An isolated severe weather event occurred in the Wabash Valley. The storm occurred in a deep southwest flow ahead of a broad upper level trough over the southern Plains.
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An isolated severe weather event occurred in the Wabash Valley. The storm occurred in a deep southwest flow ahead of a broad upper level trough over the southern Plains.
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 27, 2:05 PM CST, 3 hours 14 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 305 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2007 .DISCUSSION... MAIN CONCERN SYNOPTICALLY FOR THIS FORECAST IS EVOLUTION OF PATTERN SHIFT FROM EASTERN RIDGE TO EASTERN TROUGH...AND IMPACT ON POPS AND TEMPERATURES FOR LATE IN THE WEEK AND INTO THE WEEKEND. IN THE MEANTIME MAIN CONCERN IS WHERE AND WHEN TO INCLUDE SMALL POPS. THE 12Z MODELS AND ASSOCIATED MOS POP GUIDANCE ARE TRENDING DRIER THROUGH TUESDAY. IN GENERAL...THE GFS AND NAM AGREE ON PUSHING A MID/UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM EAST THROUGH THE GREAT LAKES TONIGHT...ALLOWING RIDGING TO DEVELOP BACK THROUGH THE MID AND UPPER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY THROUGH THE DAY MONDAY. PUMPING UP THE RIDGE KEEPS THE WEAK SYSTEM CURRENTLY OVER TEXAS BOTTLED UP TO OUR WEST. AT THE SURFACE...THE WEAK COLD FRONT OVER CENTRAL ILLINOIS WILL FALL APART OVERNIGHT...ALLOWING SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE TO RE-ASSERT ITSELF OVER THE REGION. WINDS MAY BRIEFLY BECOME LIGHT NORTHWEST TONIGHT...BUT SHOULD BECOME SOUTH SOUTHEAST TOMORROW...AS THE SURFACE HIGH BUILDS OVER THE EASTERN GREAT LAKES. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND MORE ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS CURRENTLY OVER NORTHWEST HALF OF THE FORECAST AREA ARE FORMING IN AREA OF CONVERGENCE RUNNING FROM FAR SOUTHEAST MISSOURI INTO SOUTHWEST INDIANA. THIS ACTIVITY SHOULD DIE OFF QUICKLY BY SUNSET IF NOT BEFORE 00Z. OTHER ACTIVITY FURTHER SOUTH AND WEST APPEARS TO BE TIED TO THE LEADING EDGE OF SOUTHWEST FLOW AROUND 700 MB. THIS ACTIVITY MAY HOLD TOGETHER INTO THE EVENING BUT SHOULD LIFT MOSTLY NORTH BY 06Z. WILL KEEP A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHRA/TSRA TIL 06Z IN THE WEST AND NORTH...AND THEN PULL MENTION OF TSRA AND KEEP SHRA ONLY IN THE WESTERN THIRD OF THE AREA OVERNIGHT. GIVEN THE RIDGING ALOFT AND LACK OF A SIGNIFICANT BOUNDARY...WOULD BE VERY SURPRISED TO SEE MUCH MORE THAN AN ISOLATED DIURNAL SHOWER OR THUNDERSTORM MONDAY...BUT KEPT A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHRA/TSRA IN THE AFTERNOON IN WESTERN AND NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE AREA. WILL KEEP MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY MORNING DRY...AND LIMIT DIURNAL SHRA/TSRA TO FAR WESTERN ZONES OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI TUESDAY AFTERNOON. WILL KEEP TUESDAY NIGHT DRY. INTO THE MEDIUM RANGE...THERE IS EXTREMELY LOW CONFIDENCE IN THE EVOLUTION OF THE SYNOPTIC PATTERN. THE GFS HAS GONE FROM A PROGRESSIVE UPPER SYSTEM AND FRONT MOVING THROUGH THE AREA THURSDAY...TO A STAGNANT PATTERN WITH A CLOSED LOW DEVELOPING OVER THE NORTHERN PLAINS AND SLOWLY DRIFTING TOWARD THE AREA OVER THE WEEKEND IN ITS 12Z RUN. HPC IS GOING WITH A MORE PROGRESSIVE SOLUTION FOR NOW...WHICH WILL BE FOLLOWED HERE GIVEN ALL OF THE UNCERTAINTY. WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED IF THE SLOWER SOLUTION OF THE GFS PANS OUT...BUT LITTLE SUPPORTING EVIDENCE AT THIS TIME