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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Paducah, KY

April 20, 1996New Madrid County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 20, 1996, 12:16 AM CDT for New Madrid County, Missouri. It was in force for 44 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: Apr 20, 1996, 12:16 AM CDT (05:16 UTC)
Expired: Apr 20, 1996, 1:00 AM CDT
In force: 44 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 05:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 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: 1433 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1727 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 118 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 191 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 5.9

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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 Apr 19, 8:18 PM CDT, 3 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 8:18 PM CDT, 3 hours 58 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
830 PM CDT FRI APR 19 1996

ATMOSPHERE ACROSS FA STILL VERY UNSTABLE AT 00Z AS INDICATED BY ADAP LIS
OF ABOUT MINUS 8.  SEVERE/TORNADIC STORMS OVER NORTHERN PART OF FA IN
AREA OF BEST THETA ADVECTION.  00Z SFC ANALYSIS SHOWED AXIS OF 65
DEWPOINTS JUST E OF MISS RIVER WITH COLD FRONT/DRYLINE FROM NEAR COU
TO JUST EAST OF SGF.

BASED OF ABOVE...MAIN THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH MIDNIGHT
WILL BE ALONG/NORTH OF THE OH RIVER.  AIRMASS BEGINNING TO SHOW
SLIGHT STABILIZING TREND SO STORMS SOUTH OF THE OH RIVER MAY BE
SOMEWHAT WEAKER.

BELIEVE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE MOSTLY ENDED BY MIDNIGHT FROM MVN TO
CGI...P02 LINE AND TO NEAR THE OH RIVER BY DAYBREAK.
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AREA           LOWS         HIGHS      POPS
WKY            60-65        MID 70S     65
SEMO           NEAR 60      MID 70S     52
SIL            LOW 60S      MID 70S     72
SWIN           60-65        MID 70S     63
HOP/OWB        MID 60S      MID 70S     56

SHANKLIN

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 19, 10:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1055 PM CDT FRI APR 19 1996

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

1043 PM    GALATIA                   IL   LARGE TREE BLOCKING IL RT 34
04/19/96   SALINE                         NEAR 50 MPH WINDS NORTH OF
                                          GALATIA
                                          REPORTED BY STATE POLICE

1046 PM    GALATIA/RALEIGH           IL   3/4 INCH HAIL 35-40 MPH WINDS
04/19/96   SALINE                         BETWEEN GALATIA AND RALEIGH
                                          REPORTED BY STATE POLICE

WATSON

Local storm report, Apr 19, 11:48 PM CDT, 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1145 PM CDT FRI APR 19 1996

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

950  PM    MURPHYSBORO               IL   HOUSE TRAILER TURNED OVER
04/19/96   JACKSON                        MULTIPLE TREES DOWN
                                          STRUCTURAL DAMAGE AT JACKSON
                                          SQUARE MALL
                                          REPORTED BY COUNTY SHERIFF

1000 PM    OLD DUQUOIN               IL   ROOF BLOWN OFF HOUSE
04/19/96   PERRY                          REPORTED BY DISTRICT 13

1012 PM    MULKEYTOWN                IL   TRAILER TURNED OVER
04/19/96   FRANKLIN                       INJURIES REPORTED
KEYSOR

Local storm report, Apr 19, 11:57 PM CDT, 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1155 PM CDT FRI APR 19 1996

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

810  PM    BREWER TO SERENO          MO   10 MILE PATH OF TORNADO FROM
04/19/96   PERRY                          BREWER TO SERENO
                                          40-65 HOMES DAMAGED
                                          10-15 HOMES DESTROYED
                                          REPORTED BY ALTERNATE WARNING
                                          POINT

1012 PM    COELLO AND ZEIGLER        IL   TRAILER TURNED OVER
04/19/96   FRANKLIN                       SOME STRUCTURAL DAMAGE
                                          REPORTED BY DISTRICT 13

1015 PM    VALIER                    IL   STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO SEVERAL
04/19/96   FRANKLIN                       TRAILERS
                                         REPORTED BY DISTRICT 13

