Clusters of showers and weak thunderstorms formed just east of a surface low pressure center over southeast Missouri. The parent 500 mb low was also centered over Missouri.
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Clusters of showers and weak thunderstorms formed just east of a surface low pressure center over southeast Missouri. The parent 500 mb low was also centered over Missouri. An isolated funnel cloud was reported with the weak convection.
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 10, 2:07 PM CST, 3 hours 28 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 307 PM CDT Tue Jun 10 2014 .SHORT TERM...(Tonight through Thursday night) Issued at 307 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 2014 The upper low is currently located over south central Missouri, and is moving slowly northeast. It should reach the St. Louis area this evening and central Illinois by morning. It will be weakening and opening up as it does this, so hopefully, we will not have to worry about cold air funnels Wednesday. Noticed that KSGF had gotten some reports this afternoon, and would not rule out some over our southeast Missouri counties through sunset. Otherwise, the scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms over mainly northern and western portions of the area should gradually play out through early evening. With the upper trough over the region tonight, will keep chance PoPs over all but far western Missouri counties through the night. The highest PoPs tonight will be across the north. With the cold pool aloft in the region, will have to keep some mention of thunder through the night. The upper trough line and associated weak surface trough will slowly move eastward through our region through the day Wednesday. Scattered showers and thunderstorms are a good bet, with greatest coverage over the eastern half of the area. Will keep a slight chance in the far east into Wednesday evening, before finally drying the entire area out overnight into Thursday. Winds will become very weak overnight Wednesday night, so temperatures may drop to near 60 over portions of southern Illinois and southeast Missouri. Some fog development will also be possible throughout the area late Wednesday night. A short wave ridge aloft will build over the area Thursday, as a weakening cold front approaches the area. The cold front will be moving into general troughiness in the low-levels across our region, so it will likely get wiped out. Not sure if there will be enough convergence on the front or forcing aloft to really support much in the way of PoPs late Thursday afternoon in the northwest and throughout the area Thursday night. Held off Pops during the day, but spread chance Pops through the area during the night. Best chances will be over southeast Missouri. High temperatures should be trending warmer through Thursday, when near normal levels are expected. Lows will generally straddle normal levels through the period. .LONG TERM...(Friday through Tuesday) Issued at 307 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 2014 he ensemble means approach still has some weight with this extended forecast, but the weather picture seems a little less murky. By Fri afternoon, a sfc cold front should be through or nearly through the PAH forecast area. The 12Z GEM/GFS/ECMWF deterministic models all develop a closed mid level cut-off low somewhere over the Deep South, however, the GFS develops it 24 hours earlier. If the GFS scenario verifies, moisture and lift associated with the system (which eventually will have a closely positioned sfc low) may hang around our region into Fri evening and perhaps into Sat. We will go with a forecast that steadily tapers off pcpn (mostly showers) from north to south Fri, with no pcpn expected by sunset. A brief period of mid level ridging in the PAH forecast area will commence as the parent shrtwv departs the Great Lakes. This should provide our region with a dry forecast through Sat night as sfc winds gradually veer from nrly to serly. Highs Fri will be the coolest of the extended period...around 80. The coolest night will be Fri night, with lows in the upper 50s to lower 60s. By Sun, swrly return flow will begin to cause a rise in temps and dewpoints. By afternoon, there could be a few convective cells pop up here and there in the increasingly unstable atmosphere. Subtle perturbations in the wswrly mid level flow over the PAH forecast area will probably continue to trigger some isolated to scattered shower and tstm activity Sun night/Mon, with the highest PoPs in the north. Mon night/Tue look mostly dry as an expanding high aloft over the sern CONUS encroaches more and more on our region. Temps by then should be in the lower 70s for lows and upper 80s for highs, with dewpoints around 70 and heat indices about 5 deg higher. Though the lower trop will be getting soupier with time, lack of a focusing sfc boundary or sfc low should limit the potential of severe tstms through the period. && .AVIATION... Issued at 1245 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 2014 Showers will impact KEVV and KOWB in the first hour or two of the forecast. Would not rule out IFR conditions in heavy rain for a brief while, especially at KOWB. TS also possible at KOWB and KCGI. The showers that have been impacting KCGI in the last hour or two are expected to lift north of the airfield by 18Z. Isolated to scattered showers and possibly a thunderstorm or two will be possible through the afternoon and even into the evening hours. Behind the current convection, just used a VCSH to hint at the possibility. Radar VAD wind profiles indicate 15-25kts of wind just off the surface, so would not be surprised to see a few gusts where mixing is strongest this afternoon. Otherwise south winds will generally be at or below 10kts through into the evening. A light south wind is expected through the night, so not so concerned about fog, but guidance is strongly hinting at another batch of IFR or lower ceilings late tonight into early Wednesday morning. Southwest winds will pick up in the morning, and ceilings should at least lift to MVFR levels by mid-morning. Clouds may even scatter at the western sites. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IL...NONE. MO...NONE. IN...NONE. KY...NONE. && SHORT TERM...DRS LONG TERM...DB AVIATION...DRS
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 334 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 2014 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-111000- 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- 334 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...SOUTHERN ILLINOIS AND THE PURCHASE AREA OF WEST KENTUCKY THROUGH SUNSET. A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL PERSIST THROUGHOUT THE REGION THROUGH THE NIGHT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SPORADIC LIGHTNING WILL BE THE PRIMARY CONCERNS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST ACROSS THE REGION WEDNESDAY. A DECAYING COLD FRONT WILL BRING A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TO THE REGION THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY MORNING. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SPORADIC LIGHTNING WILL BE THE PRIMARY CONCERNS FOR EACH OF THESE PERIODS. A SERIES OF UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL BRING CHANCES OF THUNDERSTORMS TO THE REGION SUNDAY AND MONDAY. ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED...BUT A STRAY STORM MAY BRIEFLY PULSE UP TO NEAR SEVERE LEVELS IN THE HEAT OF THE DAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. DRS
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 500 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 2014 MOZ111-112-102230- MISSISSIPPI MO-SCOTT MO- 500 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 2014 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN SCOTT AND NORTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI UNTIL 530 PM CDT... AT 458 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A THUNDERSTORM NEAR BERTRAND...OR 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF MINER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. HAIL UP TO ONE-HALF INCH IN DIAMETER IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM... ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN. LOCATIONS THAT MAY BE IMPACTED INCLUDE... DIEHLSTADT. TORRENTIAL RAIN...WHICH MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES...IS ALSO LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE ON A FLOODED ROADWAY. SMITH
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 14 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:36 UTC.
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
A trained spotter observed a funnel cloud. This cold-air funnel cloud was associated with a shower or weak thunderstorm. These types of funnel clouds are usually very brief and rarely touch the ground.
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