Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 21, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 1996, 11:06 PM CDT for New Madrid County, Missouri. It was in force for 69 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 19, 1996, 11:06 PM CDT (04:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 1996, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County New Madrid County, MO
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:09 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 | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 11:44 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Catron, 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, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPAH 200407 TORPAH MOC143-200515- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 1106 PM CDT FRI APR 19 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI ...NEW MADRID COUNTY ...A TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO MOVE TO NEAR OR THROUGH MATTHEWS AND CATRON BY 1145 PM... AT 1104 PM STATE POLICE REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND IN BERNIE MISSOURI ON HIGHWAY 25. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 40 MPH. DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF* YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. 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, 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, 11:33 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.