TO GO TOWARD IT IN THIS FORECAST. WILL HAVE A FRONTAL PASSAGE ON THURSDAY WITH GOOD CHANCE POPS AREAWIDE. WILL RAMP POPS UP WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...AND DRY IT OUT BY FRIDAY NIGHT. THE WEEKEND FORECAST WILL BE DRY WITH AREA CAUGHT BETWEEN SYSTEMS. IF THE 12Z GFS PANS OUT THOUGH...IT WILL LIKELY BE WET NEXT WEEKEND. TEMPERATURES WILL HOLD IN THE MID AND UPPER 80S FOR HIGHS THROUGH WEDNESDAY...WITH LOW TO MID 60S FOR LOWS. BEHIND THE FRONT...TEMPERATURES WILL FALL BACK TO MORE NORMAL LEVELS IN THE UPPER 70S AND LOWER 80S AND LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S AND LOWER 60S. && .AVIATION... THE RADAR SCOPE SHOWED SCT SHOWERS WITH ISOLD LIGHTNING ACROSS SERN MO AND PARTS OF SRN IL AND SWRN IND. OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES RESULTING FROM THIS ACTIVITY MAY CAUSE SHIFTS IN WIND DIRECTION IN SERN MO AND WESTERNMOST KY IN THE AFTN. HOWEVER...GUSTS SHOULD REMAIN BELOW 20 KNOTS. THE SERN U.S. RIDGE SHOULD CONTINUE TO SUPPRESS THE CHANCES OF PCPN/TS FOR MOST OF WRN KY AND SWRN IND THROUGH THE TAF PERIOD... THOUGH SOME SHOWERS MAY PASS FAIRLY CLOSE TO THE PAH AND EVV TAF SITES IN THE AFTN. OUTSIDE THE SHOWER ACTIVITY...EXPECT VFR CONDITIONS. SOME LIGHT FOG/HAZE IS POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KY...NONE. MO...NONE. IL...NONE. IN...NONE. && PUBLIC...DRS AVIATION...DB
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 347 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2007 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-281000- 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- 347 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...AND SOUTHWEST INDIANA WILL LIKELY GENERATE WIND GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH THROUGH SUNSET. A VERY ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE...WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR LOCALIZED DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY SMALL CHANCES OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST OVER ALL BUT WEST KENTUCKY MONDAY AFTERNOON...AND OVER WESTERN PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI TUESDAY AFTERNOON. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED EITHER DAY. BETTER CHANCES OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST THROUGHOUT THE AREA WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. WHILE THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY BE STRONGER AND MORE NUMEROUS...THE POTENTIAL FOR AN ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAK APPEARS LOW AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. DRS
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
338 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2007
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0220 PM TSTM WND DMG 3 S BLODGETT 36.96N 89.53W
05/27/2007 SCOTT MO COUNTY OFFICIAL
AT HWY H AND COUNTY ROAD 524..SEVERAL TREES WERE DOWN AND
ACROSS ROADS. TREES RANGED IN DIAMETER FROM 6 TO 18
INCHES. 6 TO 8 HOUSES HAD MINOR WIND DAMAGE TO THEIR
ROOFS...MAINLY SHINGLES BLOWN OFF...AND ALSO SIDING AND
FENCE DAMAGE.
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CWThe Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 18 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:19 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Local law enforcement reported 55 to 60 MPH winds with large tree limbs down.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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