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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Paducah, KY

April 19, 1996Wabash County, Illinois

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 1996, 9:53 PM CDT for Wabash County, Illinois. It was in force for 52 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 19, 1996, 9:53 PM CDT (02:53 UTC)
Expired: Apr 19, 1996, 10:45 PM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Wabash County, IL

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 200 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: 1505 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 765 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 213 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 268 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.4
Supercell composite: 11.3

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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 tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Apr 19, 8:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 8:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
830 PM CDT FRI APR 19 1996

ATMOSPHERE ACROSS FA STILL VERY UNSTABLE AT 00Z AS INDICATED BY ADAP LIS
OF ABOUT MINUS 8.  SEVERE/TORNADIC STORMS OVER NORTHERN PART OF FA IN
AREA OF BEST THETA ADVECTION.  00Z SFC ANALYSIS SHOWED AXIS OF 65
DEWPOINTS JUST E OF MISS RIVER WITH COLD FRONT/DRYLINE FROM NEAR COU
TO JUST EAST OF SGF.

BASED OF ABOVE...MAIN THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH MIDNIGHT
WILL BE ALONG/NORTH OF THE OH RIVER.  AIRMASS BEGINNING TO SHOW
SLIGHT STABILIZING TREND SO STORMS SOUTH OF THE OH RIVER MAY BE
SOMEWHAT WEAKER.

BELIEVE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE MOSTLY ENDED BY MIDNIGHT FROM MVN TO
CGI...P02 LINE AND TO NEAR THE OH RIVER BY DAYBREAK.
>
AREA           LOWS         HIGHS      POPS
WKY            60-65        MID 70S     65
SEMO           NEAR 60      MID 70S     52
SIL            LOW 60S      MID 70S     72
SWIN           60-65        MID 70S     63
HOP/OWB        MID 60S      MID 70S     56

SHANKLIN

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 19, 8:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
820 PM CDT FRI APR 19 1996

TIME (CDT) ...CITY LOCATION...    STATE
           ...COUNTY LOCATION...            ...EVENT/REMARKS...

811  PM    CUTLER                    IL   MOTHBALL SIZE HAIL
04/20/95   PERRY                          REPORTED BY EMS

815  PM    SESSER                    IL   3/4 INCH HAIL
05/06/95   JEFFERSON                      8 MILES NORTH OF SESSER
     &                                     JEFFERSON COUNTY DES
WATSON

Local storm report, Apr 19, 8:48 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
845 PM CDT FRI APR 19 1996

TIME (CDT) ...CITY LOCATION...    STATE
           ...COUNTY LOCATION...            ...EVENT/REMARKS...

84^5  PM    BREWER                    MO   50 TO 55 MPH WINDS...1/2 INCH
04/19/96   PERRY                          HAIL NEAR BREWER
                                          REPORTED BY SPOTTER

WATSON

Local storm report, Apr 19, 8:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
820 PM CDT FRI APR 19 1996

TIME (CDT) ...CITY LOCATION...    STATE
           ...COUNTY LOCATION...            ...EVENT/REMARKS...

811  PM    CUTLER                    IL   MOTHBALL SIZE HAIL
04/19/95   PERRY                          REPORTED BY EMS

815  PM    SESSER                    IL   3/4 INCH HAIL
04/19/96   JEFFERSON                      8 MILES NORTH dOF SESSER
                                          JEFFERSON COUNTY DES
...CORRECTED DATE...
WATSON

Local storm report, Apr 19, 9:27 PM CDT, 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
920 PM CDT FRI APR 19 1996

TIME (CDT) ...CITY LOCATION...    STATE
           ...COUNTY LOCATION...            ...EVENT/REMARKS...

902  PM    BONNIE                    IL   STEEL SHED DAMAGED
04/19/96   JEFFERSON                      NEAR BONNIE
                                          REPORTED BY HAM NET

913  PM    MURPHYSBORO               IL   53 MPH WINDS AT MURPHYSBORO
04/19/96   JACKSON                        REPORTED BY DES

915  PM    FAIRFIELD                 IL   I INCH HAIL
04/19/96   WAYNE                          SOUTH OF FARIFIELD
                                          REPORTED BY DES

WATSON

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, 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 20, 2:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Muhlenberg	44 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

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.