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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Paducah, KY

April 28, 1989Butler County, Stoddard County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 1989, 4:52 PM CDT for Butler County, Stoddard County, Missouri. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 28, 1989, 4:52 PM CDT (21:52 UTC)
Expired
Apr 28, 1989, 5:22 PM CDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Butler County, MO, Stoddard County, MO

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 135 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Paducah/Barkley, KY at 12:00Z on 1989-04-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 11 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Paducah/Barkley, KY at 12:00Z on 1989-04-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 109 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
11 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-388 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1794 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 28, 5:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHButler, Stoddard58 min
Apr 28, 11:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHJackson32 min

Nearby

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.