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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Paducah, KY

July 26, 1993Saline County, Illinois

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Jul 26, 1993, 2:56 PM CDT for Saline County, Illinois. It was in force for 49 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 26, 1993, 2:56 PM CDT (19:56 UTC)
Expired
Jul 26, 1993, 3:45 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Saline County, IL

The nearest sounding before it

Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 77 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 1993-07-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 825 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 1993-07-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -45 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
825 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-223 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1525 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-20 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
Jul 26, 3:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHHardin62 min

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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.