KEYSOR

Local storm report, Apr 20, 12:00 AM CDT, 16 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1155 PM CDT FRI APR 19 1996

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

810  PM    BREWER TO SERENO          MO   10 MILE PATH OF TORNADO FROM
04/19/96   PERRY                          BREWER TO SERENO
                                          40-65 HOMES DAMAGED
                                          10-15 HOMES DESTROYED
                                          REPORTED BY ALTERNATE WARNING
                                          POINT

1012 PM    COELLO AND ZEIGLER        IL   TRAILER TURNED OVER
04/19/96   FRANKLIN                       SOME STRUCTURAL DAMAGE
                                          REPORTED BY DISTRICT 13

1015 PM    VALIER                    IL   STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO SEVERAL
04/19/96   FRANKLIN                       TRAILERS
                                          REPORTED BY DISTRICT 13

KEYSOR

Local storm report, Apr 20, 12:02 AM CDT, 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1205 AM CDT SAT APR 20 1996

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

0810  PM   BREWER TO SERENO          MO   10 MILE PATH OF TORNADO FROM
04/19/96   PERRY                          BREWER TO SERENO
                                          40-65 HOMES DAMAGED
                                          10-15 HOMES DESTROYED
                                          REPORTED BY ALTERNATE WARNING
                                          POINT

1012 PM    COELLO AND ZEIGLER        IL   TRAILER TURNED OVER
04/19/96   FRANKLIN                       SOME STRUCTURAL DAMAGE
                                          REPORTED BY DISTRICT 13

1015 PM    VALIER                    IL   STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO SEVERAL
04/19/96   FRANKLIN                       TRAILERS
                                          REPORTED BY DISTRICT 13

KEYSOR

Local storm report, Apr 20, 12:08 AM CDT, 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1205 AM CDT SAT APR 20 1996

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

1000  PM   NEAR DONIPHAN             MO   HWY 160 - WEST OF DONIPHAN
04/19/96   RIPLEY                         CONFIRMED TORNADO WITH TREES
                                          AND POWER LINES DOWN
                                          6 MILES NORTH OF DONIPHAN
                                          CONFIRMED TORNADO WITH
                                          STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO HOUSES
                                          REPORTED BY DONIPHAN POLICE
                                          DEPARTMENT

KEYSOR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 19, 7:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Jackson, Perry	51 min
Apr 19, 8:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Franklin	45 min
Apr 19, 8:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Jefferson	45 min
Apr 19, 8:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Hamilton, Wayne	44 min
Apr 19, 8:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Jackson	52 min
Apr 19, 9:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Jefferson	50 min
Apr 19, 9:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Edwards, Wayne, White	40 min
Apr 19, 9:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Franklin, Jackson, Williamson	47 min
Apr 19, 9:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Wabash	52 min
Apr 19, 10:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Saline, Williamson	60 min
Apr 20, 12:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Carlisle	59 min
Apr 20, 12:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Graves, Hickman	66 min
Apr 20, 12:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	McCracken	63 min
Apr 20, 12:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Livingston, Marshall	60 min
Apr 20, 12:42 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Marshall	48 min
Apr 20, 1:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Lyon	49 min
Apr 20, 1:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Calloway	58 min
Apr 20, 1:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian, Trigg	47 min
Apr 20, 2:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Muhlenberg	44 min
Apr 19, 8:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Perry	37 min
Apr 19, 8:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Perry	35 min
Apr 19, 9:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ripley	55 min
Apr 19, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Perry	47 min
Apr 19, 9:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Ripley	38 min
Apr 19, 10:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Wayne	43 min
Apr 19, 10:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Butler	37 min
Apr 19, 10:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Wayne	51 min
Apr 19, 10:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Stoddard	56 min
Apr 19, 10:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Butler, Ripley	47 min
Apr 19, 11:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	New Madrid	69 min
Apr 19, 11:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Mississippi	57 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.