A squall line moved eastward across southwest Indiana, clipping northwest Kentucky with strong winds and heavy rain. These storms were associated with a 500 mb short wave trough moving east across the mid Mississippi Valley.
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The episode as NWS PAH wrote it up.
A squall line moved eastward across southwest Indiana, clipping northwest Kentucky with strong winds and heavy rain. These storms were associated with a 500 mb short wave trough moving east across the mid Mississippi Valley. Sufficient moisture and instability ahead of the line, coupled with strengthening winds aloft, supported forward propagation of the line across 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 27, 4:40 PM CST, 3 hours 14 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 540 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 2008 .UPDATE... UPDATED FORECAST FOR THE ISSUANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 623 FOR AREAS ROUGHLY NORTH OF A KCGI/KPAH/KHOP LINE TIL 03Z. PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL APPEARS TO BE ALONG AND NORTH OF KMDH/KOWB LINE...WHERE WIND FIELDS ARE MORE SUPPORTIVE OF STORM ORGANIZATION. INSTABILITY ALSO APPEARS TO BE SOMEWHAT STRONGER IN THOSE AREAS. POPS FOR THE OVERNIGHT HOURS WILL REMAIN QUITE HIGH /50 TO 60 PERCENT/...THOUGH CONVECTIVE INFLOW SHOULD BECOME ELEVATED BY THEN. RAISED QPF FOR THE EVENING HOURS TO ACCOUNT FOR INTENSE CONVECTION DEVELOPING IN NORTHERN ZONES. && .PREVIOUS DISCUSSION /ISSUED 118 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 2008/... GIVEN NEARBY MCV/POTENTIAL FOR DIURNALLY ENHANCED CONVECTION THIS EVENING...THEN OVERNIGHT LATE NIGHT CHANCE COMING IN FROM THE NORTH WITH FRONT...WL COMBINE THE PREVIOUSLY SEPARATED 6 HOUR GRIDS INTO ONE 12 HOUR GRID FOR A NET LOW LIKELY (NORTH) TO HIGH CHANCE (SOUTH) TONIGHT POP. THIS WILL THEN BLEND WELL WITH THE LIKELY CAT POPS WELL NEED FOR SATURDAY AS THE FRONT MOVES INTO A SOUPED UP WARM/JUICY/UNSTABLE ATMOS SATURDAY...WITH SLGT RISK SVR OUTLOOKED ENTIRE REGION FOR FROPA SAT PM/EVENING WHEN BEST POPS WILL EXIST. MODELS SLOWING TREND CONTINUES ON BACKSIDE WITH FRONT DEPARTURE...PREVIOUSLY LOOKED TO BE ENTIRELY GONE BY 06Z...NOW LOOKING LIKE MAYBE ITS STILL MOVING THRU WKY AND EXITING BY 12Z. WE KEPT SUN AM DRY THEN RETAINED/SLIGHTLY EXPANDED A SLGT CHANCE/20 POP FOR THE FAR NE/ERN PTNS FA WITH A LITTLE 2NDARY UPR TROF PASSAGE IN BY THEN DIURNALLY ENHANCED/STEEPENED LAPSE RATES. MIGHT TURN OUT TO BE NOTHING BUT THE NAM DOES PAINT A NARROW CONVECTIVE RIBBON OF QPF ACROSS SWIN/SEIL INTO THE ERN PENNYRILE. AFT SUN WE LOOK POST FRONTALLY COOLED AND DRIED WITH PLEASANT LATE JUNE-EARLY JULY TEMPS IN L-M80S AND U50S-L60S. AROUND MID WEEK THE LONGER RANGE MODELS SUGGEST GRADUALLY RISING HEIGHTS WILL BEGIN TO BUMP TEMPS/HUMIDITIES BACK UP BUT NOT TOO BAD STILL...PERHAPS EDGING CLOSER TO SEASONAL NORMS BY THE END OF THE WEEK. ACCOMPANYING THIS MODIFICATION WILL BE THE ATTENDANT SLGT CHANCE POPS RETURN WHICH WE HAVE GOING NOW FOR NEXT THU-FRI. MOS BLEND OF TEMPS INTO COLLAB PIC LOOKS GOOD SHORT TERM WHILE WE PREFER THE SLIGHTLY COOLER/DRIER GFS BASED MEX MOS WITH THE COLLAB PIC VERSUS THE HPC AS STAND ALONE. && .AVIATION... VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OUTSIDE OF THUNDERSTORMS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA DURING THREE SEPARATE PERIODS THROUGH SATURDAY. THE FIRST WILL BE LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH MUCH OF THE EVENING. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL TRY TO DEVELOP SOUTHEASTWARD INTO SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND SOUTHERN ILLINOIS AFTER 22Z...SOME OF THESE COULD BE STRONG WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR TORRENTIAL RAIN AND SEVERE WIND GUSTS. MOST LOCATIONS WILL BE IMPACTED FOR AN HOUR OR TWO...AS THESE STORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP SOUTH AND EAST OVER MUCH OF THE AREA THROUGH THE EVENING. FOR NOW WILL JUST HAVE CB MENTIONED IN THE TAFS. THE SECOND CHANCE IS STRADDLING DAYBREAK...AS AN EAST/WEST BAND OF ELEVATED STORMS DEVELOPS AND SLOWLY WORKS SOUTH AND EAST THROUGH THE AREA. THIS ROUND OF STORMS COULD LAST 3 TO 4 HOURS AT ANY ONE LOCATION. HEAVY RAINFALL AND LIGHTNING WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS EARLY SATURDAY. FOR NOW WILL HAVE VCTS FOR THIS EVENT. THE THIRD WILL BE JUST BEYOND THE 18Z TAF PERIOD. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY IMPACT AREAS FOR AN HOUR OR LESS SATURDAY AFTERNOON...BUT COULD BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS POSSIBLE. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KY...NONE. MO...NONE. IL...NONE. IN...NONE. && UPDATE...MY PREVIOUS...HUMPHREY/SPAETH AVIATION...SPAETH
