A strong storm passed through the southern Pennyrile region.
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A strong storm passed through the southern Pennyrile region.
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 Jul 27, 5:33 PM CST, 1 hour 17 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 633 PM CDT Sun Jul 27 2014 .UPDATE... Issued at 633 PM CDT SUN JUL 27 2014 Updated the aviation discussion for the 00Z TAF issuance. && .SHORT TERM...(Tonight through Tuesday night) Issued at 257 PM CDT SUN JUL 27 2014 There are a couple of surface boundaries of note this afternoon. The cold front was approaching the Wabash and Ohio Rivers, and it marks the back edge of the hot air. Unfortunately, the 70 dewpoints extend quite a way to the northwest to another more subtle wind shift extending from just north of STL to the southern tip of Lake Michigan. Along and south of the cold front, heat indices have climbed to 105 and even a bit above. With little cooling expected, have already issued a Heat Advisory til 00Z. The winds on both sides of the front have not materialized as forecast, so to keep the headline clutter down, have cancelled the Lake Wind Advisory. The thermonuclear cap appears to have effectively shut down any potential for convection with the cold front this afternoon. The latest HRRR actually tries to build storms westward along it across TN this evening, keeping our area dry. Convection along the dewpoint boundary over east central Illinois is moving east and there is no sign of it developing farther south toward our northern territories. Will continue to monitor for southwestward development, but will keep the grids dry for now. The dry, cool surface high pressure will eventually push the soup out of our region tonight, and northerly winds will be the rule into Tuesday. Had to fabricate some sky grids to account for the extensive stratocu expected to overspread the area Monday. Otherwise, there is little to discuss about the short term forecast. As for temperatures, stayed close to consensus guidance for lows tonight and Monday night, but went below guidance Tuesday night, when the best radiational cooling is expected. For highs, undercut guidance Monday with significant cloud cover at least through the afternoon. Didn't stray too far from consensus for highs on Tuesday. .LONG TERM...(Wednesday through Sunday) Issued at 257 PM CDT SUN JUL 27 2014 Above medium confidence in the extended with decreasing certainty into the weekend. Although there is still some run to run discontinuity especially with the GFS. The models are consistently decreasing pops late week and into the weekend. However the operational GFS come into much better agreement with the upper level trough late in the week. Its previous run indicated a slower cut off upper low over the lower Ohio Valley. Now the 12z Sunday run shows a progressive open low lifting out of the area quickly. This would be a reflection of the lower pops from the extended init. Also with a north wind predominant through the week with some easterly flow at times...would not expect to advect adequate moisture for a widespread rain event. However with a major upper level trough swinging through and dew points in the 60s combined with daytime heating could yield at least chance or slight chance for thunderstorms. Tweaked temps down a degree or two from what the extended init yielded mostly for collaboration purposes. && .AVIATION... Issued at 633 PM CDT SUN JUL 27 2014 In the wake of a frontal passage today, high pressure will overspread the region snuffing out the potential for precipitation at the TAF sites. Skies overnight should be mostly clear, but there could be a VFR cig in the 035-040 range between 14-22Z Monday, especially at KEVV/KOWB. At KCGI/KPAH northwest winds AOB 10 knots will continue through the period. At KEVV/KOWB northwest winds at 10-12 knots gusting up to 18 knots will subside to AOB 10 knots around sunset, then back to gusty northwest winds after 15Z. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IL...HEAT ADVISORY until 7 PM CDT this evening FOR ILZ090>094. MO...HEAT ADVISORY until 7 PM CDT this evening FOR MOZ108>112-114. IN...NONE. KY...HEAT ADVISORY until 7 PM CDT this evening FOR KYZ001>022. && SHORT TERM...DRS LONG TERM/FIRE WX...KH AVIATION...JP
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 313 PM CDT SUN JUL 27 2014 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-281000- 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- 313 PM CDT SUN JUL 27 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A HEAT ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR ALL OF WEST KENTUCKY...ADJACENT PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS AND SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI TIL 7 PM. ALTHOUGH VERY UNLIKELY AT THIS TIME...AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM OR TWO CANNOT BE COMPLETELY RULED OUT...ESPECIALLY ALONG THE TENNESSEE BORDER REGION OF WEST KENTUCKY THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. ANY STORM THAT DEVELOPS OVER WEST KENTUCKY OR SOUTHWEST INDIANA COULD BECOME SEVERE...WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL THE PRIMARY CONCERNS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY SMALL CHANCES OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST FOR PORTIONS OF THE AREA FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. AT THIS TIME...SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION CANNOT BE RULED OUT LATE THIS AFTERNOON OR EARLY THIS EVENING ACROSS WEST KENTUCKY AND SOUTHWEST INDIANA. DRS
The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 15 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:48 UTC.
1 funnel cloud, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
There were two reports of rotation and a funnel cloud, including one from a storm chaser and one from a trained spotter.
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