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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 106, NWS Paducah, KY

May 26, 1997Butler County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1997, 5:38 PM CDT for Butler County, Missouri. It was in force for 37 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: May 26, 1997, 5:38 PM CDT (22:38 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 1997, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Butler County, MO

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 26, 3:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 214 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: 2792 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 536 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 130 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 5.8

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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 severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 26, 1:09 PM CDT, 4 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 1:09 PM CDT, 4 hours 29 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
105 PM CDT MON MAY 26 1997

MAIN PROBLEM TONIGHT IS THUNDERSTORM RE-DEVELOPMENT.

MCS HAS MOVED EAST OF FORECAST AREA AND FRONTAL BOUNDARY WAS FROM
NEAR BWG TO CGI AT NOON.  WITH FRONT FORECAST TO REMAIN QUASI STNRY
THROUGH TUESDAY AND PIECES OF ENERGY BREAKING OFF THE MAIN UPPER LEVEL
SYSTEM EJECTING EASTWARD WE ARE LIKELY TO SEE MORE BOUTS OF STORMS.

STAGE BEING SET TODAY WITH VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS OVER SOUTHERN PART OF
AREA AS PARTIAL CLEARING HAS TAKEN PLACE.  HOWEVER...WE APPEAR TO BE IN
AN AREA OF SOME DOWNWARD MOTION BEHIND THE MCS.  MODELS DISPLAY THIS
WITH GENERALLY NVA ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH EVENING.  HOWEVER...AS PER
SPC MCD...BOUNDARIES DO EXIST AND EXPECT DEVELOPMENT THERE LATER.
ANOTHER SPOKE OF VORTICITY PROGGED TO CROSS THE REGION LATE EVENING/
OVERNIGHT AND THINK CHANCES OF ANOTHER MCS ARE HIGH.  SUGGEST USING
LIKELY POPS TONIGHT.
.
COULD SEE MORNING STORMS SUBSIDING WITH PERHAPS ANOTHER BREAK THEN
SCATTERED STORMS AGAIN BY AFTERNOON...ALL LEADING TO HIGH DAILY POP.

AT THIS TIME WILL NOT ARGUE WITH FWC TEMPERATURES.  WITH FRONT HOVERING
IN VICINITY WILL NEED TO SPLIT ZONES BASICALLY BY EXPECTED ^TEMP
GRADIENT.

SDB

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 26, 4:29 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
429 PM CDT MON MAY 26 1997

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

0427 PM    AVA                       IL   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/26/97   JACKSON

Local storm report, May 26, 4:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
429 PM CDT MON MAY 26 1997

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

0427 PM    AVA                       IL   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/26/97   JACKSON

Local storm report, May 26, 4:40 PM CDT, 58 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
440 PM CDT MON MAY 26 1997

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

0437 PM    POPLAR BLUFF              KY   .75 INCH HAIL
05/26/97   BUTLER                         HAIL WAS NORTH OF POPLAR
                                          BLUFF. MILES UNKNOWN.

Local storm report, May 26, 4:42 PM CDT, 56 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
440 PM CDT MON MAY 26 1997

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

0437 PM    POPLAR BLUFF              KY   .75 INCH HAIL
05/26/97   BUTLER                         HAIL WAS NORTH OF POPLAR
                                          BLUFF. MILES UNKNOWN.

Special weather statement, May 26, 5:00 PM CDT, 38 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 26, 5:01 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 4:52 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Fulton	2 hr
May 26, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Fulton	31 min
May 25, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Perry	65 min
May 26, 5:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Butler	69 min
May 26, 6:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Mississippi, New Madrid	41 min
May 26, 2:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Wayne	44 min
May 26, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Perry	50 min
May 26, 3:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Stoddard	48 min
May 26, 3:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Stoddard	31 min
May 26, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	New Madrid	41 min
May 26, 4:52 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Stoddard, Wayne	2 hr
May 25, 10:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jackson, Perry	44 min
May 25, 10:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jackson, Union, Williamson	41 min
May 25, 11:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Johnson	48 min
May 26, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jackson	52 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1997 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.