Isolated severe thunderstorms developed during the heat of the day. A very weak 500 mb trough axis extended from west to east across the Lower Ohio Valley.
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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.
The episode as NWS PAH wrote it up.
Isolated severe thunderstorms developed during the heat of the day. A very weak 500 mb trough axis extended from west to east across the Lower Ohio Valley.
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 26, 1:00 PM CST, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 200 PM CDT TUE JUN 26 2007 .DISCUSSION... RADAR SHOWS DIURNALLY AIDED CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT ONGOING WITH MAINLY LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...ISOLD SMALL HAIL/WIND. EXPECT MORE OF SAME IN HIGHER THETA-E FETCH ALONG/JUST EAST OF CROWLEYS RIDGE...AT LEAST UNTIL FUELING MECHANISM WANES THIS EVENING. BY 06Z MOST ALL ECHOES SHOULD BE GONE BUT BETTER MOISTURE INCOMING FROM WEST KEEPS SMALL CHC PCPN MENTION WRN SEMO THRU THE NIGHT. ANOTHER DAY LIKE TODAY EXPECTED TOMORROW...WITH PERHAPS SLIGHTLY BETTER OVERALL POPS GIVEN NEARING FRONTAL BOUNDARY...ALBEIT STILL PRE FRONTAL. NEAR PROXIMITY OF BOUNDARY BY TOMORROW NIGHT KEEPS CHC CAT POPS GOING EVEN W/LOSS OF DIURNAL FUEL...THEN PEAK POP STILL ANTICIPATED W/BOUNDARY ITSELF THU...WELL INTO LIKELY CAT MOST LOCALES. NEW GFS SUGGESTS SLOWER FROPA WITH CATAFRONTIC ACTIVITY BUT COLLAB YIELD IS PEAKING POP ALONG/AHEAD OF BOUNDARY...SO WE BEGIN TO DIMINISH POPS FRI NORTH TO SOUTH...BECOMING DRY FORECAST BY SAT TO ALLOW FOR SLOWING/STALLING MOVEMENT ALONG/THRU SRN PTNS FA AS HAS BEEN ADVERTIZED LAST SEVERAL RUNS. RAIN DEFICITS STILL RUNNING ON THE ORDER OF 2-3 BLO CLIMO WELL COULD APPROACH NORMAL BY END OF WEEK GIVEN HIGH PWS. SOUNDINGS SUGGEST LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS TO CONTINUE TO BE MAIN THREAT ALTHOUGH ISOLD SMALL HAILERS/WIND CANNOT BE RULED OUT. NAM/MAV BLEND WORKING NICELY WITH PERSISTENCE/COLLAB ON TEMP NOS. UNDER MOS VIA COLLABD ENDING POPS WITH SYSTEM PASSAGE FRI. && .AVIATION... WITH THE EARLIER 18Z TAF ISSUANCE...FOLLOWED THE MINIMALIST APPROACH USED WITH THE 12Z TAF ISSUANCES...LIMITING VCTS TO EACH OF THE SITES...UNTIL TOWERING CU DEVELOPED NEAR EACH SITE AND AMENDING AS THUNDERSTORMS TARGET EACH LOCATION. UNLIKE SUNDAY...MOST OF THE CONVECTION NEAR EACH TAF SITE SHOULD DIMINISH CLOSE TO 00Z. AFTER 00Z...KEEP BROKEN MID CLOUD DECK...GENERALLY BETWEEN 12-15KFT OVERNIGHT. NEXT CHANCE FOR PRECIPITATION IS NOT PRESENTED IN THE TAF SITES UNTIL 16-18Z TIME FRAME ON WEDNESDAY. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KY...NONE. MO...NONE. IL...NONE. IN...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 422 AM CDT TUE JUN 26 2007 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-271000- 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- 422 AM CDT TUE JUN 26 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THE PRIMARY THREAT WITH SCATTERED MAINLY HEAT OF THE DAY THUNDERSTORMS IS LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. AN ISOLATED SEVERE STORM CANNOT BE RULED OUT...BUT ORGANIZED OR WIDESPREAD SEVERE ACTIVITY IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY A GOOD CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS FORECAST WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. THE BEST CHANCE WILL BE ON THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT WHEN A WEAK COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE REGION. ALTHOUGH AN ISOLATED SEVERE STORM CANNOT BE RULED OUT...THE PRIMARY THREAT THROUGHOUT THE PERIOD WILL BE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER...THE RELAY OF ANY ISOLATED REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER OR SIGNIFICANT HEAVY RAIN WOULD BE APPRECIATED. DRS
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
343 PM CDT TUE JUN 26 2007
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0230 PM HEAVY RAIN HICKMAN 36.56N 89.19W
06/26/2007 M2.30 INCH FULTON KY DEPT OF HIGHWAYS
THE HEAVY RAIN FELL WITHIN A 45 TO 60 MINUTE TIMERAME.
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MIKENPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
348 PM CDT TUE JUN 26 2007
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0345 PM NON-TSTM WND GST 1 E CUBA 36.56N 88.62W
06/26/2007 E60 MPH GRAVES KY TRAINED SPOTTER
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MIKENThe Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 17 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:51 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
Trees were blown down, including one that fell on a house and another that fell across a road.
Street flooding was reported.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Indiana in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in Indiana, June 2007
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: 31841, 31845.