1 funnel cloud, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jul 26, 1:15 AM CST, 9 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 215 AM CDT THU JUL 26 2001 LATEST IR PICS SHOW ENHANCED CLOUDS OVER NW KY...WITHIN AXIS OF 850MB THETA-E 352 K RIDGE. THIS IS JUST AHEAD OF SURFACE COLD FRONT...WHICH IS GRADUALLY SINKING SOUTH AND TAPPING WARM SOUPY AIR OVER PAH FA AS STRONG VORT IS WORKING ITS WAY ACROSS SCNTL IL. NOTE CONVECTION EXTENDS ALONG/AHEAD OF FRONT WESTWARD ACROSS MO...AND SO ANTICIPATE CONT SCT-NUMEROUS TSMS DEVELOPING ACROSS PAH FA THIS AM AS FRONT CONTS TO MOVE IN. PRIMARY THREAT WL REMAIN LOCALLY +RA WITH SOUNDINGS STILL SHOWING PWS IN EXCESS OF 2". WHICH MODEL TO BUY IN REGARDS TO FRONTAL FCST IS PRIMARY CHALLENGE...AND WE CONTINUE TO BELIEVE THAT AVN IS TOO AGGRESSIVE IN ITS SWARD PUSH OF FRONT GIVEN THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS TRENDS TOWARD THE SLOWER ETA. WL CONT THAT THINKING WITH THIS PACKAGE...WHICH LEADS TO THE FRONT STALLING OUT ALONG/JUST SOUTH OF FA FRI...RETURNING NWARD AS WARM FRONT FRI NIGHT-SAT. THIS WL RE-INTRODUCE CHC PCPN AND LIKEWISE RESULT IN NOT QUITE THE COOL-OFF THAT THE AVN BASED GUIDANCE HAS SUGGESTED. .PAH...NONE. DH
ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087-100- 107>112-114-261910- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 1108 AM CDT THU JUL 26 2001 THIS OUTLOOK IS VALID UNTIL 6 AM CDT THURSDAY FOR SOUTHWEST INDIANA...SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...AND WESTERN KENTUCKY. AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS...LOCATED OVER FAR SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND THE PURCHASE AREA OF KENTUCKY LATE THIS MORNING...WILL CONTINUE TO WEAKEN AS IT MOVES SOUTHEAST OUT OF THE AREA BY EARLY AFTERNOON. FURTHER NORTH...A COLD FRONT WAS JUST PUSHING INTO SOUTHERN ILLINOIS AND SOUTHWEST INDIANA. THE FRONT IS FORECAST TO SLOWLY SAG SOUTHWARD THROUGH THE ENTIRE QUAD-STATE AREA...BEFORE STALLING OUT JUST SOUTH OF THE AREA THIS EVENING. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO BE POSSIBLE THROUGHOUT THE QUAD-STATE AREA ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT THROUGH THIS EVENING. IF THE FRONT DOES NOT MAKE IT THROUGH ALL OF WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THERE THROUGHOUT THE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. ALL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL MOVE SLOWLY SOUTHEAST...AND MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS. ISOLATED OCCURRENCES OF FLASH FLOODING HAVE ALREADY OCCURRED IN SOME LOCATIONS THIS MORNING...AND ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING...COULD QUICKLY RESULT IN A RECURRENCE OF FLASH FLOODING PROBLEMS. WEAK WINDS ALOFT AND A LACK OF SIGNIFICANT INSTABILITY DUE TO CONSIDERABLE CLOUD COVER OVER THE REGION...WILL PRECLUDE THE THREAT OF SEVERE WINDS OR HAIL THROUGH TONIGHT. STORM MOVEMENT WILL GENERALLY BE TO THE SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 10 MPH. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED FOR FLOODING SITUATIONS. DRS
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
A funnel cloud was photographed just southwest of Fort Branch over a 30-minute period. The funnel was not associated with strong or severe thunderstorms.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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