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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Paducah, KY

March 30, 2022Butler County, Ripley County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 2022, 2:29 PM CDT for Butler County, Ripley County, Missouri. It was in force for 46 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: Mar 30, 2022, 2:29 PM CDT (19:29 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2022, 3:15 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Butler County, MO, Ripley County, MO

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 215 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: 42 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -140 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 799 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 294 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 398 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 Mar 30, 6:35 AM CDT, 7 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 30, 6:35 AM CDT, 7 hours 54 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 30, 11:37 AM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1137 AM CDT WED MAR 30 2022

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

1128 AM     NON-TSTM WND DMG 5 W VALIER              38.02N 89.14W
03/30/2022                   FRANKLIN           IL   PUBLIC

            PUBLIC REPORT OF STRONG WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS
            OF 40 MPH RESULTING IN A POWER OUTAGE AND
            BLOWN TRANSFORMER IN VALIER, IL, JUST WEST
            OF BENTON, IL.

&&

Local storm report, Mar 30, 11:43 AM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1143 AM CDT WED MAR 30 2022

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

1115 AM     NON-TSTM WND DMG 1 WNW JACKSON           37.39N 89.67W
03/30/2022                   CAPE GIRARDEAU     MO   PUBLIC

            WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH HAS CAUSED A FEW
            SHINGLES TO BE BLOWN OFF ROOF.

&&

DW

Local storm report, Mar 30, 12:02 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1202 PM CDT WED MAR 30 2022

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

1119 AM     NON-TSTM WND GST 1 SW MURPHYSBORO        37.76N 89.35W
03/30/2022  E43 MPH          JACKSON            IL   PUBLIC

            TREE DOWN ON A HOUSE. MINIMAL DAMAGE TO
            STRUCTURE. POWER LINE WRAPPED ON TREE.

&&

DW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 30, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Fulton, Hickman	31 min
Mar 30, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Hickman	47 min
Mar 30, 4:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Carlisle, Hickman	23 min
Mar 30, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Calloway, Graves, Livingston, McCracken, Marshall	42 min
Mar 30, 4:49 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Livingston and 1 more	116 min
Mar 30, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, McCracken	47 min
Mar 30, 5:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Livingston, Lyon, Marshall	23 min
Mar 30, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Crittenden, Livingston, Lyon	34 min
Mar 30, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Calloway, Graves, Livingston, McCracken, Marshall	45 min
Mar 30, 5:40 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Calloway, Livingston, Marshall	2 hr
Mar 30, 6:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Crittenden, Union, Webster	37 min
Mar 30, 6:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian, Trigg	48 min
Mar 30, 6:14 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Caldwell, Crittenden, Lyon, Trigg	2 hr
Mar 30, 6:29 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Christian, Daviess, Henderson, Hopkins, McLean, Muhlenberg and 3 more	3 hr
Mar 30, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Christian, Daviess, Hopkins, McLean, Muhlenberg, Webster	35 min
Mar 30, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Daviess, Henderson, Union, Webster	66 min
Mar 30, 4:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Alexander	27 min
Mar 30, 4:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jackson	40 min
Mar 30, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jefferson, Wayne	43 min
Mar 30, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Franklin, Hamilton, Johnson, Pope, Saline, Williamson	50 min
Mar 30, 5:20 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Franklin, Johnson, Pope, Saline, Union, Williamson	115 min
Mar 30, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Wayne	52 min
Mar 30, 5:36 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Hamilton, Pope, Saline	114 min
Mar 30, 6:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Wayne	14 min
Mar 30, 6:12 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Edwards, Gallatin, Hardin, Wabash, Wayne, White	94 min
Mar 30, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Edwards, Wabash, White	47 min
Mar 30, 6:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	White	13 min
Mar 30, 3:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	New Madrid, Stoddard	66 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.