Funnel Cloud in Missouri, May 3, 2006

Name: Funnel Cloud in Missouri, May 3, 2006
Start: 2006-05-03T14:37
End: 2006-05-03T14:37
Location: Missouri

May 3, 2006 · NWS PAH · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 funnel cloud, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

What forecasters said that day

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 3, 12:15 PM CST, 2 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 3, 12:15 PM CST, 2 hours 22 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
115 PM CDT WED MAY 3 2006

.DISCUSSION...

SURFACE BOUNDARY DRAPED ACROSS IA/IL INTO MO MOVING THIS WAY...HAS
CONVECTION ON ITS LEAD EDGE THREATENING PAH FA. RISING PM CAPES ESP
IN SEMO VCNTY HELPING STORMS DEVELOP ON/AHEAD OF TAIL END OF FRONT
AS WELL. NEW SVR TSM WATCH 282 JUST ISSUED FOR SEMO/SIL/SWKY TIL 01Z
COVERS MAINLY (DIURNAL) HAIL THREAT GIVEN WEAK WIND FIELDS.

FRONT IS DRAGGED ACROSS ENTIRE FA TONIGHT BY MID LEVEL WAVE MOVING
ACROSS LOWER OH VALLEY. ANTICIPATE SURFACE BASED INSTABILITY TO
DECREASE WITH LOSS OF DIURNAL AID...HOWEVER...STILL GOOD ENOUGH
ENVIRO GIVEN MOISTURE IN PLACE AND FRONT/WEAK UPPER SUPPORT TO
WARRANT POPS RANGING FROM LKLY (NORTH) TO CHC CAT (SOUTHEAST).
TOMORROW THIS WL FLIP WITH BOUNDARY STALLING IN SRN/ERN PTNS
FA...AND ANOTHER WAVE PROGGED TO EJECT OUT OF THE SRN PLAINS AND
MOVE ALONG THE BOUNDARY...ESP LATE THU-THU NIGHT...AGAIN OUTLOOKED
SLGT RISK SVR.

GFS SEEMED TO INITIALIZE BETTER ON CONVECTIVE ZONE WITH NAM
OVERDOING ITS PCPN BOTH ON 06Z AND 12Z RUNS. THEREFORE WE FOLLOWED
THE 12Z GFS FOR THE 1ST 24 HOURS. HOWEVER...IT BEGINS TO SUFFER FROM
CONVECTIVE FEEDBACK AFTER THAT...SO WE TREND BACK TO NAM/NGM HANDLE
ON 2ND WAVE IE THU-THU NIGHT-FRI. OUR FORECAST BIAS IS REFLECTED
RELATIVE TO THEIR RESPECTIVE MOS POPS NOS AS WELL.

AFTER THAT THE FORECAST IS LITTLE CHANGED. WE RETAINED THE FRI NIGHT
POP BUT DOWNPLAYED GIVEN THE BOUNDARY IS WASHING OUT OF THE PICTURE
BY THEN. WE WENT DRY OVER THE WEEKEND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK...WITH
OUR NEXT CHC PCPN STILL SLATED TO COME IN LATE DAY 6 INTO DAY 7.
THIS WAS PRETTY MUCH IN LINE WITH THE COLLABORATIVE CONSENSUS AS
WELL.

THE TEMP FORECAST WL DISPLAY A SIMILAR BIAS ALTHOUGH ODDLY THE MOS
DID NOT TRANSLATE THE MODEL EFFECTS OF HIGHER V LOWER POPS
ABSOLUTELY TO A TEMP BIAS. THE FWC HAS RETAINED ITS WARM BIAS SO
WEVE TRENDED SLIGHTLY LOWER THAN ITS NOS. NEAR TERM WE LIKED GFS
MAV MOS...BUT AGAIN TRENDED TOWARD NAM MET MOS IN THE MEDIUM RANGE.
THE LONGER RANGE FORECAST WAS A BLEND OF THE MOS WITH THE
COLLABORATIVE PICTURE AND PERSISTENCE STRATEGY FORECASTING ALSO
TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT.

&&

.PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
KY...SVR TSM WATCH 282 SWRN COUNTIES TIL 01Z.
MO...SVR TSM WATCH 282 ALL COUNTIES TIL 01Z.
IL...SVR TSM WATCH 282 ALL COUNTIES TIL 01Z.
IN...NONE.

