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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Paducah, KY

April 19, 1996Ripley County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 1996, 9:37 PM CDT for Ripley County, Missouri. It was in force for 38 min. 4 reports 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 19, 1996, 9:37 PM CDT (02:37 UTC)
Expired: Apr 19, 1996, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Ripley County, MO

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 171 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:56 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Apr 19, 10:00 PM CDT	Tornado F2	Doniphan, MO
Apr 19, 10:00 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Doniphan, MO
Apr 19, 10:05 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Ponder, MO
Apr 19, 10:05 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Ponder, 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 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 219 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

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KPAH 200238
TORPAH
MOC181-200315-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
937 PM CDT FRI APR 19 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI
 
   ...RIPLEY COUNTY
 
A POSSIBLE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO MOVE JUST SOUTH OF DONIPHAN NEAR PRATT
BETWEEN 945 AND 950 PM.
 
AT 936 DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 35 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF POPLAR BLUFF...JUST SOUTH OF GATEWOOD. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST
AT 35 MPH.
 
IF YOU LIVE IN A HOME OR APARTMENT...SEEK SHELTER IN THE
INNERMOST PORTION OF THE BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  GET TO
A BASEMENT IF ONE IS AVAILABLE.  AVOID WINDOWS AND PROTECT YOUR
BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS WITH CUSHIONS...BLANKETS...OR PILLOWS.
 
SPODEN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
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, 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

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.