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Tornado Warning 42, NWS Paducah, KY

July 14, 1996New Madrid County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Jul 14, 1996, 1:27 PM CDT for New Madrid County, Missouri. It was in force for 33 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: Jul 14, 1996, 1:27 PM CDT (18:27 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 1996, 2:00 PM CDT
In force: 33 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 18:29 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 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.

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: 1615 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 584 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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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 Jul 14, 1:22 PM CDT, 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 1:22 PM CDT, 5 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 14, 11:22 AM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before

KYZ001>022-ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-MOZ076-086-087-
100-107>112-114-072100-

THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...VALID TIL 7 AM MONDAY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1115 AM CDT SUN JUL 14 1996

...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY...

A COLD FRONT AND RELATIVELY STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE IS MOVING
TOWARDS THE REGION TODAY AND WILL PASS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT.  THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY AS THIS SYSTEM PASSES...DEVELOPING
THIS MORNING OVER SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND SPREADING INTO WEST KENTUCKY
...SOUTHERN ILLINOIS AND SOUTHWEST INDIANA BY THE AFTERNOON.

INSTABILITY IS MODERATE AND SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF MOISTURE ARE NOW
PRESENT THROUGHOUT THE ATMOSPHERE.  WIND SHEAR IS WEAK WITH THIS SYSTEM
AND THE THREAT OF TORNADOES WILL BE MINIMAL.  EVEN STRONG DAMAGING
STRAIGHT LINE WINDS ARE NOT LIKELY...HOWEVER SOME OF THE STORMS COULD
PRODUCE LOCALIZED DOWNBURSTS LATER TODAY AND SOME HAIL.  HEAVY RAINS
MAY BE THE GREATEST THREAT.
.
IT APPEARS THE BEST LOCATION FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE STORMS WILL BE
OVER WEST KENTUCKY...PARTS OF SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS AND SOUTHWEST
INDIANA LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.  PARTIAL SUNSHINE WILL
ALLOW TEMPERATURES IN THESE AREAS TO REACH WELL INTO THE 80S
MAKING THE ATMOSPHERE A BIT MORE UNSTABLE.

THE STORMS WILL BE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH AS THE ENTIRE
SYSTEM MOVES EASTWARD.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE IN SOME AREAS THIS AFTERNOON.

SDB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 14, 1:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Scott	30 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.