&&

Hazardous weather outlook, May 3, 2:30 PM CST, 7 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
330 PM CDT WED MAY 3 2006

ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087-
100-107>112-114-041000-
JEFFERSON-WAYNE IL-EDWARDS-WABASH-PERRY IL-FRANKLIN-HAMILTON-
WHITE-JACKSON-WILLIAMSON-SALINE-GALLATIN-UNION IL-JOHNSON-POPE-
HARDIN-ALEXANDER-PULASKI-MASSAC-GIBSON-PIKE-POSEY-VANDERBURGH-
WARRICK-SPENCER-FULTON-HICKMAN-CARLISLE-BALLARD-MCCRACKEN-GRAVES-
LIVINGSTON-MARSHALL-CALLOWAY-CRITTENDEN-LYON-TRIGG-CALDWELL-
UNION KY-WEBSTER-HOPKINS-CHRISTIAN-HENDERSON-DAVIESS-MCLEAN-
MUHLENBERG-TODD-PERRY MO-BOLLINGER-CAPE GIRARDEAU-WAYNE MO-CARTER-
RIPLEY-BUTLER-STODDARD-SCOTT-MISSISSIPPI-NEW MADRID-
330 PM CDT WED MAY 3 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN
ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY...AND SOUTHEAST
MISSOURI.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES THROUGH EARLY THIS
EVENING. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM FOR
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...AND FAR SOUTHWEST
KENTUCKY. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS HAIL...ALTHOUGH
ISOLATED DAMAGING WINDS OR TORNADOS CANNOT BE RULED
OUT...ESPECIALLY NEAR OR ALONG BOUNDARIES. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS
ALSO A THREAT.

A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES OVERNIGHT BUT THE THREAT OF
SEVERE WEATHER DECREASES WITH THE LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY AND
THURSDAY NIGHT...WITH SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND
WESTERN KENTUCKY UNDER A SLIGHTLY HIGHER THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER
THAN NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE REGION...SINCE AN OLD FRONTAL
BOUNDARY WILL BE STALLED ALONG THE ARKANSAS AND TENNESSE BORDER REGION.
THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE HAIL WITH AN
ISOLATED WIND OR TORNADIC THREAT AS WELL. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL
ALSO BE A THREAT.

A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS FORECAST FOR FRIDAY TOO...BUT WIDESPREAD
SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME FOR FRIDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTERS ACTIVATED THIS EVENING MAY ALSO BE REQUESTED FOR
ACTIVATION THURSDAY OR THURSDAY NIGHT.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 3, 1:33 PM CST, 1 hour 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
233 PM CDT WED MAY 03 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0229 PM     NON-TSTM WND GST WHITTINGTON             38.09N 88.90W
05/03/2006  E60 MPH          FRANKLIN           IL   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            THERE WAS ALSO 0.75 INCH HAIL REPORTED IN THE SAME AREA.

&&

DLL

Local storm report, May 3, 1:39 PM CST, 58 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
239 PM CDT WED MAY 03 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0215 PM     HAIL             1 N SESSER              38.10N 89.05W
05/03/2006  E1.75 INCH       FRANKLIN           IL   BROADCAST MEDIA

&&

DLL

Local storm report, May 3, 1:56 PM CST, 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
256 PM CDT WED MAY 03 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0254 PM     HAIL             HANDY                   36.79N 91.08W
05/03/2006  E1.00 INCH       RIPLEY             MO   EMERGENCY MNGR

&&

DLL

Local storm report, May 3, 2:28 PM CST, 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
328 PM CDT WED MAY 03 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0327 PM     TSTM WND GST     POPLAR BLUFF            36.76N 90.41W
05/03/2006  E60 MPH          BUTLER             MO   EMERGENCY MNGR

&&

DLL

Local storm report, May 3, 2:31 PM CST, 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
331 PM CDT WED MAY 03 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0322 PM     FUNNEL CLOUD     10 W POPLAR BLUFF       36.76N 90.59W
05/03/2006                   BUTLER             MO   EMERGENCY MNGR

            NEAR STRINGTOWN

&&

DLL

Local storm report, May 3, 2:33 PM CST, 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
333 PM CDT WED MAY 03 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0333 PM     TSTM WND GST     POPLAR BLUFF            36.76N 90.41W
05/03/2006  M60 MPH          BUTLER             MO   EMERGENCY MNGR

&&

DLL

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 151 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:37 UTC.

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Event by event

1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.

Funnel Cloud, Butler

When: May 3, 2:37 PM CST
Where: Butler County, 1 mi N of Poplar Bluff
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 36.716, -90.407 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

What these are

Funnel Cloud: A rotating column of cloud extending from a thunderstorm that did not reach the ground.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Missouri in 2006 Every state in 2006 This day in weather history Warnings in Missouri, May 2006

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5508612.