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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Paducah, KY

January 18, 1996New Madrid County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 18, 1996, 8:17 AM CST for New Madrid County, Missouri. It was in force for 58 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: Jan 18, 1996, 8:17 AM CST (14:17 UTC)
Expired: Jan 18, 1996, 9:15 AM CST
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Whole counties

County New Madrid County, MO

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jan 18, 8:39 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Risco, MO
Jan 18, 8:45 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Matthews, 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 198 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 9 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 578 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 75 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -370 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -143 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.

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.

NWS Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jan 18, 2:00 AM CST, 6 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 18, 2:00 AM CST, 6 hours 17 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 18, 9:14 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jackson, Union	46 min
Jan 18, 9:14 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Alexander, Pulaski	46 min
Jan 18, 9:37 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Johnson, Massac, Williamson	68 min
Jan 18, 9:37 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Franklin, Perry	68 min
Jan 18, 9:56 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Pope, Saline	49 min
Jan 18, 10:08 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Hardin	67 min
Jan 18, 8:45 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Fulton	45 min
Jan 18, 9:22 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Hickman	38 min
Jan 18, 9:22 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ballard, Carlisle, Hickman	53 min
Jan 18, 9:26 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Graves, McCracken	49 min
Jan 18, 9:56 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Calloway, Livingston, Marshall	49 min
Jan 18, 10:08 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Crittenden, Lyon, Trigg	67 min
Jan 18, 8:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Stoddard	58 min
Jan 18, 8:40 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Perry	50 min
Jan 18, 9:04 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Cape Girardeau, Mississippi, Scott	41 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1996 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.