A line of thunderstorms produced strong gusty winds and an isolated report of wind damage. The line of storms was associated with strong low level southwest winds ahead of a deep low pressure center along the Missouri/Nebraska border.
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A line of thunderstorms produced strong gusty winds and an isolated report of wind damage. The line of storms was associated with strong low level southwest winds ahead of a deep low pressure center along the Missouri/Nebraska border.
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 Oct 18, 2:30 AM CST, 2 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 330 AM CDT THU OCT 18 2007 .DISCUSSION...MAIN CONCERN CONTINUES TO BE SEVERE STORM POTENTIAL EARLY TODAY...AND THEN AGAIN LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WILL NEED TO BE BRIEF TODAY DUE TO ONGOING SEVERE WEATHER. LINE OF VERY STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO SWEEP EAST ACROSS THE MS RIVER AND THROUGH WRN KY AND SW IN DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. MAIN ISSUE HAS BEEN WITH DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...BUT AN ISOLATED TORNADO CANNOT BE RULED OUT WITH VERY STRONG WIND SHEAR ALOFT. ONCE THIS LINE OF CONVECTION PASSES...SHOULD SEE DRY SLOT/BRIEF SUBSIDENCE PRODUCE SOME SUNSHINE LATER THIS MORNING INTO THE AFTERNOON HOURS. TEMPS WILL WARM WELL INTO THE 80S...AND THE AIRMASS WILL DESTABILIZE RAPIDLY AS A SURFACE FRONT WORKS INTO SE MO AROUND MID AFTERNOON. WITH NEXT H50 SHORT WAVE WORKING EAST AT THE SAME TIME...EXPECT STORMS TO FIRE AROUND MID AFTERNOON JUST AHEAD OF THE FRONT IN SE MO. SOME SEVERE STORMS APPEAR LIKELY AS THE STORMS MOVE EAST ACROSS THE REGION DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. STORM PREDICTION CENTER HIGHLIGHTS MOST AREAS ALONG AND EAST OF THE MS RIVER WITH MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE LATER THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING...WITH SLIGHT RISK WEST OF THE MS RVR MAINLY THIS AFTERNOON. WITH THE VERY STRONG WIND PROFILES AND SHEAR...EXPECT A VERY GOOD CHC OF DAMAGING WINDS...AND A RISK OF A FEW TORNADOES WITH THIS ACTIVITY. THINK THE FRONT AND ASSOCIATED STORMS WILL BE EAST OF THE REGION BEFORE MIDNIGHT. DID NOT MAKE MUCH CHANGES TO THE FORECAST AFTER TONIGHT. STILL LOOKS LIKE THERE COULD BE SOME WRAP AROUND STRATUS CLOUDS WITH THE UPPER LOW PASSAGE OVER THE MUCH OF THE REGION...THEN HIGH PRESSURE SHOULD BRING ANOTHER SUNNY AND MILD WEEKEND. && .AVIATION... PLENTY OF ENERGY IN THIS LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL MOTIVATE A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE TSTMS TO MOVE ENEWD THROUGH THE FOUR STATE REGION BY 12Z. THE SPEED OF THE STORMS WAS 50 TO 60 MPH...BRINGING THESE WIND SPEEDS TO THE SFC JUST AHEAD OF THE STORMS. IN THE WAKE OF THE STORMS...RAPID DRYING WILL OCCUR IN THE ATMOSPHERE FROM ABOUT 3 KFT AND UP FOR MUCH OF THE DAY. JUST AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT...WINDS AT THE SFC WILL BE GUSTING ABOVE 25 KT ACROSS THE AREA. BY AROUND LATE AFTN...MORE POSSIBLY SVR TSTMS ARE EXPECTED TO ERUPT EAST OF THE MS RIVER JUST AHEAD OF THE FRONT AND MOVE RAPIDLY EWD THROUGHOUT THE EVENING. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KY...NONE. MO...NONE. IL...NONE. IN...NONE. && MEFFERT/DB
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</html>The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 31 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 10:32 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Utility poles were down about one half mile east-northeast of the Evansville airport. The automated wind equipment at the airport failed during the storm, but a gust to 46 mph was measured immediately before it failed.
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, October 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 59521.