1 hail, 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 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.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Baseball size hail was reported along Highway 181 about 4 miles northwest of Guthrie. Vehicles were dented. In Guthrie, quarter size hail was reported. The large hail was caused by a severe thunderstorm that drifted slowly north across the Guthrie area from Tennessee.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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