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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Paducah, KY

February 22, 2023Butler County, Wayne County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 22, 2023, 1:28 PM CST for Butler County, Wayne County, Missouri. It was in force for 32 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: Feb 22, 2023, 1:28 PM CST (19:28 UTC)
Expired: Feb 22, 2023, 2:00 PM CST
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Butler County, MO, Wayne County, MO

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Feb 22, 12:20 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 299 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: 109 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -138 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 838 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 296 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 214 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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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 Feb 22, 12:34 PM CST, 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 22, 12:34 PM CST, 54 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 22, 2:20 AM CST, 11 hours 8 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Feb 22, 12:30 PM CST, 58 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 22, 1:19 PM CST, 9 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
Feb 22, 2:01 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Graves	44 min
Feb 22, 3:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ballard, Carlisle	40 min
Feb 22, 3:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Fulton, Hickman	47 min
Feb 22, 3:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Graves, McCracken	46 min
Feb 22, 3:47 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Graves	28 min
Feb 22, 3:52 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Caldwell, Calloway, Crittenden, Livingston, Lyon, Marshall and 1 more	53 min
Feb 22, 2:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jackson, Perry	43 min
Feb 22, 2:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Alexander, Union	35 min
Feb 22, 3:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Franklin, Jackson, Jefferson, Perry, Williamson	37 min
Feb 22, 3:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Hamilton, Wayne	49 min
Feb 22, 12:30 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Carter	45 min
Feb 22, 1:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Butler, Carter, Ripley, Wayne	51 min
Feb 22, 1:41 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Carter	19 min
Feb 22, 2:21 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Cape Girardeau, New Madrid, Perry, Scott	24 min
Feb 22, 2:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Scott, Stoddard	20 min
Feb 22, 2:45 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	PAH	New Madrid	30 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.