A very rare phenomenon in this part of the country, a dust devil occurred in southeast Missouri.
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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 very rare phenomenon in this part of the country, a dust devil occurred in southeast Missouri.
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 Apr 8, 1:10 PM CST, 2 hours 1 minute earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 210 PM CDT SUN APR 8 2007 .DISCUSSION... LARGE POLAR VORTEX THAT HAS CHURNED OVER THE NORTHEAST CONUS FOR THE PAST FEW DAYS WILL FINALLY START MOVING SLOWLY EAST TONIGHT. IN THE MEANTIME...THE COMBINATION OF VORT ENERGY AND DECENT 1000-850MB RH DROPPING SOUTH ON THE WEST SIDE OF THIS VORTEX HAS PRODUCED A SHIELD OF STRATO-CU. CURRENTLY...THE CU FIELD EXTENDS FROM JUST NORTH OF MDH TO JUST SOUTH OF OWB. MUCH OF THIS WAS SOLAR INDUCED...SO I EXPECT THAT MUCH OF THE CLOUD COVER WILL GO AWAY AROUND SUNSET. WITH HIGH PRESSURE OVERHEAD...MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES AND CALM WINDS... TEMPERATURES TONIGHT WILL ONCE AGAIN DROP TO RECORD OR NEAR RECORD LEVELS. THE LOW THIS MORNING OF 21 AT PAH WAS NOT ONLY A RECORD FOR THE DAY...BUT ALSO A RECORD LOW FOR THE MONTH OF APRIL. EXPECT SIMILAR TEMPS OVERNIGHT TONIGHT...WITH 12 HOURS OF SUBFREEZING TEMPS IN MANY LOCATIONS. WILL KEEP FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT. SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE WILL HANG ON FOR ONE MORE DAY MONDAY. COULD BE A BIT OF A WARM UP OVER THE WESTERN HALF OF THE REGION MON AFTERNOON AS WEAK SOUTHERLY FLOW BEGINS. HOWEVER...WILL KEEP TEMPS CLOSER TO 50 IN THE EAST...CLOSER TO THE SFC HIGH. ANOTHER FROST/FREEZE WILL BE POSSIBLE MONDAY NIGHT OVER THE EAST HALF OF OUR CWA. HOWEVER...THERE IS CONSIDERABLE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MODELS WITH THE DEGREE OF WARM AIR ADVECTION DURING THE NIGHT. DUE TO UNCERTAINTY... WILL HOLD OFF ON ANY WATCH OR WARNING RIGHT NOW FOR MON NIGHT...BUT IF THE COOLER MAV NUMBERS END UP ANYWHERE CLOSE TO REALITY...WOULD BE ANOTHER HARD FREEZE...ESP OVER EASTERN AREAS. LATEST MODELS STILL TRENDING SLOWER WITH THE ARRIVAL OF PRECIP TUE. WILL GO AHEAD AND REMOVE ANY SMALL CHC MON NIGHT OVER SE MO. GOOD ISENTROPIC LIFT BEGINS TUE AFTERNOON AS WEAK SHORT WAVE SLIDES EAST IN NEARLY ZONAL H50 FLOW. WILL ALSO BE A WARM FRONT SETTING UP OVER TN...AND THE MODELS DEVELOP A LARGE SHIELD OF RAIN ALONG AND NORTH OF THIS FRONT. ALL OF THIS POINTS TO AN INCREASE IN POPS TUE AFTERNOON/EVENING (INTO THE LIKELY CATEGORY). STILL LOOKS TO BE ENOUGH INSTABILITY IN THE H85 TO H50 LAYER TO SUPPORT A MENTION OF ISOLATED THUNDER. PATTERN WILL LIKELY CONTINUE ON THE WET SIDE WED AS MAIN SFC LOW EJECTS NE FROM OK/AR...AND A MORE POTENT MID LEVEL SHORT WAVE ROTATES EAST FROM THE PLAINS. 12Z GFS BRINGS 0 TO -2 LIFTED INDICES INTO SE MO AND WRN KY WED AFTERNOON...SO WILL DEFINITELY NEED A MENTION OF THUNDERSTORMS. CANNOT RULE OUT A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS SOUTH OF THE SFC LOW TRACK. WILL BE A BREAK IN THE ACTION WED NIGHT AND THU...BUT NEXT SYSTEM STILL LOOKS ON TRACK FOR FRIDAY AND ESPECIALLY FRIDAY NIGHT. THIS LOOKS TO BE THE STRONGEST SYSTEM OF THE WEEK AS CLOSED H50 LOW EJECTS EAST INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS FRI NIGHT. THERE ARE QUESTIONS TO THE DEGREE A WARM SECTOR REGIME WILL BE ABLE TO ESTABLISH ITSELF AHEAD OF THIS SYSTEM...AND THE 00Z ECMWF NOW ACTUALLY TAKES THE SFC LOW SOUTH OF OUR AREA...WHICH WOULD TAKE THE MAIN CHC FOR SEVERE STORMS SOUTH WITH IT. HOWEVER...EVEN THO THE 12Z GFS HAS TRENDED FURTHER SOUTH WITH THE LOW THAN PREVIOUS RUNS...IT STILL TAKES THE LOW NORTH OF OUR REGION. SO...THE JURY IS STILL OUT ON THE POSSIBLE SEVERE RISK FRIDAY NIGHT. HOWEVER...SEVERE OR NOT...RAIN LOOKS LIKE A GOOD BET FRIDAY NIGHT AND EARLY SAT. && PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KY...FREEZE WARNING 9 PM LATE TONIGHT THROUGH 10 AM MONDAY MORNING ALL COUNTIES. MO...FREEZE WARNING 9 PM TONIGHT THROUGH 10 AM MONDAY MORNING ALL COUNTIES. IL...FREEZE WARNING 9 PM TONIGHT THROUGH 10 AM MONDAY MORNING ALL COUNTIES. IN...FREEZE WARNING 9 PM SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH 10 AM MONDAY MORNING ALL COUNTIES. && GM
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 315 AM CDT SUN APR 8 2007 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-090815- 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- 315 AM CDT SUN APR 8 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A HARD FREEZE WILL LIKELY OCCUR AGAIN TONIGHT...WITH SEVERAL HOURS OF TEMPERATURES BELOW 26 DEGREES POSSIBLE. MINOR FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ALONG THE LOWER WABASH RIVER. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST FLOOD STATEMENTS FOR MORE DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY NIGHT AND THEN AGAIN FRIDAY...FRIDAY NIGHT...AND SATURDAY. A FEW SEVERE STORMS CANNOT BE RULED OUT FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT. MINOR FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ALONG THE LOWER WABASH RIVER. REFER TO THE LATEST FLOOD STATEMENTS FOR MORE DETAILS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. JAP
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 dust devil. Local standard time, as filed.
A dust devil was photographed at the junction of Highways 72 and 34. A number of small objects and debris were carried in the circulation. The dust devil moved from a parking lot across a barn yard, passing over a fence and close to the barn. It then went over a hill and out of sight.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Missouri in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in Missouri, April 2007
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