Tornado Warning 4, NWS Paducah, KY

Issued

Apr 19, 1996, 7:24 PM CDT (00:24 UTC)

Expired

Apr 19, 1996, 8:15 PM CDT

In force

51 min

Issued by

NWS Paducah, KY

Area

Whole counties

Counties Jackson County, IL, Perry County, IL

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

000 
TTAA00 KPAH 200025
TORPAH
ILC077-145-200115-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
724 PM CDT FRI APR 19 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTH ILLINOIS
 
   ...NORTHERN JACKSON COUNTY...AND PERRY COUNTY
 
A POSSIBLE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH OR NEAR CUTLER ILLINOIS
BETWEEN 735 AND 745 PM.
 
AT 721 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO DEVELOPING 20
MILES NORTHWEST OF MARION...NEAR ELLIS GROVE.
 
MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 40 MPH.  HAIL TO GOLF BALL SIZE IS ALSO
LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.
 
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

NWS Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Apr 19, 12:22 PM CDT, 7 hours 2 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1215 PM CDT FRI APR 19 1996

16Z SFC MAP HAD LOW PRESSURE JUST WEST OF MKC WITH WRM FRONT INTO CNTRL
MO AND NE AR.  DEW POINTS WELL ABOVE 60F ACROSS CWA.  VIS 1KM LOOP FROM
NSAT SHOWS RAPID CLEARING OVER ARKANSAS...WITH BACK EDGE OF LOW CLOUDS
RACING NE FROM MO BOOTHEEL / WRN TN & NE AR.  CONWAY MO PROFILER SHOWS
WINDS UP TO 50KT AT 2 1/2 KM (8K FT) AS NOSE OF 7H SW JET MAY BE RIPPING
INTO WRN MO.  ADAP AT 16Z HAD CAP OVER 1 TO 2.5 DEG C OVER CWA...AND SFC
PARCEL LIS OF -4 TO -5.

BASED PLACEMENT OF OVERALL FEATURES ON ETA 12Z.  SFC LOW SHOULD TRACK
ACROSS NRN MO TO NEAR IRK BY EVENING...WITH ASSOC CD FRONT/DRYLINE
INTO CNTRL MO.  LOW-LVL JET AXIS TO SHIFT E OVR CWA BY THIS TIME AND
STRENGTHEN THE VERTICAL SPEED SHEAR.  AIRMASS WILL DESTABILIZE RAPIDLY
AND FURTHER WITH SUNS APPEARANCE THIS AFTN...WITH CAPES 2K-3K LIKELY
AND LIS -7 OR LOWER PER ETA.  AT SAME TIME SRH VALUES FCST 200-300.
SVR WX THREAT QUITE REAL THIS AFTN AS SET UP QUITE DIFFERENT FROM THUR'S
QUIET DAY.

COLD FRONT TO SLOW ITS MOVEMENT TONIGHT...AND BE ALONG A LINE FROM
ROUGHLY EVV-PAH-JBR BY 12Z SAT AS WAVE DVLPS IN NE TX AND FRONT
BEGINS TO PARALLEL UPR FLOW.  THUS CHC FOR THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONT
TONIGHT...THEN MAINLY IN SOUTHERN AND EASTERN SECTIONS OF CWA AS FRONT
STALLS AND BEST INSTABILITY AXIS SETS UP E OF A LINE FROM SDF-HOP-LIT.
SO TOMORROW AFTN MAY BE QUIET IN SRN IL AND SE MO ESP BY MIDDAY INTO
THE AFTERNOON.  WENT CLOSE TO GUID NOS AS THEY ARE IN FAIRLY GOOD
AGREEMENT.

AREA           LOWS            HIGHS           POPS
WRN KY         60-65           MID 70S          55
SE MO          NEAR 60         MID 70S          53
SRN IL         LOW 60S         MID 70S          63
SW IN          60-65           MID 70S          64
HOP/OWB/       MID 60S         NEAR 70          47
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