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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Paducah, KY

March 5, 1996Jackson County, Illinois

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 1996, 6:07 PM CST for Jackson County, Illinois. It was in force for 38 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: Mar 5, 1996, 6:07 PM CST (00:07 UTC)
Expired: Mar 5, 1996, 6:45 PM CST
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Jackson County, IL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 5, 6:30 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Carbondale, IL

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

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 272 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 461 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 237 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 Mar 5, 1:12 PM CST, 4 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 5, 1:12 PM CST, 4 hours 55 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
115 PM CST TUE MAR 5 1996

THREATS OF SVR WX AND FLOODING ARE HIGHEST CONCERNS FOR TONIGHT.
17Z MAPS DATA SHOWED A SFC WAVE OVR CNTRL MO NEAR COU...WITH A
FRONTAL BNDRY EXTENDING EWD ACRS STL TO EAST CNTRL IL. TSTMS ALG
FRONT HAVE BEEN QUITE STG/PSBLY SVR IN STL VCNTY. DECENT SLY LOW
LVL FLOW FROM 25 TO 35 KTS JUST ABV THE BNDRY LYR CONTINUES FEEDING
MOIST AND UNSTBL AIR INTO THE FRONTAL BNDRY. PARTIAL CLRG HAS BEEN
SLOWLY WORKING EWD ACRS SRN MO...WARMING SFC TEMPS INTO LWR 70S.
MODIFIED SGF RAOB HAS CAPES 2000-3000 J/KG.

A MID LVL IMPULSE AND THERMAL TROF PROGGED TO BE OVR OK AT 00Z SHOULD
MOVE ACRS THE FA OVRNITE. NGM/ETA PROG H5 TEMPS TO COOL TO NEAR M20
BY 12Z WED ACRS THE FA. DESPITE LOSS OF SFC HEATING...AIR MASS SHOULD
REMAIN UNSTBL OVRNITE DUE TO DIFFERENTIAL TEMP ADVECTION. NGM IS MORE
UNSTBL TONITE...ESP FOR SW INDIANA...WHERE IT PROGS LI NEAR MINUS 6
LATE TONITE. BOTH MODELS AGREE AIR MASS WL BE MDTLY UNSTBL OVR SE MO
LATE TONITE...WITH LI NEAR MINUS 4. AS FRONT APPROACHES AND MID LVL
SUPPORT INCREASES THIS EVENING...SO SHOULD CHC FOR SVR. PRECIPITABLE
WATER AND K INDEX FCSTS SHOW PLENTY OF MOISTURE THROUGH TONIGHT...
ENHANCING HVY RAINFALL POTENTIAL. WATER VAPOR LOOP SHOWS DRY PUNCH
INTO WRN KS ATTM. MODELS INDICATE THIS DRY PUNCH SHOULD REACH THE FA
AROUND 12Z WED...ENDING THREAT OF EXCESSIVE RAINFALL.

WITH MID LVL DRYING AND PASSAGE OF FRONT WEDNESDAY...SVR WX THREAT
AND HVY RAINFALL SHOULD END EARLY ACRS SE MO...SRN IL AND SW INDIANA.
NGM IS SLOWER THAN ETA...MEANING A LONGER PD OF HVY RAIN FOR WRN KY
WEDNESDAY. WOULD BE INCLINED TO SIDE WITH THE ETA/AVN...WHICH BRING
FRONT THRU PAH BY NOON.

STN LOW/HIGH POP
PAH 055/063  97
CGI 055/062  97
EVV 053/057  +8

MY

In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 5, 3:42 PM CST, 2 hours 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY                                             340 PM CST TUE MAR 5 1996

TIME (CDT) ...CITY LOCATION...    STATE
           ...COUNTY LOCATION...            ...EVENT/REMARKS...
                                                                                0340 PM    WEST FRANKFORT            IL   0.5 INCH HAIL                         03/05/96   FRANKLIN                       REPORT FROM FRANKLIN CO EOC

Local storm report, Mar 5, 5:01 PM CST, 1 hour 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
500 PM CST TUE MAR 5 1996

TIME (CDT) ...CITY LOCATION...    STATE
           ...COUNTY LOCATION...            ...EVENT/REMARKS...

0458 PM    7NW STRINGTOWN           MO     3 INCH DIAMETER HAIL
03/05/96   BUTLER

0458 PM    7NW STRINGTOWN           MO     NUMEROUS TREES DOWN
03/05/96   BUTLER                          ALONG HWY 60

NOLES

Local storm report, Mar 5, 5:52 PM CST, 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
555 PM CST TUE MAR 5 1996

TIME (CDT) ...CITY LOCATION...    STATE
           ...COUNTY LOCATION...            ...EVENT/REMARKS...

050:5 PM    7N STRINGTOWN            MO     TRESS/POWER LINES DOWN
03/05/96   BUTLER

FIELDS

Local storm report, Mar 5, 5:55 PM CST, 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
556 PM CST TUE MAR 5 1996

TIME (CDT) ...CITY LOCATION...    STATE
           ...COUNTY LOCATION...            ...EVENT/REMARKS...

052>0 PM    POPLAR BLUFF             MO      FUNNEL CLOUD
03/05/96   BUTLER

FIELDS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 5, 8:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Massac, Pope	40 min
Mar 5, 9:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Alexander	34 min
Mar 5, 8:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ballard	52 min
Mar 5, 8:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	McCracken	37 min
Mar 5, 10:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Muhlenberg	39 min
Mar 5, 11:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Fulton	52 min
Mar 5, 6:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Carter	45 min
Mar 5, 6:19 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Scott	41 min
Mar 5, 6:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Stoddard, Wayne	51 min
Mar 5, 7:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Stoddard	42 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.