Thunderstorms occured along a cold front as it moved southeast across southern Illinois.
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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.
Thunderstorms occured along a cold front as it moved southeast across southern Illinois.
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 9, 2:49 AM CST, 2 hours 41 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 349 AM CDT WED JUN 9 2010 .DISCUSSION... MAIN CONCERNS ARE ON AND OFF PRECIP CHANCES INTO THE WEEKEND. ONGOING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL PERSIST ACROSS THE EASTERN TWO THIRDS OF THE QUAD STATE REGION THROUGH DAYBREAK. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OFF TO OUR NORTH AND NORTHWEST...ASSOCIATED WITH THE APPROACHING COLD FRONT...WILL PUSH SOUTHEAST THROUGH MUCH OF OUR REGION THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS. GFS...NAM...SREF AND ECMWF ARE ALL IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH THIS SCENARIO. GFS IS THE SLOWEST AND LEAST AGGRESSIVE WITH THE SOUTHWARD PROGRESSION OF THE FRONT THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO TONIGHT...KEEPING THE HIGHEST AND MOST WIDESPREAD QPF ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST HALF OF THE QUAD STATE. ALL MODELS KEEP SOME LIGHT QPF ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON...THEN ALL BUT GFS DRY THINGS OUT THIS EVENING. AFTER 06Z...ECMWF DOES REGENERATE SOME PRECIP ACROSS SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE AREA. WITH COLD FRONT AND MOISTURE LINGERING ACROSS OUR SOUTHERN COUNTIES...WENT WITH SLIGHT CHANCE POPS FOR THE SOUTHERN HALF OF OUR REGION TONIGHT. ON THURSDAY...MODELS COME BACK TO SOME BETTER AGREEMENT AS THE FRONT LIFTS BACK NORTH AS A WARM FRONT AND ALL GENERATE SOME QPF. WITH BEST MOISTURE ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST HALF OF THE AREA...WENT WITH CHANCE POPS SOUTHWEST TO SLIGHT CHANCE POPS NORTHEAST. TENTATIVELY WENT WITH A DRY FORECAST THURSDAY NIGHT FOR NOW...THOUGH GFS ALONE DOES HINT AT A LITTLE QPF. ON FRIDAY...MODELS BACK ON A SIMILAR PAGE AS AN UPPER LOW/TROF PASSES OVER THE REGION. WENT WITH CHANCE POPS ACROSS THE ENTIRE FORECAST AREA...WITH A LITTLE MORE EMPHASIS ACROSS OUR NORTHWEST COUNTIES CLOSER TO THE TRACK OF THE LOW. FRIDAY NIGHT...GFS...SREF AND ECMWF ALL CONTINUE TO GENERATE QPF AS THE TROF CONTINUES TO MOVE ACROSS THE AREA. ECMWF AND GFS PUT BEST FOCUS ACROSS NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE FA...SO WENT WITH CHANCE POPS NORTH TO SLIGHT CHANCE SOUTH...TO A DRY FORECAST ACROSS OUR FAR SOUTHWEST COUNTIES. LINGERED SOME SLIGHT CHANCE POPS FOR OUR EASTERN COUNTIES INTO SATURDAY. MADE NO CHANGES BEYOND SATURDAY. IN THE NEAR TERM...WENT CLOSE TO COOLER MET FOR HIGHS TODAY AND THURSDAY...AND A COMPROMISE OF THE MAV/MET VALUES FOR LOWS AND FOR HIGHS ON FRIDAY. ONLY MADE MINOR TWEAKS BEYOND FRIDAY BASED A FORECAST ALREADY IN DECENT AGREEMENT WITH LATEST MEX AND FOR BLENDING PURPOSES. && .AVIATION... CONDITIONS WILL PREDOMINANTLY BE VFR THROUGH THE FORECAST PERIOD. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHING FROM ILLINOIS TO KANSAS LINGER INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS WEDNESDAY. MVFR CEILINGS AND/OR VISIBILITIES MAY ACCOMPANY THE STORMS. A COLD FRONT WILL PUSH MOST OF THIS ACTIVITY SOUTH OF KEVV AND KOWB DURING THE MORNING. THE FRONT IS EXPECTED TO STALL OUT...SO REMNANT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE AT KCGI AND KPAH INTO THE AFTERNOON. A RETURN TO MAINLY DRY WEATHER IS EXPECTED WEDNESDAY EVENING. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KY...NONE. MO...NONE. IL...NONE. IN...NONE. && RST/DRS
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 415 AM CDT WED JUN 9 2010 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-101000- 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- 415 AM CDT WED JUN 9 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY INTO TONIGHT...MAINLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS...ACROSS ALL OF WEST KENTUCKY AND ADJACENT AREAS OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...SOUTHERN ILLINOIS AND SOUTHWEST INDIANA. THE MAIN CONCERNS WITH ANY SEVERE STORMS WILL BE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND HAIL. A FEW AREAS MAY SEE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WITH STRONGER STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THURSDAY...FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY...THEN AGAIN SUNDAY INTO MONDAY. THOUGH WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED...A FEW STORMS BRIEFLY REACHING SEVERE LEVELS IS NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION...MAINLY DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL WITH STRONGER STORMS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS WEST KENTUCKY...ADJACENT AREAS OF SOUTHWEST INDIANA...AND EXTREME PORTIONS OF BOTH SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND SOUTHERN ILLINOIS. RST
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 83 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 11:32 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A 32-year-old woman was struck by lightning in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart store. The main injury was to her leg, which may have sustained muscle damage. She was knocked to the ground when lightning struck the shopping cart she was holding. She lost some hair.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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