Isolated wind damage occurred on the south end of a well-organized mesoscale convective system that extended northeastward across the entire state of Indiana. The complex of storms propagated steadily eastward through a moist and unstable air mass.
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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.
Isolated wind damage occurred on the south end of a well-organized mesoscale convective system that extended northeastward across the entire state of Indiana. The complex of storms propagated steadily eastward through a moist and unstable air mass.
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 14, 5:36 PM CST, 9 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 636 PM CDT MON JUN 14 2010 .UPDATE... UPDATED FOR 00Z AVIATION FORECAST DISCUSSION. && .DISCUSSION... MAIN FORECAST CONCERN IS THUNDERSTORM CHANCES THROUGH WEDNESDAY AS A WEAK SURFACE COLD FRONT PUSHES SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE FA. WILL LEAN TOWARD THE SREF AND NCEP SOLUTION FOR THE PROGRESSION OF THE FRONT WHICH WOULD PUT IT NEAR THE OH RIVER BY TUESDAY EVENING AND EAST OF THE FA BY WED MORNING AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS ACROSS MO. IN THE MEANTIME...FOR TONIGHT...ONGOING THUNDERSTORMS WITHIN THE FA WILL LIKELY DIMINISH AROUND SUNSET PER PREVIOUS DAY TRENDS. MORE ONGOING CONVECTION TO THE NORTH OF THE FA MAY EVENTUALLY INFLUENCE THE NORTHERN PARTS OF THE FA. ALSO MORE ORGANIZED UPSTREAM CONVECTION OVER OK WAS MOVING INTO SW MO AND NW AR BUT MAY NOT AFFECT OUR REGION BEFORE TUESDAY. PER THE LATEST SPC OUTLOOKS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS CONTINUES THROUGH TONIGHT AND TUESDAY FOR MOST OF THE FA. WILL MAINTAIN THE HIGHEST PROBABILITIES FOR THUNDERSTORMS ON TUESDAY AS THE WEAK SURFACE FRONT PROVIDES SOME LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE IN THE ONGOING 500 MB SOUTHWEST FLOW. PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES WILL REMAIN AOA 1.75 INCHES SUPPORTING LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...SO ANY TRAINING OF STORMS COULD BE OF INCREASED CONCERN. WILL MAINTAIN A DRY FORECAST FOR ALL BUT THE S PART OF THE FA ON WED AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS EAST ACROSS THE AREA. THE RESPITE WILL BE BRIEF AS RETURN SOUTHERLY FLOW IS IN STORE FOR THU (SMALL CHANCE ACROSS PART OF SOUTHERN FA). WILL KEEP A DIURNAL SMALL CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THE EXTENDED FRI-MON TIME PERIOD. ONGOING TEMP FORECAST GENERALLY OK. HEAT INDICES SHOULD GENERALLY REMAIN BELOW LEVELS OF CONCERN FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS GIVEN SLIGHTLY LOWER DEWPOINTS AND TEMPS. && .AVIATION... WILL CARRY VICINITY THUNDER EARLY THIS EVENING AT KCGI AND KPAH BASED ON RADAR TRENDS DUE TO THE WIDELY SCATTERED NATURE OF THE CONVECTION. LINE OF STORMS MOVING ACROSS IL WARRANTS A TEMPO FOR KEVV AND KOWB FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOWER CIGS/VSBYS AND TSRA. SW WINDS UP AROUND 10 KTS...WILL BE LIGHT BY LATER THIS EVENING. SKY COVER WILL BE VFR WITH SOME CU AND CIRRUS TOMORROW WITH MORE SCT TSRA. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KY...NONE. MO...NONE. IL...NONE. IN...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 1123 AM CDT MON JUN 14 2010 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-151000- 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- 1123 AM CDT MON JUN 14 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS AREA WIDE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS THE ENTIRE AREA IN A SLIGHT RISK AREA FOR SEVERE STORMS. MARGINALLY SEVERE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN HAZARDS. VERY HEAVY RAIN IS ALSO POSSIBLE. HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL REACH 100 TO 105 ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND WESTERN KENTUCKY...AND AROUND 100 OVER THE REMAINDER OF THE AREA...INCLUDING SOUTHERN ILLINOIS AND SOUTHWEST INDIANA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN NORMAN OKLAHOMA INDICATES THAT A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE STORMS IS POSSIBLE TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM DONIPHAN MISSOURI...ONWARD TO PADUCAH AND CALHOUN KENTUCKY. THE PRIMARY WEATHER HAZARDS WITH ANY THUNDERSTORMS IN THE RISK AREA WILL BE TORRENTIAL RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING...AS WELL AS LOCALLY DAMAGING WINDS. OTHERWISE THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL DIMINISH MARKEDLY FROM NORTH TO SOUTH ON WEDNESDAY...WITH ONLY A SMALL CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WEEKEND. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP DURING THIS TIME PERIOD SHOULD REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED TODAY AND AGAIN ON TUESDAY. ANY REPORTS OF HEAVY RAIN OR FLOODING WILL BE APPRECIATED AS WELL.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 144 PM CDT MON JUN 14 2010 KYZ011-141915- LYON KY- 144 PM CDT MON JUN 14 2010 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN LYON COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY UNTIL 215 PM CDT... AT 142 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY STRONG WINDS AROUND 50 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTHWESTERN LYON COUNTY THIS STORM WAS WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY... THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN AS WELL...WHICH MAY RESULT IN STANDING WATER ON AREA ROADS. WATER LEVELS IN SMALL CREEKS...STREAMS AND IN DITCHES MAY RISE QUICKLY...ESPECIALLY IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 515 PM CDT MON JUN 14 2010 ILZ076>078-142300- WABASH IL-EDWARDS IL-WAYNE IL- 515 PM CDT MON JUN 14 2010 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN WAYNE...NORTHERN EDWARDS AND NORTHERN WABASH COUNTIES IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNTIL 600 PM CDT... AT 512 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY STRONG WINDS AROUND 50 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF CISNE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. LOCATIONS THAT MAY BE IMPACTED INCLUDE MOUNT ERIE...WEST SALEM...BONE GAP...LANCASTER...MOUNT CARMEL AND ALLENDALE. FREQUENT LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM AS WELL. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...WHICH MAY RESULT IN STANDING WATER ON AREA ROADS. WATER LEVELS IN SMALL CREEKS...STREAMS AND IN DITCHES MAY RISE QUICKLY...ESPECIALLY IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 4 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:43 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A few trees were blown down around Owensville and near Haubstadt. A large healthy tree was uprooted near County Road 450 South in southwest Gibson County. The tree completely blocked the road and took down power lines, knocking out power for 8 to 10 hours.
A power pole with a transformer on it was blown down.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Indiana in 2010Every state in 2010This day in weather historyWarnings in Indiana, June 2010
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: 230779, 230780.