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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 237, NWS Paducah, KY

October 22, 1996Henderson County, Union County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 22, 1996, 3:34 PM CDT for Henderson County, Union County, Kentucky. It was in force for 41 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 22, 1996, 3:34 PM CDT (20:34 UTC)
Expired
Oct 22, 1996, 4:15 PM CDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Henderson County, KY, Union County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 279 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, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 1996-10-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 1996-10-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 104 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
488 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
123 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
Oct 22, 2:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHPulaski26 min
Oct 22, 2:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHJohnson, Massac, Pope33 min
Oct 22, 2:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHFranklin, Williamson32 min
Oct 22, 2:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHGallatin, Hamilton, Saline42 min
Oct 22, 2:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHHardin, Pope42 min
Oct 22, 2:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHJefferson, Wayne35 min
Oct 22, 3:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHEdwards, Wayne, White41 min
Oct 22, 3:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHWabash41 min
Oct 22, 2:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHBallard, Carlisle, Hickman26 min
Oct 22, 2:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCalloway, Graves, Marshall33 min
Oct 22, 2:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHMcCracken33 min
Oct 22, 2:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCalloway, Marshall42 min
Oct 22, 2:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCaldwell, Crittenden, Livingston, Lyon42 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.