Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 1996, 6:03 PM CDT for Cape Girardeau County, Scott County, Missouri. It was in force for 57 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 28, 1996, 6:03 PM CDT (23:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 1996, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cape Girardeau County, MO, Scott County, MO
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 6:18 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Cape Girardeau, MO |
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 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 296 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
- 2427 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 378 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 404 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 28, 1:15 PM CDT, 4 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 1:15 PM CDT, 4 hours 48 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 115 PM CDT SUN APR 28 1996 DYING MCS EVIDENT ON SATELLITE CONTINUES TO PUT RAIN IN 60 MILE BAND CENTERED ALONG A LINE FROM WEST OF CGI TO EVV. ISOLATED REPORTS OF PONDING ON ROADS. WARM FRONT HAS EDGED INTO WESTERN KENTUCKY. VAD WINDS AT KPAH SHOWS 30 KT WINDS 2-4K FEET WITH 50 KT WINDS ABOVE 5K FEET. VAD WINDS INDICATE LOW LEVEL DIRECTIONAL SHEAR HAS PICKED AGAIN AFTER GOING UNIDIRECTIONAL THIS MORNING. BLOOMFIELD PROFILER HASN`T UPDATED ON THE NET SINCE 15Z. MORE SUNSHINE ... ASSOCIATED WITH WARM FRONT ...SPREADING INTO SECTIONS SOUTH OF POPLAR BLUFF MO TO MADISONVILLE KY LINE. LIKELY DESTABILIZATION OF ATMOSPHERE WITH TEMP RISE...TO MAKE FOR A CONTINUED BUSY DAY. LOOKING TO TONIGHT AND TOMMORROW...ETA HAS BEEN DOING A GOOD JOB. THIS MODEL SHOWS SURFACE LOW AND ASSOCIATED SHORT WAVE WILL MOVE INTO AREA. UPPER LEVEL WINDS HAVE BACKED FROM WEST TO SOUTHWEST (VAD WINDS/PROFILER) INDICATING APPROACHING WAVE. 12Z 500 MB ANALYSIS SHOWS THIS IN OK & TEXAS PANHANDLE. HEAVY RAIN LOOKS LIKE GOOD BET WITH HIGH LOW LEVEL RH AND 8-12 G/KG 1000 MB MIXING RATIOS. TOTAL MODEL VERTICAL MOTION OF SHOWS TWO BROAD BULLSEYES (OVERNIGHT AND THEN AGAIN TOWARD NOON ON MONDAY. AGREE WITH FLASH FLOOD WATCH...W/PERHAPS CONSIDERING ONE FOR WEST KENTUCKY. LOOKS LIKE TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT BEHIND FRONT ...SO CONSIDER 15 TO 25 MPH NW WINDS BEHIND FRONT. UP POPS TO CATEGORICA<L FOR MONDAY. AREA LOW HIGH POP WRN KY 061 066 +/8 SRN IL 058 062 +/8 SE MO 060 062 +/8 SW IN 060 065 +/8 PW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 5:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Gallatin, Saline | 6 hr |
| Apr 28, 5:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Franklin, Jackson, Williamson | 6 hr |
| Apr 28, 5:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Edwards, Wabash, White | 6 hr |
| Apr 28, 5:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Hamilton | 6 hr |
| Apr 28, 5:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Franklin, Jackson, Williamson | 6 hr |
| Apr 28, 5:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Gallatin | 6 hr |
| Apr 28, 5:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Saline | 6 hr |
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.