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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Paducah, KY

May 5, 1996Bollinger County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1996, 12:45 PM CDT for Bollinger County, Missouri. It was in force for 60 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
May 5, 1996, 12:45 PM CDT (17:45 UTC)
Expired
May 5, 1996, 1:45 PM CDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Bollinger County, MO

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 5, 1:10 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 55Marble Hill, 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

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 277 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 1996-05-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 802 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 1996-05-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 70 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
802 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-339 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
772 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
54 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 May 5, 9:30 AM CDT, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 5, 9:30 AM CDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 5, 11:07 AM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087-100-
107>112-114-051900-

THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...VALID UNTIL 7 AM MONDAY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1108 AM CDT SUN MAY 5 1996

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND PORTIONS OF
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNTIL 4 PM...

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT ACROSS SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY...SOUTHERN ILLINOIS
...AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI.

AT 11 AM...RADAR AND SATELLITE PICTURES SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF
THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST MISSOURI...SOME OF WHICH
WERE SEVERE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING QUICKLY EAST AT 40 TO 50 MPH
AND WILL MOVE INTO THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AREA EARLY THIS
AFTERNOON. THE STORMS COULD MAKE IT ALL THE WAY ACROSS SOUTHWEST
INDIANA AND WESTERN KENTUCKY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THESE STORMS IS DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL
...BUT ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. THE STORMS WILL MOVE
QUICKLY EAST AT 40 TO 50 MPH.

THE GROUND IS STILL SATURATED FROM HEAVY RAIN EARLIER THIS WEEK
...ESPECIALLY IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA AND SOUTHERN ILLINOIS. FLASH FLOOD
WATCHES ARE IN EFFECT FOR THESE AREAS.

MONITOR LATER BROADCASTS FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.
ACTIVATION OF SPOTTERS WILL LIKELY BE REQUESTED.

YORK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 5, 1:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHAlexander, Pulaski, Union60 min
May 5, 1:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHJackson60 min
May 5, 2:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHJohnson, Massac53 min
May 5, 2:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHWilliamson53 min
May 5, 2:18 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHPulaski27 min
May 5, 2:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHPope, Saline69 min
May 5, 2:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHHardin58 min
May 5, 3:05 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHJackson4 hr
May 5, 3:05 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHFranklin, Williamson4 hr
May 5, 3:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHGallatin65 min
May 5, 3:43 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHGallatin, Hamilton, Saline, White3 hr
May 5, 2:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHFulton, Hickman60 min
May 5, 2:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHBallard, Carlisle60 min
May 5, 2:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHGraves53 min
May 5, 2:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCalloway, Livingston, Marshall69 min
May 5, 2:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCaldwell, Crittenden, Lyon, Trigg58 min
May 5, 3:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHChristian, Hopkins65 min
May 5, 3:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHMcLean, Muhlenberg58 min
May 5, 3:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHTodd58 min
May 5, 12:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCarter67 min
May 5, 12:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHWayne67 min
May 5, 12:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHRipley67 min
May 5, 12:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHButler, Stoddard60 min
May 5, 12:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCape Girardeau, Perry65 min
May 5, 1:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHMississippi, New Madrid, Scott57 min
May 5, 1:36 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHBollinger, Cape Girardeau39 min
May 5, 1:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHStoddard27 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.