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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Paducah, KY

April 20, 1996Muhlenberg County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 20, 1996, 2:01 AM CDT for Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. It was in force for 44 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: Apr 20, 1996, 2:01 AM CDT (07:01 UTC)
Expired: Apr 20, 1996, 2:45 AM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Muhlenberg County, KY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 20, 2:20 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville, KY

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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 130 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: 689 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -183 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 967 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 163 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 275 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.0

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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 Apr 20, 1:59 AM CDT, 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 20, 1:59 AM CDT, 2 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 20, 12:00 AM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute 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, 1 hour 59 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, 1 hour 53 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

Local storm report, Apr 20, 12:44 AM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 20, 2:01 AM CDT, 0 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
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 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
Apr 20, 12:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	New Madrid	44 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.