Isolated to scattered thunderstorms developed during the heat of the day in a weak southwest wind flow on the back side of high pressure. A couple of these storms produced strong gusty winds that took down trees.
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Isolated to scattered thunderstorms developed during the heat of the day in a weak southwest wind flow on the back side of high pressure. A couple of these storms produced strong gusty winds that took down trees.
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 Sep 11, 1:27 PM CST, 18 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 227 PM CDT Wed Sep 11 2013 .SHORT TERM...(This Evening through Friday night) ISSUED AT 225 PM CDT WED SEP 11 2013 Scattered showers and thunderstorms over parts of the quad state should dissipate by sunset. The activity is showing little to no movement so locally heavy rainfall will be the biggest threat with the stronger showers/storms. A cold front is forecast to drop southeast across the lower Ohio valley on Thursday. Models not in the best agreement on probability of precipitation with this feature. The latest GFS is showing single digit POPS for all except the northeast sections of our CWA while the other models seem to be a bit more impressed with precipitation chances, albeit nothing too extravagant. With decent deep layer moisture, forcing along the boundary, and plenty of instability, tended to lean more toward the wetter solutions. Forecast soundings showing the inverted-V signature, so some of the stronger storms could produce 40-50 mph gusts, especially over the eastern sections of our CWA. Precipitation associated with the frontal passage may linger over the far southern sections of the CWA into the early evening hours Thursday before ending. In the wake of the frontal passage, high pressure at the surface and northwest flow aloft will usher a much milder airmass into the region starting Thursday night that will produce well below normal temperatures and dewpoints through the weekend and into early next week. .LONG TERM...(Saturday through Wednesday) ISSUED AT 225 PM CDT WED SEP 11 2013 Low confidence in precip chcs late Sunday into Monday due to diverging model solutions. Medium confidence in dry southern portions. the latest model runs indicate uncertainty in their solutions. They do agree on surface high rapidly moving off the east coast. However they are considerably different with available moisture and upper level features and strengths. Forecast sounding show much drier gfs solution at least in the lower levels. It also flattens out the 500mb high allowing a perturbation in the flow to bring some precip into the area. In contrast the ecmwf does not flatten out the high but allows a small area of precip to penetrate the high. The meteogram for southern portions of the area show both the 6z and 12z wed GFS runs dry through the extended. One last thing the models have not been doing very well with the winds with this system...advertising very low winds until the last couple of runs. For our temps and dew points to drop the magnitude we are advertising in the grids it will take a significant wind velocity to usher that much change. Thus tweaked winds up a bit...as did the last couple shifts. && .AVIATION... ISSUED AT 225 PM CDT WED SEP 11 2013 With the exception of MVFR vsbys at KCGI/KPAH between 07-13ZZ, VFR conditions expected at all sites through the period. Light southwest winds will go calm after 01Z, then pick up out of the west to northwest aob 10 kts after 14Z. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IL...NONE. MO...NONE. IN...NONE. KY...NONE. && SHORT TERM/AVIATION...JP LONG TERM/FIRE WX...KH
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 346 AM CDT WED SEP 11 2013 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-121000- 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- 346 AM CDT WED SEP 11 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER MUCH OF THE AREA TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE STORMS WILL BE NEARLY STATIONARY...SO LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING WILL BE THE PRIMARY CONCERNS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST THROUGHOUT THE AREA THURSDAY...AS A COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE REGION. STORMS WILL MOVE SLOWLY SOUTH SOUTHEAST. THE PRIMARY CONCERNS WILL ONCE AGAIN BE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING. WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY. AT THIS TIME...SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. DRS
The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 15 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:43 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Several trees and limbs were blown down.
Several trees were blown down along Route 139 through Cadiz and vicinity. A healthy one-foot diameter tree limb was down.
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