Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 1988
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Jul 25, 1988, 6:40 PM CDT for Cape Girardeau County, Scott County, Missouri. It was in force for 20 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 25, 1988, 6:40 PM CDT (23:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 1988, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 20 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cape Girardeau County, MO, Scott County, MO
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 6:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Scott, MO | |
| Jul 25, 7:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Scott, MO |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Salem-Leckrone, IL (KSLO), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 171 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1238 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 931 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPAH 252341 TORPAH MOC031-201-260000- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 640 PM CDT MON JUL 25 1988 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...SOUTHERN CAPE GIRADREAU AND NORTHERN SCOTT AT 635 PM...A TORNDAO WAS SIGHTED 5 MILES WEST OF CAPE GIRADEAU MISSOURI BY AN AIRCRAFT. NUMEROUS REPORTS OF FUNNEL CLOUDS HAVE ALSO BEEN RECIEVDED FROM THIS AREA. RADAR INDICATED THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM ABOUT MID-WAY BETWEEN DELTA AND CAPE GIRARDEAU MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. PERSONS IN DELTA AND CAPE GIRARDEAU MISSOURI SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. GO TO A BASEMENT SHELTER IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A CENTRAL INTERIOR ROOM OR CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR STURDY FURNITURE. COVER YOUR BODY WITH BLANKETS...PILLOWS OR CUSHIONS. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING. SHANKLIN
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 3:35 PM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN 330 PM CDT MON JUL 25 1988 AT 325 PM CDT THERE WERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA...SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS AND JUST MOVING INTO PARTS OF NORTHWEST KENTUCKY. THE LEADING EDGE OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALONG THE OHIO RIVER FROM JUST WEST OF LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY TO NEAR EVANSVILLE THEN INTO SOUTHERN ILLINOIS TO NEAR MT VERNON. TORRENTIAL RAINS WERE REPORTED IN MT CARMEL ILLINOIS IN WABASH COUNTY CAUSING SOME URBAN FLOODING OF STREETS. ALSO SEVERE AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING HAVE ALSO BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS. AS THEY MOVE THROUGH THE TRI STATE AREA VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL CAUSE SOME FLOODING AND RESIDENTS SHOULD TAKE PRECAUTIONS AGAINST LIGHTNING BY STAYING INDOORS AND DO NOT USE ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES OR TELEPHONES DURING THE STORMS. . THE STORM AREA WAS MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND SPREAD THROUGH NORTHWEST KENTUCKY DUfRING THE EVENING. BLOCK
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 3:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 344 PM CDT MON JUL 25 1988 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CDT FOR A LARGE PART OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MISSOURI AND MOST OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS... AT 335 PM CDT NATIONAL WETAHER SERVICE RADAR AT PADUCAH KENTUCKY INDICATED SEVERAL DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR ST LOUIS SOUTHEAST TO EVANSVILLE INDIANA. ONE VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF MT VERNON ILLINOIS. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST NORTH OF MCLEANSBORO ILLINOIS. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTH AT 30 MPH. REMEMBER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. IF THREATNING WEATHER APPROACHES YOU SHOULD QUICKLY MOVE TO A SAFE INDOOR SHELTER. SHANKLIN
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 4:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 455 PM CDT MON JUL 25 1988 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...SOUTHERN ILLINOIS AND WESTERN KENTUCKY... AT 450 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT PADUCAH KENTUCKY INDICATED SEVERAL DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR ST LOUIS SOUTHEAST THROUGH BENTON ILLINOIS TO NEAR MADISONVILLE KY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS 22 MILES NORTHWEST OF MURPHYBORO ILLINOIS JUST NORTH OF THE PERRY...JACKSON COUNTY LINE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTH AT 30 MPH. REMEMBER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN AREP POSSIBLE IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. IF THREATNING WEATHER APPROACHES YOU SHOULD QUICKLY MOVE TO A SAFE INDOOR SHELTER. SHANKLIN
Local storm report, Jul 25, 5:44 PM CDT, 56 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN
545 PM CDT MON JUL 25 1988
STORM REPORT FOR SEVERE WEATHER EVENT JUL 25 1988
440 PM CDT....NEAR MORGANFIELD...UNION COUNTY KENTUCKY...LARGE LIMBS
AND POWER LINES DOWN. LIMBS BLOCKING ROAD. REPORTED
BY MORGANFIELD POLICE DEPARTMENT.
442 PM CDT....SLAUGHTERS...WEBSTER COUNTY KENTUCKY...LARGE LIMBS AND
POWER LINES DOWN. REPORTED BY SPOTTERS.
500 PM CDT....OWENSBORO...DAVIESS COUNTY KENTUCKY...NUMEROUS TREES DOWN
INCLUDING ONE DAMAGING A HOUSE. REPORTED BY OWENSBORO
POLICE DEPARTMENT.
RUNNELSSpecial weather statement, Jul 25, 5:45 PM CDT, 55 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN 530 PM CDT MON JUL 25 1988 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTILL 10 PM FOR THE SOUTH END OF ILLINOIS AND THE WEST ON THIRD OF KENTUCKY. AT 530 PM CDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS COVERED MOST OF THE SOUTH END OF INDIANA...THE SOUTH END OF ILLINOIS AND THE PART OF WEST KENTUCKY... BETWEEN THE WESTERN KENTUCKY PARKWAY AND THE OHIO RIVER. THE STRONGEST STORMS IN THIS AREA HAVE BEEN DUMPING AROUND 2 INCHES OF RAIN IN LESS THAN ONE HOUR AS THEY PASS BY. EVANSVILLE INDIANA HAD 2.05 INCHES OF RAIN IN 40 MINUITS. THE LARGEST GROUP OF STRONG STORMS WERE 30 TO 60 MILES SOUTHEST OF AND EAST OF EVANSVILLE INDIANA...BETWEEN MORGANTOWN KENTUCKY AND TELL CITY INDIANA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. BETWEEN 430 AND 530 PM CDT THE AREA COVERED DID NOT CHANGE AND THE INTENSITY REMAINED DANGEROUSLY STRONG. BURNS
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 5:48 PM CDT, 52 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN 530 PM CDT MON JUL 25 1988 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTILL 10 PM FOR THE SOUTH END OF ILLINOIS AND THE WEST ONE THIRD OF KENTUCKY. AT 530 PM CDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS COVERED MOST OF THE SOUTH END OF INDIANA...THE SOUTH END OF ILLINOIS AND THE PART OF WEST KENTUCKY... BETWEEN THE WESTERN KENTUCKY PARKWAY AND THE OHIO RIVER. THE STRONGEST STORMS IN THIS AREA HAVE BEEN DUMPING AROUND 2 INCHES OF RAIN IN LESS THAN ONE HOUR AS THEY PASS BY. EVANSVILLE INDIANA HAD 2.05 INCHES OF RAIN IN 40 MINUITS. THE LARGEST GROUP OF STRONG STORMS WERE 30 TO 60 MILES SOUTHEAST OF AND EAST OF EVANSVILLE INDIANA...BETWEEN MORGANTOWN KENTUCKY AND TELL CITY INDIANA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. . BETWEEN 430 AND 530 PM CDT THE AREA COVERED DID NOT CHANGE AND THE INTENSITY REMAINED DANGEROUSLY STRONG. BURNS
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.