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 557 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 2008 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-281100- 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- 557 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THIS EVENING...MAINLY WITHIN A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT INCLUDES MOST PLACES NORTH OF A CAPE GIRARDEAU MISSOURI TO MADISONVILLE KENTUCKY LINE. WHILE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE PRIMARY HAZARDS...AN ISOLATED TORNADO CANNOT BE RULED OUT. AFTER MIDNIGHT...THE POTENTIAL FOR DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL WILL DECREASE SIGNIFICANTLY. THE COVERAGE OF THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD REMAIN QUITE HIGH...WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK THAT SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...ESPECIALLY SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS A COLD FRONT MOVES ACROSS THE REGION. THE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL...IN ADDITION TO LOCALIZED FLOODING FROM VERY HEAVY RAIN. FREQUENT CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING WILL ALSO BE A HAZARD. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...AND THE PENNYRILE REGION OF WESTERN KENTUCKY...EAST OF THE LAKES. HOWEVER WIDESPREAD SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION HAS BEEN REQUESTED THIS EVENING IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AREA. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED ACROSS THE REGION ON SATURDAY...MAINLY IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. MY
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
735 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
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..REMARKS..
0625 PM TSTM WND DMG 2 S CARBONDALE 37.70N 89.22W
06/27/2008 JACKSON IL EMERGENCY MNGR
TREES DOWN...MOSTLY SOUTH OF DOWNTOWN CARBONDALE. SEVERAL
SMALL TREES DOWN ON SIU CAMPUS. COUPLE OF ROADS BLOCKED 2
TO 4 MILES SOUTH OF CARBONDALE...INCLUDING OLD HIGHWAY
51.
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MYPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
751 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 2008
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0749 PM FUNNEL CLOUD ST. PHILLIP 37.99N 87.72W
06/27/2008 POSEY IN TRAINED SPOTTER
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SMITTYPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
753 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 2008
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0753 PM FUNNEL CLOUD 1 E PETERSBURG 38.49N 87.26W
06/27/2008 PIKE IN TRAINED SPOTTER
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SMITTYPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
801 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
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..REMARKS..
0800 PM TSTM WND GST EVANSVILLE 37.98N 87.54W
06/27/2008 E60 MPH VANDERBURGH IN TRAINED SPOTTER
ROLLING SHELF CLOUD ASSOCIATED WITH STORM.
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SMITTYPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
809 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
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0809 PM TSTM WND GST EVANSVILLE 37.98N 87.54W
06/27/2008 E50 MPH VANDERBURGH IN TRAINED SPOTTER
STRONG WINDS OCCURRING IN THE SUBDIVISION OF ANGLE
MOUNDS.
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SMITTYPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
816 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
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0750 PM TSTM WND GST EVANSVILLE 37.98N 87.54W
06/27/2008 E60.00 MPH VANDERBURGH IN TRAINED SPOTTER
4-5 INCHES OF WATER OVER RTE 62 AT INTERSECTION WITH
US-41.
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ADThe Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 76 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:54 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A large billboard was blown down along Highway 81.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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