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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Paducah, KY

March 21, 1991Cape Girardeau County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 21, 1991, 4:21 PM CST for Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. It was in force for 44 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 21, 1991, 4:21 PM CST (22:21 UTC)
Expired
Mar 21, 1991, 5:05 PM CST
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Cape Girardeau County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 94 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 1991-03-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1991-03-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 362 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
978 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
362 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
384 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 21, 3:55 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHBollinger50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1991Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1991

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.