Hail, Todd
- When
- February 18, 12:45 AM CST
- Where
- Todd County, Guthrie
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 36.650, -87.170
Hail in Kentucky, February 18, 2009
A surface low pressure center tracked from northwest Missouri to northern Indiana. Thunderstorms developed as warm and moist air spread northward in advance of an eastward-moving cold front.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS PAH wrote it up.
A surface low pressure center tracked from northwest Missouri to northern Indiana. Thunderstorms developed as warm and moist air spread northward in advance of an eastward-moving cold front. These thunderstorms produced a couple of dime to nickel size hail events.
What forecasters said that 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 Feb 17, 10:55 PM CST, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 17, 10:55 PM CST, 1 hour 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 1055 PM CST TUE FEB 17 2009 .UPDATE... UPDATED AVIATION SECTION FOR 06Z TAFS. && .DISCUSSION... CURRENT THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY OVER ARKANSAS AND NERN OK AS OF 940 PM CST IS IN LINE WITH THE 13KM RUC 850 MB CAPE VALUES IN EXCESS OF 400 J/KG AND LIFTED INDEX VALUES GREATER THAN -3 DEGREES CELCUIS. GIVEN THE TIMING AND PROGRESSION OF THE LOW LEVEL JET NEAR 850 MB AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT...SLOWED THE ONSET OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE WFO PAH FORECAST AREA UNTIL AFTER MIDNIGHT. A SMALL COVERAGE OF THUNDERSTORMS REMAINS POSSIBLE ALONG AND ABOUT 50 MILES NORTH OF THE SERN MO/NERN AR AND WRN KY/WRN TN BORDERS BETWEEN 1030 PM AND MIDNIGHT...SO LEFT A MENTION OF THUNDER IN FOR THE LATE EVENING HOURS. I MAY STILL BE TOO LOW WITH SURFACE DEWPOINTS /BY 1-2 DEGREES/ AND WINDS /BY 3-8 KNOTS/...BUT RAISED BOTH UP IN ADVANCE OF THE APPROACHING FRONT FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE NIGHT. LATEST STORM PREDICTION CENTER MESOSCALE DISCUSSION FITS IN LINE WITH THE RUC CAPE GUIDANCE THROUGH MIDNIGHT...SO PARTS OF SERN MO...ESPECIALLY INTO THE MO BOOTHEEL AND NW TO A POPLAR BLUFF/VAN BUREN MO LINE WILL NEED TO BE MONITORED FOR SEVERE WEATHER WATCH POTENTIAL. THE POTENTIAL FOR HAIL COULD SPREAD FURTHER NEWD INTO THE REMAINDER OF THE WFO PAH FORECAST AREA AFTER MIDNIGHT...BUT WILL HAVE TO MONITOR TO SEE IF SIGNIFICANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE MOVES INTO PLACE IN TIME. && .AVIATION... INCREASING ISENTROPIC LIFT ACROSS THE SOUTHERN 1/2 OF THE FA WAS LEADING TO BREAKOUT OF SHOWERS FROM SEMO INTO WKY. THESE COULD IMPACT MAINLY KCGI/KPAH TAF SITES WITH TEMPO IFR VSBYS IN A MDT TO HVY SHRA...BUT OTHERWISE IFR-OCNL MVFR CIGS WILL PREVAIL WITH MORE WIDELY SCT -SHRA RESTRICTING VSBYS TO MVFR. BRISK SLYS WILL OCNLY GUST INTO THE L-M20S KTS. COLD FROPA WL OCCUR TOMORROW AM...ENDING PCPN AND SHIFTING WINDS TO WLYS/NWLYS...BUT PGF WILL STAY TIGHT AND GUSTS MAY REACH 30 KTS AT TIMES INTO THE PM HOURS. MVFR CIGS WILL GRADUALLY IMPROVE TO LOW VFR CIGS OVER THE COURSE OF THE DAY...WHILE VFR VSBYS SHOULD RETURN EARLIER/NAMELY W/FROPA. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KY...NONE. MO...NONE. IL...NONE. IN...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 17, 10:06 PM CST, 2 hours 39 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 1006 PM CST TUE FEB 17 2009 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-181100- 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- 1006 PM CST TUE FEB 17 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOST LIKELY AFTER MIDNIGHT ACROSS THE FOUR STATE AREA. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS 30 TO 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE. SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS MAY PRODUCE HAIL UP SEVERE LEVELS BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND 6 AM CST. CHECK THE LATEST FLOOD WARNINGS...STATEMENTS AND FORECASTS FOR RIVER FLOOD INFORMATION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY MORNING. CHECK THE LATEST FLOOD WARNINGS...STATEMENTS AND FORECASTS FOR RIVER FLOOD INFORMATION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED OVERNIGHT OVER THE QUAD STATE AREA. SMITH
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Christian
- When
- February 18, 9:30 AM CST
- Where
- Christian County, Oak Grove
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 36.670, -87.430
Penny size hail was reported along Interstate 24.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Georgia, February 18 to 19, 2009
- Tornado and Hail in Alabama, February 18, 2009
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Florida, February 18 to 19, 2009
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, February 18, 2009
- Tornado in Georgia, February 18, 2009
- Winter Weather in Pennsylvania, February 18 to 19, 2009
- Winter Weather in Massachusetts, February 18 to 19, 2009
- Hail in Kentucky, February 18, 2009
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Virginia, February 18, 2009
- Winter Weather in Wisconsin, February 18, 2009
- Heavy Snow in Maine, February 18 to 20, 2009
- Hail in Kentucky, February 18, 2009
More
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Sources
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: 151851, 151853.