A couple of thunderstorms briefly pulsed up to severe levels during the heat of the day.
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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.
A couple of thunderstorms briefly pulsed up to severe levels during the heat of the 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 Aug 2, 2:22 AM CST, 11 hours 8 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 322 AM CDT THU AUG 2 2007 .DISCUSSION... ACTUALLY HAD A FEW ISOLATED SHOWERS OVER SEMO AND THE SOUTHERN PENNYRILE REGION OF WEST KENTUCKY LAST EVENING DUE TO THE PRESENCE OF HIGHER SURFACE DEWPOINTS AND A THETA E RIDGE. MIGHT SEE THE SAME SCENARIO AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON...BUT ANY ACTIVITY WILL BE SO ISOLATED...WILL KEEP POPS 14 OR LESS. LATEST MODEL RUNS...ESPECIALLY THE GFS NOW SHOWING THE H5 RIDGE RETROGRADING JUST ENOUGH TO ALLOW NORTHWEST FLOW TO WORK SOUTHWARD INTO THE CWA OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. AS A RESULT...MODELS ARE NOW PUSHING A COLD FRONT INTO THE CWA FRIDAY NIGHT AND STALLING IT OUT E-W ACROSS THE CWA THROUGH SATURDAY. COULD HAVE POPS LATE FRIDAY NIGHT INTO EARLY SATURDAY MORNING IF AN MCS DEVELOPS ALONG THE BOUNDARY AND MAKES IT FAR ENOUGH SOUTHEAST...BUT WILL LEAVE DRY FOR NOW. ON SATURDAY WE MIGHT HAVE POPS IN OUR NORTHERN COUNTIES ALONG AND NORTH OF THE BOUNDARY ON SATURDAY...SO INCLUDED SCHC POPS THERE. SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY WILL KEEP DRY AS THE BOUNDARY IS FORECAST TO LIFT BACK TO THE NORTH IN RESPONSE TO A DEVELOPING LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER THE NORTHERN PLAINS. MADE NO CHANGES BEYOND SUNDAY. FOR TEMPERATURES...WENT WITH A MET/MAV MOS BLEND. && .AVIATION... AREAS OF FOG...3-5SM WITH LOCALIZED LOWER VISIBILITIES...ACROSS THE REGION WILL DISSIPATE BY 13Z. SCT CU WILL DEVELOP AFTER 15Z WITH LIGHT AND VARIABLE WINDS. MAY SEE 5-6SM HZ THROUGH THE DAY. ISOLATED SHOWERS ARE NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING...BUT COVERAGE WILL BE SPARSE SO IT WILL NOT BE MENTIONED AT TAF LOCATIONS. FOR TONIGHT...MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES AND CALM WINDS WILL AGAIN LEAD TO FOG DEVELOPMENT. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KY...NONE. MO...NONE. IL...NONE. IN...NONE. && PUBLIC...JAP AVIATION...RST
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 338 AM CDT THU AUG 2 2007 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-030845- 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- 338 AM CDT THU AUG 2 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THERE IS A SMALL CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS ON SATURDAY GENERALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM DU QUOIN ILLINOIS TO ROCKPORT INDIANA. ANY STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. JAP
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 60 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:29 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A small tobacco barn was blown into the middle of a county road. Part of the roof was blown off a nearby home, allowing water to damage the interior. Several trees were blown down.
Numerous large tree limbs were blown down. A few small trees were down.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kentucky in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in Kentucky, August 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: 48107, 48108, 48109.