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Special Weather Statement, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this special weather statement at Apr 5, 2017, 5:47 PM CDT for Edwards County, Illinois. It was in force for 43 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
- Apr 5, 2017, 5:47 PM CDT (22:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 5, 2017, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
County Edwards County, IL
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 685 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 362 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 572 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
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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 Apr 5, 3:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 5, 3:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Paducah KY 330 PM CDT Wed Apr 5 2017 .SHORT TERM...(Tonight through Friday night) Issued at 223 PM CDT Wed Apr 5 2017 Convective Watch posted just to our east. And it does appear threat will remain just to our east, even though we have picked up on some couplets/rotations in convective elements in southwest IL/far southeast MO vicinity, as well as marginally svr cores that thus far, have produced only small hail. We'll maintain ongoing vigilant wx watch for cells ongoing, but threat is hyper diminishing after 22Z-24Z, so it's a short window of opportunity for svr. With Low tracking into Indiana early this evening, mean southwesterlies will increase with sub Advisory threshold gusts. They'll continue overnight, as eventually, colder air comes in on winds that shift to the west, then northwest, by late tonight- early tmrw morning. Pops linger, albeit devoid of thunder, thru the night and activate again tmrw, particularly east. Diurnal destabilization combined with another spoke of PVA tmrw pm will enhance these pops along/to our eastern border. Colder air spills in tmrw night, but winds hold up and clouds will be persistent with ridge remaining to our west, despite temps dropping into 30s. Best night of radiational cooling then comes Fri night with the ridge moving in, skies clearing, and winds diminishing. We'll continue with areas of frost over all but southern SEMO, and highlighting the hazard on HWO. .LONG TERM...(Saturday through Tuesday) Issued at 330 PM CDT Wed Apr 5 2017 The first half of the extended period will be unseasonably cool initially, but southerly low level flow and ridging aloft will be conducive to a quick warm-up. Sun will be the warmest day of the extended period, with highs in the middle 70s despite some increase in cloudiness. Warm breezy weather will continue Mon, accompanied by a chance of showers and tstms moving in from the west, ahead of a frontal boundary associated with a low pressure system progged to move from the central/northern Plains to the Great Lakes region. There is some spread in the deterministic model solutions for the later periods, so timing of the frontal pcpn is not totally certain at this time. We will forecast Mon night to be the period with highest PoP and QPF for most of the region, followed by showers finally ending in the east Tue evening. It appears that there will be only a modest cooldown behind the front. && .AVIATION... Issued at 223 PM CDT Wed Apr 5 2017 Restricted CIGS/VSBYS in convection will continue til 22-24Z time frame, after which thunder risk diminishes despite lingering shower chance, at least vicinity, thru the evening. Lowering CIGS occur with that linger, and persist overnight, as winds slowly shift from southwest to northwest by late tonight-tmrw morning. Strong gusts to nr 30 kts are possible, and while cloud bases may temporarily improve tmrw morning, restricted CIGS are still anticipated. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IL...None. MO...None. IN...None. KY...None. && LONG TERM...DB
Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 5, 5:37 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
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Local storm report, Apr 5, 3:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
340 PM CDT WED APR 05 2017
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0322 PM HAIL MCLEANSBORO 38.09N 88.53W
04/05/2017 M1.25 INCH HAMILTON IL BROADCAST MEDIA
VIEWER SUBMITTED PICTURE SLIGHTLY LARGER THAN QUARTER
SIZED.
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SPLocal storm report, Apr 5, 3:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 9:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | McCracken | 29 min |
| Apr 5, 9:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Crittenden, Livingston | 31 min |
| Apr 5, 11:58 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Hickman | 9 days |
| Apr 5, 2:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Ballard, McCracken | 48 min |
| Apr 5, 4:15 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | PAH | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 5, 2:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Jackson | 23 min |
| Apr 5, 2:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Jackson, Perry | 41 min |
| Apr 5, 11:56 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | PAH | Alexander, Jackson, Union | 10 days |
| Apr 5, 1:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Alexander, Franklin, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Perry and 3 more | 57 min |
| Apr 5, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Wayne | 25 min |
| Apr 5, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Hamilton | 27 min |
| Apr 5, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Edwards, Wayne, White | 29 min |
| Apr 5, 3:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Edwards, Wayne, White | 37 min |
| Apr 4, 11:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Carter | 65 min |
| Apr 5, 12:47 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Wayne | 43 min |
| Apr 5, 1:08 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Wayne | 37 min |
| Apr 5, 1:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Perry | 35 min |
| Apr 5, 2:02 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Cape Girardeau, Stoddard | 43 min |
| Apr 5, 4:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Pike | 27 min |
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