Low pressure tracked slowly east across central Illinois during the day. A south to southwest flow of very warm and humid air feeding into this system contributed to locally severe storms over the Lower Ohio Valley.
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The episode as NWS PAH wrote it up.
Low pressure tracked slowly east across central Illinois during the day. A south to southwest flow of very warm and humid air feeding into this system contributed to locally severe storms over 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 23, 2:10 PM CST, 22 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 310 PM CDT SAT JUN 23 2007 .DISCUSSION... MAIN CONCERN FOR THIS FORECAST IS THE POTENTIAL FOR CONVECTION THROUGH SUNDAY. SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOP OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. ELSEWHERE...A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS DEVELOPED IN THE STL AREA IMMEDIATELY AHEAD OF THE WEAK UPPER DISTURBANCE OVER NORTHERN MISSOURI...AND ANOTHER CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS IS ADVANCING NORTHEAST OUT OF ARKANSAS. THE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CURRENTLY OVER THE AREA SHOULD CONTINUE THROUGH SUNSET...BUT AM CONCERNED THAT THE CLUSTER OVER ARKANSAS MAY HOLD TOGETHER INTO THE SOUTHWEST QUADRANT OF THE AREA WELL INTO THE EVENING. THE NORTHERN CLUSTER MAY EVENTUALL TRY TO PUSH INTO OUR NORTHERN AREAS AS WELL. WILL INCREASE POPS TO LIKELY OVER THE NORTHWEST HALF OF THE AREA...WITH LOW CHANCE POPS IN THE SOUTHERN PENNYRILE THROUGH 06Z. WILL TAPER POPS BACK TO CHANCE AREAWIDE AFTER 06Z. AS THE UPPER DISTURBANCE DRIFTS SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST...IT APPEARS THAT AT LEAST SOUTHEAST MISSOURI WILL HAVE DECENT COVERAGE OF THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN SUNDAY AFTERNOON...POSSIBLY SOMETHING LIKE THE STL AREA THIS AFTERNOON. AS A RESULT...WILL INSERT LIKELY POPS OVER SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...WITH LESSER CHANCES FURTHER NORTH AND EAST. THE 12Z GFS AND NAM AND THE 09Z SREF DATA ALL SUPPORT THE LIKELY POPS IN OUR WESTERN ZONES. DECIDED TO LINGER A SLIGHT CHANCE THROUGHOUT THE AREA SUNDAY NIGHT...BUT LITTLE MODEL SUPPORT FOR IT...GIVEN RISING HEIGHTS OVER THE REGION. LOOKING INTO MONDAY AND TUESDAY...THE MODELS ARE A BIT SLOWER TO DEVELOP THE UPPER RIDGING INTO THE AREA FROM THE EAST...WHICH ALLOWS FOR SOME QPF OUT OF THE GFS AND SREF. WITH THAT IN MIND HAVE INSERTED A SLIGHT CHANCE POP FOR MONDAY AFTERNOON. THE RIDGING SHOULD SUPPRESS ANY CONVECTION OVER THE REGION ON TUESDAY...SO WILL HAVE ONE DRY DAY IN THE FORECAST. WILL NOT INCREASE TEMPERATURES ABOVE THE LOWER 90S...AS MOST OF THE WARMING SEEMS TO BE WELL ABOVE THE BOUNDARY LAYER...AND SHOULD NOT HAVE A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON TEMPERATURES. AS THE COLUMN COOLS A BIT BY WEDNEDAY AFTERNOON...ISOLATED DIURNAL CONVECTION WILL BE POSSIBLE ONCE AGAIN. THE 12Z GFS/00Z ECMWF/HPC SOLUTIONS ALL BRING A FRONT SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE AREA THURSDAY OR THURSDAY NIGHT. THIS SHOULD BRING A DECENT CHANCE OF RAIN...BUT FRONTS DONT JUST PUSH THROUGH THE AREA THIS TIME OF YEAR. WILL THEREFORE JUST KEEP 30 POPS GOING. WILL EVEN LINGER A SLIGHT CHANCE THROUGH FRIDAY...MAINLY IN THE SOUTH WITH THE FRONT JUST SOUTH OF THE AREA...IF NOT STILL OVER THE AREA. IF THE FRONT COMES THROUGH...TEMPERATURES BEHIND IT WILL DROP DOWN TO NEAR NORMAL LEVELS...OTHERWISE LOOK FOR HIGHS IN THE ABSENCE OF WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS IN THE UPPER 80S AND LOWER 90S...AND LOWS 65 TO 70 THROUGH THE WEEK. && .AVIATION... MAIN THREAT TO AVIATION OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS WILL BE THUNDERSTORMS. THUNDER WILL BE A SIGNIFICANT POSSIBILITY AT KCGI AND KPAH TAF SITES THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS PUSHES NORTH AND EAST OUT OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS AND SOUTHERN MISSOURI. CANNOT RULE OUT SOME VICINITY THUNDER EVEN UP AT KEVV...BUT MOST OF THE ACTIVITY TO OUR SOUTHWEST WILL LIKELY GIVE UP BEFORE REACHING THAT FAR NORTHEAST. THUNDER WILL BE A GOOD POSSIBILITY THROUGHOUT THE AREA AGAIN SUNDAY MAINLY IN THE LATE MORNING THROUGH MID AFTERNOON. CLOUDS SHOULD MAINLY BE CONFINED TO CU AND CONVECTIVE DEBRIS THROUGH THE PERIOD. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KY...NONE. MO...NONE. IL...NONE. IN...NONE. && SHORT TERM...DRS LONG TERM....DRS AVIATION...SMITH
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 527 AM CDT SAT JUN 23 2007 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-241030- 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- 527 AM CDT SAT JUN 23 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TODAY AND TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY DURING THE HEAT OF THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS. THERE IS SOME RISK OF ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS. HOWEVER...MOST THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LEVELS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THERE WILL BE ANOTHER POSSIBILITY OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ON SUNDAY...AND THEN AGAIN LATE WEDNESDAY INTO THURSDAY. THOUGH ORGANIZED SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME...ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS CANNOT BE RULED OUT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 35 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:33 UTC.
3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Numerous trees were blown down along Kentucky Highway 453. One of the trees landed on a house, trapping a person inside. Another tree landed on a car. The highway was closed for over an hour. No injuries were reported.
About half of a roof was blown off a house. The roofing landed on a second house. Several trees and numerous power lines were down.
Nickel to quarter size hail was reported. The ground was nearly covered by hail in Masonville.
Wind gusts estimated near 60 MPH blew down trees.
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, 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: 31810, 31804, 31805, 31812, 31813.