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 May 28, 1:00 PM CST, 5 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 200 PM CDT WED MAY 28 2003 MESOETA SEEMS TO HAVE DECENT GRASP ON UPSTREAM CLOUDS/SHOWER ACTIVITY. IT YIELDS BEST CHC PCPN NE PTNS FA WHERE BEST MRH WL EXIST AS WAVE ROLLS DOWN INTO OUR FAS PIX. SURFACE TDS ONLY IN 50S NOW WL NEED TO EXPERIENCE SOME UPSTREAM ADVECTION (WHERE THEY ARE IN THE 60S) AND/OR CLOUDS BREAK LATE TODAY AND ALLOW SOME INSOLATION TO GET UPDRAFTS GOING. COLD UPR POOL AND DRY MID-LOWER TROP LAYER STILL IN EXISTANT HELPS SUPPORT SPC CONTINUATION OF DAY1 THREAT OVER NRN/ERN 2/3 PAH FA. THREAT WL BE OVER BY 06Z AS WAVE ROLLS ON OUT...W/CLEARING SKIES FROM W-E LATE TONIGHT-EARLY TOMORROW. BEYOND NR TERM MODELS HAVE CONTINUED THEIR SPEEDING UP OF FRI-FRI NIGHT CHC PCPN W/FROPA AND HAVE THEREFORE MADE MINOR ADJUSTMENTS...MAINLY AN ALL DAY-EARLY FRI NIGHT CHC WEST TO A FRI PM-FRI NIGHT CHC EAST. AFTER THAT MODELS SHOW LTL CHANGE WITH REINFORCING COOL SHOT TO START THE WEEKEND SEASONALLY COOL/DRY...GRADUALLY MODERATING TO NR NORMAL BY EARLY NEXT WEEK...WHEN NEXT CHC PCPN ENTERS FCST TUE. MOS GUIDANCE IS PRETTY SIMILAR EXCEPT FOR LARGE FRIDAY DIFFERENCE ON HIGHS. BELIEVE THIS DUE TO MUCH MORE AGGRESSIVE GFS HANDLE ON MOISTURE/PCPN AND SINCE WE BIAS OUR FORECAST TO THE META WE HAVE OPTED TO LEAN TOWARD THE WARMER FRI MOS NOS...THOUGH NOT BITING IN ALL THE WAY. .PAH...NONE.
ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087-100- 107>112-114-291000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 545 PM CDT WED MAY 28 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA AND WESTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...REST OF TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA AND NORTHWEST KENTUCKY LATE TODAY AND EARLY TONIGHT. LATE THIS AFTERNOON...SCATTERED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO TRACK SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH ACROSS CENTRAL ILLINOIS. IT APPEARS THE AREA WITH THE GREATEST LIKELIHOOD OF EXPERIENCING SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE EAST OF A MOUNT VERNON ILLINOIS...MORGANFIELD KENTUCKY...GREENVILLE KENTUCKY LINE. THERE IS LESS OF A RISK FURTHER WEST INTO THE SOUTHERN TIP OF ILLINOIS AND FAR WESTERN KENTUCKY...BUT AN ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CANNOT BE RULED OUT. THE MAIN HAZARDS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND HIGH WIND. THE STORMS SHOULD BE OUT OF THE AREA BY MIDNIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TO DEVELOP ALONG A COLD FRONT THAT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH THE QUAD STATE FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... FOR SOUTHWEST INDIANA...NORTHWEST KENTUCKY AND MOST OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. FOR SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...THE SOUTHERN TIP OF ILLINOIS AND FAR WESTERN KENTUCKY...ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. CN
ILZ075-080-081-084-MOZ076-290010- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 624 PM CDT WED MAY 28 2003 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM TO AFFECT PERRY COUNTY ILLINOIS... AT 620 PM...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST NORTH OF THE PERRY COUNTY LINE...OVER EXTREME SOUTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH...INTO NORTHERN PERRY COUNTY...THROUGH 700 PM. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE RICE AND TAMAROA. THIS STORM SHOULD CONTAIN AT LEAST PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL. GUSTY WINDS 30 TO 45 MPH ARE ALSO POSSIBLE.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A carport was blown onto telephone lines. Numerous large tree limbs and a few trees were blown down. Some tin was blown off the roofs of older buildings in rural parts of the county.
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