Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1991, 4:59 PM CDT for Trigg County, Kentucky. It was in force for 31 min. 1 report 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
- Jun 21, 1991, 4:59 PM CDT (21:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 1991, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Trigg County, KY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 5:07 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Trigg, KY |
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
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 79 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
- 935 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 966 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPAH 212159 SVRPAH KYC221-212230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 459 PM CDT FRI JUN 21 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST KENTUCKY ...TRIGG COUNTY AT 500 PM CDT PADUCAH RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES WEST OF HOPKINSVILLE KENTUCKY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT LAKE BARKLEY AND SURROUNDING RECREATIONAL AREAS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. NNNN
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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, Jun 21, 2:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
MOZ022-023-ILZ013>015-KYZ001-212000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 215 PM CDT FRI JUN 21 1991 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE MOVING OVER THE WEST KENTUCKY AND SOUTHERN ILLINOIS... AT 215 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT PADUCAH KENTUCKY SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING OVER WEST KENTUCKY AND SOUTHERN ILLINOIS. THE STRONGEST STORMS ARE OVER SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...NEAR MARION ILLINOIS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF TORRENTIAL RAIN WHICH WILL LIKELY CAUSE SOME FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. THIS STORM MAY ALSO PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WIND...FREQUENT...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. IF YOU ARE IN THE VICINITY OF ANY OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS...STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES. REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND STAY TUNDED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS. OBMANN
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 2:54 PM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
INZ011-014-KYZ002-003-ILZ012-014-212040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN 253 PM CDT FRI JUN 21 1991 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS AT 230 PM CDT... IN INDIANA THERE WAS AN AREA OF RAINSHOWERS 25 MILE WIDE BAND FROM EVANSVILLE 30 MILES NORTH OF LOUISVILLE...NEAR SEYMOUR INDIANA. THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE IN INDIANA HAVE DISSIPATED. THE AREA OF RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN WESTERN KENTUCKY ARE DECREASING IN AREA COVERED AND INTENSITY. THE THUNDERSTORMS IN ILLINOIS AND KENTUCKY WERE IN A 20 MILE WIDE BAND FROM NEAR CLARKSVILLE TENNESSE THROUGH PADUCAH KENTUCKY TO JUST NORTH OF MOUNT VERNON IL LINOIS. THE THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH AND DECREASING IN AREA COVERAGE AND INTENSITY RAPIDLY. HOOPER
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 3:14 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
INZ011-014-KYZ002-003-ILZ012-014-212040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN 313 PM CDT FRI JUN 21 1991 ...ALL FLASH FLOOD WATCHES FOR NORTHWEST KENTUCKY AND SOUTHWEST INDIANA HAVE BEEN CANCELLED... AT 305 PM CDT...ONLY A FEW LIGHT SPRINKLES REMAINED IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA ...25 MILES EAST OF EVANSVILLE...NEAR HUNTINGBURG INDIANA. ELSEWHERE...THERE WAS A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM SOUTHERN ILLINOIS INTO WESTERN KENTUCKY. THE RAIN WAS WEST OF A LINE FROM JUST SOUTH OF HOPKINSVILLE KENTUCKY...TO MOUNT VERNON ILLINOIS AND THEN EXTENDED NORTH ALONG INTERSTATE 57. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE NEAR CABONDALE ILLINOIS AND ALONG THE KENTUCKY/ TENNESSEE BOR DER...JUST SOUTHWEST OF HOPKINSVILLE KENTUCKY. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS NOTED. SPODEN
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 3:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
MOZ022-023-ILZ013>015-KYZ001-212115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 315 PM CDT FRI JUN 21 1991 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE MOVING OVER THE WEST KENTUCKY AND SOUTHERN ILLINOIS... AT 315 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT PADUCAH KENTUCKY SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING OVER WEST KENTUCKY AND SOUTHERN ILLINOIS. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS...NEAR CARBONDALE ILLINOIS... AND OVER WEST KENTUCKY AROUND KENTUCKY LAKE AND LAKE BARKLEY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF TORRENTIAL RAIN...DUMPING ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN IN LESS THAN AN HOUR IN SOME LOCATIONS...WHICH WILL QUICKLY FLOOD LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. THESE STORMS MAY ALSO PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WIND...FREQUENT...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. IF YOU ARE IN THE BVICINITY OF ANY OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS...STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES. REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND STAY TUNDED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS. OBMANN
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 4:23 PM CDT, 36 minutes before
MOZ022-023-ILZ013>015-KYZ001-212215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 415 PM CDT FRI JUN 21 1991 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING WERE DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHEAST MISSOURI... AT 415 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT PADUCAH KENTUCKY SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE ABOUT 15 MILES WEST AND NORTHWEST OF CAPE GIRARDEAU MISSOURI. THERE WERE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...WEST KENTUCKY AND NORTHWEST TENNESSEE ALSO. THE STORMS OVER SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND SOUTHERN ILLINOIS SHOWED LITTLE MOVEMENT. THE STORMS OVER KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THE HEAVIEST STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF TORRENTIAL RAIN...DUMPING ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN IN LESS THAN AN HOUR IN SOME LOCATIONS...WHICH WILL QUICKLY FLOOD LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. THESE STORMS MAY ALSO PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WIND...FREQUENT...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. IF YOU ARE IN A FLOOD PRONE AREA...KEEP WATCH FOR RAPIDLY RISING WATER AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.b DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH WATER FLOWING ACROSS ROADWAYS...IT MAY BE DEEPER THAN YOU THINK. REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND STAY TUNDED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS. OBMANN
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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.