An isolated severe thunderstorm event occurred during the heat of the day. A weak surface trough extended from west to east across western Kentucky, which aided the development of storms.
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The episode as NWS PAH wrote it up.
An isolated severe thunderstorm event occurred during the heat of the day. A weak surface trough extended from west to east across western Kentucky, which aided the development of storms.
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 28, 2:20 PM CST, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 320 PM CDT TUE AUG 28 2007 .DISCUSSION... MAIN FORECAST CONCERNS ARE PRECIP CHANCES WEDNESDAY INTO THURSDAY...AND THEN AGAIN ON LABOR DAY. AS FOR PRECIP CHANCES...MODELS ARE IN FAIRLY GOOD AGREEMENT ONCE AGAIN WITH OVERALL SYNOPTIC EVOLUTION THROUGH THE REST OF THE WEEK. BOTH NAM AND GFS BRING A H50 SHORT WAVE NORTH FROM MS/TN OVERNIGHT...AND A BAND OF INCREASED MOISTURE WITH IT. ALREADY SEEING THIS MOISTURE RETURN TODAY OVER SW KY IN THE FORM OF INCREASED DEW POINTS AND ISOLATED SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS. THUS..WILL GO WITH AT LEAST SCATTERED POPS TONIGHT ACROSS WRN KY. MODEL CONSENSUS STILL BRINGS A WEAK COLD FRONT DOWN INTO THE REGION BY THE END OF THE DAY WEDNESDAY AS H50 FLOWS BECOMES MORE NWLY. UNFORTUNATELY...NOT MUCH LOW LVL CONVERGENCE...MID LVL DYNAMICS OR DEEP MOISTURE AHEAD OF THE FRONT...SO ALL IN ALL...LOOKS LIKE LITTLE IF ANY DROUGHT RELIEF WITH ITS PASSAGE. THE BEST CHCS OF SHOWERS OR STORMS WED INTO THU LOOK TO BE OVER WRN KY WHERE OVERALL MOISTURE AND THETA E VALUES WILL BE HIGHEST. AFTER LINGERING SMALL CHANCE POPS THURSDAY WITH THE DEPARTING FRONTAL BOUNDARY...A RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD OVER THE SOUTHWESTERN STATES...ALLOWING NORTHWEST FLOW TO TAKE HOLD EAST OF THE PLAINS LATE IN THE WEEK. A DRY NORTHEASTERLY FLOW WILL DEVELOP AT THE SURFACE AS HIGH PRESSURE MIGRATES ACROSS THE GREAT LAKES REGION. THIS WILL MORE THAN LIKELY RESULT IN A RETURN TO DRY CONDITIONS FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. BY LABOR DAY...MEDIUM RANGE MODELS HAVE BEEN HINTING AT THE POSSIBILITY OF A MID LEVEL WEAKNESS DEVELOPING OVER THE REGION. HAVE OPTED TO GO AHEAD AND ADD SOME SMALL POPS FOR MONDAY...THO IT DOES NOT LOOK TO BE A SIGNIFICANT EVENT EVEN IF THIS WEAKNESS DOES FORM. && .AVIATION... DIURNALLY DESTABILIZED ATMOS SUPPORTIVE OF WIDELY SCT CB MAINLY PAH TAF SITE THRU MID EVENING. AFTER LOSS OF DIURNAL FUEL...SOME MID OR HIGH CLOUD DEBRIS CLOUD POSSIBLE AND AT LEAST NAM MODEL FLIRTS WITH MAINTAINING ISOLD CONVECTIVE CHC...BUT WEVE LEFT ITS MENTION OUT OF TAF SITES. THE USUAL PATCHY AM FOG IS POSSIBLE ESP CGI AS TDS CONTINUE SLOW RISE. EXPECT DIURNAL FLARE A LITTLE EARLIER WED WITH HIGH BASED CU DEVELOPING 15-18Z LEADING TO SLIGHTLY MORE CONGESTIVE CONVECTIVE PM CHANCE. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KY...NONE. MO...NONE. IL...NONE. IN...NONE. && MEFFERT
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 355 PM CDT TUE AUG 28 2007 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-291000- 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- 355 PM CDT TUE AUG 28 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE OVER MAINLY WESTERN KENTUCKY LATE THIS AFTERNOON. THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL LIKELY DIMINISH WITH THE LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING THIS EVENING... BUT MAY PICK UP AGAIN LATE TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE ENTIRE REGION WEDNESDAY... WITH BETTER CHANCES OVER SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN POSSIBLE ACROSS THE ENTIRE QUAD STATE REGION WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY. AT THIS TIME...SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 2 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:12 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Large tree limbs were blown down. Shingles were blown off. The damage area was just west of the Barkley Regional Airport and about one mile either side of U.S. Highway 60.
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