM CDT, 3 hours 48 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
137 PM CDT WED AUG 03 2016

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0136 PM     HEAVY RAIN       PADUCAH                 37.07N 88.64W
08/03/2016  M1.00 INCH       MCCRACKEN          KY   ASOS

            18 MINUTE RAINFALL ACCUMULATION

&&

SMITTY

Local storm report, Aug 3, 2:20 PM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
220 PM CDT WED AUG 03 2016

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0210 PM     TSTM WND GST     5 SW ELKTON             36.76N 87.22W
08/03/2016  M52 MPH          TODD               KY   MESONET

            MEASURED ON KENTUCKY MESONET

&&

SMITTY

Local storm report, Aug 3, 3:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 3, 5:25 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 3, 12:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ballard, Carlisle	36 min
Aug 3, 1:20 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	McCracken	115 min
Aug 3, 1:40 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Graves	2 hr
Aug 3, 1:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian, Todd	46 min
Aug 3, 10:14 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Gallatin, Hardin, Johnson, Pope, Saline, Williamson	3 hr
Aug 3, 10:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Johnson	40 min
Aug 3, 4:10 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Johnson, Union	110 min
Aug 3, 2:31 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Ripley	119 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.