A line of intense thunderstorms developed over western Marshall County, then moved north-northwest across parts of McCracken and Livingston Counties. These storms produced a few marginally severe wind gusts up to 60 MPH and one report of marginally severe hail.
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The episode as NWS PAH wrote it up.
A line of intense thunderstorms developed over western Marshall County, then moved north-northwest across parts of McCracken and Livingston Counties. These storms produced a few marginally severe wind gusts up to 60 MPH and one report of marginally severe hail.
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 Jun 10, 12:15 PM CST, 5 hours 59 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 115 PM CDT FRI JUN 10 2005 .DISCUSSION... MESO SCALE VORT SEEN ON VISIBLE IMAGERY DEPARTING SRN IL ATTM...W/RADAR SHOWING SCT CONVECTION DIURNALLY AIDED DEVELOPING OVER FA. MESO ENVIRONMENT FAVORABLE FOR LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS AND NOT MUCH ELSE...PER UPDATED DISCUSSION...SIMILAR TO YDAY. EXPECT ACTIVITY TO CONTINUE THRU EARLY EVENING...TIL LOSS OF DIURNAL AID...SO WELL MAINTAIN SCT CHC POP THRU ABOUT 03Z. AFTER THAT WE TRANSITION TO INTERPOLATING THE MODELS HANDLE OF NOW TROPICAL STORM ARLENE AND ITS FACTOR IN OUR FORECAST. GFS SEEMS TO BE THE MOST CONSISTENT AT LEAST...BUT NET RESULT OF BOTH IS INCREASING WEEKEND POPS TIL ITS LOW PRESSURE CENTER LIFTS NORTH AND THEN VEERS EAST AS PLAINS FRONT MOVES IN/THRU AND EFFECTIVELY ENDS DAILY POPS BY MID WEEK NEXT. MOS POPS ARE EXCEPTIONALLY HIGH OVER THE WEEKEND...OBVIOUSLY INFLUENCED BY EXTRA-TROPICAL INTERACTION. PREFER TO MAINTAIN THE GOING PERSISTENCE/COLLABORATIVE BLEND FORECAST APPROACH...WHICH MEANS A SLIGHTLY LOWER OVERALL POP BUT STILL HIGH RELATIVELY SPEAKING. IN FACT HAVE CHOSEN TO NUDGE UPWARDS ALL AREAS...ESP ERN 1/2 FA...GIVEN DIFFERING POSSIBLE LOW TRACKS MAINLY EAST OF THE MS. AGAIN CONFIDENCE IS JUST NOT THERE TO HAVE A LARGE TAPER FROM NIL/LOW POPS WRN PTNS TO LIKELY-CAT POPS ERN PTNS...AT LEAST NOT YET. SUMMER LIKE TEMPS/TDS SHOULD CONTINUE TO BIAS US TOWARD WARMER MOS...BUT WITH INCREASING MEAN RH SHOULD SEE MORE SCT CONVECTION/MORE CLOUDS AND ULTIMATELY LESS DIURNAL RANGE IN TEMPS...SO WELL MAKE ADJUSTMENTS ACCORDINGLY. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... .KY...NONE. .MO...NONE. .IL...NONE. .IN...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 637 PM CDT FRI JUN 10 2005 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087-100- 107>112-114-111000- ALEXANDER IL-BALLARD KY-BOLLINGER MO-BUTLER MO-CALDWELL KY- CALLOWAY KY-CAPE GIRARDEAU MO-CARLISLE KY-CARTER MO-CHRISTIAN KY- CRITTENDEN KY-DAVIESS KY-EDWARDS IL-FRANKLIN IL-FULTON KY- GALLATIN IL-GIBSON IN-GRAVES KY-HAMILTON IL-HARDIN IL-HENDERSON KY- HICKMAN KY-HOPKINS KY-JACKSON IL-JEFFERSON IL-JOHNSON IL- LIVINGSTON KY-LYON KY-MARSHALL KY-MASSAC IL-MCCRACKEN KY-MCLEAN KY- MISSISSIPPI MO-MUHLENBERG KY-NEW MADRID MO-PERRY MO-PERRY IL-PIKE IN- POPE IL-POSEY IN-PULASKI IL-RIPLEY MO-SALINE IL-SCOTT MO-SPENCER IN- STODDARD MO-TODD KY-TRIGG KY-UNION KY-UNION IL-VANDERBURGH IN- WABASH IL-WARRICK IN-WAYNE MO-WAYNE IL-WEBSTER KY-WHITE IL- WILLIAMSON IL- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SIKESTON...POPLAR BLUFF...PERRYVILLE... CAPE GIRARDEAU...PADUCAH...HERRIN...HARRISBURG...CARMI... CARBONDALE...CAIRO...OWENSBORO...MURRAY...MAYFIELD...HOPKINSVILLE... EVANSVILLE...MADISONVILLE AND HENDERSON 637 PM CDT FRI JUN 10 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA AND WESTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THIS EVENING. THE ACTIVITY SHOULD DIMINISH OVERNIGHT. A FEW OF THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE BRIEF BUT VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...AND GUSTY WINDS. THE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING SHOULD REMAIN BELOW SEVERE THRESHOLDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY...MAINLY EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. HOWEVER...NO ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 249 PM CDT FRI JUN 10 2005 INZ086-102159- VANDERBURGH IN- 249 PM CDT FRI JUN 10 2005 ...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE ACROSS EVANSVILLE INDIANA THIS AFTERNOON... PERIODIC THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE SLOWLY NORTHWARD THROUGH EVANSVILLE...AS WELL AS THE EASTERN HALF OF VANDERBURGH COUNTY THROUGH 5 PM. A SERIES OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS WESTERN KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON...MOVING SLOWLY ACROSS VANDERBURGH COUNTY BETWEEN 10 AND 15 MPH. THE MAIN HAZARD WILL BE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...RANGING BETWEEN ONE HALF AND ONE INCH OF RAIN AN HOUR. THIS WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER IN POORLY DRAINED AND LOW LYING AREAS...AS WELL AS SOME CITY STREETS AND COUNTY ROADS. PERSONS OUTSIDE SHOULD ALSO BE WATCHFUL FOR LIGHTNING AND MOVE INDOORS IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES YOUR AREA. SMITH
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
711 PM CDT FRI JUN 10 2005
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0708 PM HAIL 2 NW DRAFFENVILLE 36.96N 88.37W
06/10/2005 0.50 INCH MARSHALL KY TRAINED SPOTTER
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CNThe Paducah radar (KPAH), 38 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:15 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A spotter estimated a wind gust to 60 MPH. Along U.S. Highway 68, a large tree about 2.5 feet in diameter was snapped off four feet above the ground.
Four to six inch tree limbs were blown down.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kentucky in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Kentucky, June 2005
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