1 thunderstorm wind, 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 2, 1:00 PM CST, 5 hours 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 200 PM CDT TUE JUL 2 2002 ALL NEW MODEL RUNS CONTINUE SAME BASIC FORECAST EVOLUTION IN SLOWLY ROTATING SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE CIRCULATION EVER SO GRADUALLY TO THE EAST...EVEN AS BROAD UPPER ANTICYCLONIC PATTERN BUILDS/RIDGES OVER THE CNTL U.S. THE NET RESULT FOR THE PAH FA IS A CONTINUATION OF HEAT/HUMIDITY...WITH A NR DAILY SLGT CHC-LOW CHC AND MAINLY DIURNAL POP. THERE WILL BE A SUBTLE SHIFT FROM THE BEST CHC POP LOCALES...BASED ON THE RETURN MOISTURE FETCH AND ITS MIGRATION WITH THE HIGH PRESSURE CIRCULATION...WHICH WL LIKEWISE IMPACT TEMPS. BUT VERY GENERALLY WHAT CAN BE EXPECTED IS THE CURRENT BETTER POP ACROSS THE SOUTH TO SLOWLY ROTATE AROUND TO THE NORTH OVER THE NEXT 48-60 HOURS. AND WHILE THERE MAY BE A TAD BETTER POP IN THE WRN PTNS (CLOSER TO THE MOISTURE FETCH) THAN THE ERN PTNS...THIS MAY BE MUTED BY A LTL MORE CLOUDINESS THERE...AND THUS A LTL LESS DIURNAL EFFECT. SO WL GO AHEAD AND COMBINE INTO JUST A GENERAL N-S BREAK-OUT SIMILAR TO YDAYS. WITH THE STRONG RIDGING PATTERN...WL CONTINUE TO BIAS FORECAST TO WARM SIDE OF MODEL NOS FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE. THE EXTENDED FCST CONTINUES TO SUGGEST MAYBE A SMALL BREAK OVR THE WEEKEND TO SLIGHTLY LOWER POPS...AND MAYBE EVEN SLIGHTLY LOWER TEMPS...BUT THAT WOULD JUST BRING US BACK TO MORE SEASONAL L90S/L70S. .PAH...NONE.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
231 PM CDT TUE JUL 02 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0205 PM GUTHRIE KY 1.00 INCH HAIL
07/02/02 TODD REPORTED BY GUTHRIE P.D.
0215 PM ELKTON KY 4.50 INCH HAIL
07/02/02 TODD REPORTED BY GUTHRIE P.D.
SOFTBALL HAIL REPORTED
JUST SOUTH OF ELKTON
ALONG HWY 181PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
238 PM CDT TUE JUL 02 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0205 PM GUTHRIE KY 1.00 INCH HAIL
07/02/02 TODD REPORTED BY GUTHRIE P.D.
0215 PM 4N GUTHRIE KY 4.50 INCH HAIL
07/02/02 TODD REPORTED BY GUTHRIE P.D.
SOFTBALL HAIL REPORTED
ALONG HWY 181. THIS
REPORT IS A CORRECTION TO
THE PREVIOUS SOFTBALL
HAIL REPORT.The Paducah radar (KPAH), 52 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:15 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Several trees and a couple of power poles were blown down.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Illinois in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Illinois, July 2002
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