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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 202, NWS Paducah, KY

October 7, 2017Muhlenberg County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 7, 2017, 9:10 PM CDT for Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. It was in force for 35 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: Oct 7, 2017, 9:10 PM CDT (02:10 UTC)
Expired: Oct 7, 2017, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Muhlenberg County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 130 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: 132 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -72 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1124 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 202 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 257 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 2.3

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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 Oct 7, 7:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 7, 7:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 7, 4:21 AM CDT, 16 hours 49 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
Oct 8, 1:21 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Christian, Hopkins, Muhlenberg	114 min
Oct 8, 7:42 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	PAH	Christian, Muhlenberg, Todd, Trigg	6 hr
Oct 8, 9:39 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Calloway	2 hr
Oct 8, 10:12 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Muhlenberg	4 hr
Oct 8, 11:40 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Calloway	2 hr
Oct 8, 11:50 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Daviess, McLean	115 min
Oct 8, 2:47 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Daviess	118 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 2017 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2017

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.