Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 1996, 3:26 AM CDT for Franklin County, Illinois. It was in force for 34 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 22, 1996, 3:26 AM CDT (08:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 1996, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Franklin County, IL
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:26 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 242 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2648 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 419 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 22, 2:00 AM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 22, 2:00 AM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 200 AM CDT MON APR 22 1996 CONDITIONS STILL RIPE FOR SVR WX OVER SE MO INTO THIS MORNING. KPAH 88D VAD WIND PROFILE SHOWED 45 KT AT 2 THSND FEET INCRSG TO 60 KT AT 4 THSND FEET. 00Z UPR AIR ANALYSIS SHOWED H5 SHORTWAVE TROF LIFTING NEWD THRU OKLAHOMA...WITH 60 TO 70 KT WIND MAX IN OUN/SGF REGION. MID LVL SHORTWAVE IS FCST TO SHEAR APART AS IT REACHES THE OHIO VALLEY TODAY. IN ADDITION...BUOYANCY AND MOISTURE WILL BE LESS IMPRESSIVE ACRS OHIO VALLEY. THEREFORE...THE SVR THREAT SHOULD DIMINISH WITH TIME TODAY. STILL SOME POTENTIAL FOR TORNADIC SUPERCELLS OVR SE MO THRU THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. COLD FRONT IS FCST TO REACH PAH/CGI AREAS AROUND 00Z. A SECOND MORE SIGNIFICANT H5 SHORTWAVE IS FCST TO DIG INTO THE BASE OF THE TROF OVER OK THIS EVENING...CREATING STG UPWARD VERTICAL MOTION ALONG THE COLD FRONT TONIGHT. THIS WILL LIKELY RESULT IN A PERIOD OF MDT TO HVY RAINS DURING THE NIGHT. WILL HAVE TO KEEP AN EYE ON FLASH FLOOD POTENTIAL...ESPECIALLY IF THIS MORNINGS STORMS PRODUCE HVY RAIN. SPC QPF GUIDANCE OF 2 TO 3 INCHES SOUTH OF THE OHIO RIVER LOOKS QUITE PSBL. THERE COULD BE A BREAK IN THE PCPN THIS AFTN BETWEEN SHORTWAVES. THIS COULD ALLOW SOME AFTN BINOVC...ALLOWING TEMPS TO RISE WELL INTO 70S. CAA BEHIND FRONT TONIGHT SHOULD BE SIGNIFICANT. NGM BRINGS H8 0 ISOTHERM TO NEAR STL BY 12Z TUESDAY. ETA IS NOT AS COLD. AREA HIGHS LOWS POPS WRN KY 74 50 +/+ SE MO 75 47 +/+ SRN IL 72 47 +/+ SW IN 72 50 +/+ MY
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 22, 12:25 AM CDT, 3 hours 1 minute before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Hamilton, Wayne | 58 min |
| Apr 22, 2:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Perry | 41 min |
| Apr 22, 7:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Bollinger | 4 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 1996Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.