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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Paducah, KY

June 13, 1997Muhlenberg County, Todd County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1997, 6:02 PM CDT for Muhlenberg County, Todd County, Kentucky. It was in force for 43 min. 2 reports 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: Jun 13, 1997, 6:02 PM CDT (23:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 1997, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Muhlenberg County, KY, Todd County, KY

The radar

The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 13, 6:13 PM CDT	Tornado F2	Greenville, KY	The tornado tracked through wooded farmlands, so damage was relatively light. The most severe damage occurred to a mobile home and a log home located about 500 feet apart. The mobile home practically disintegrated. The entire structure was lifted from its site
Jun 13, 6:15 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Kirkmansville, KY	Trees were blown down.

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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 13, 1:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 111 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: 1392 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 670 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 195 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 3.0

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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 Jun 13, 1:25 PM CDT, 4 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 1:25 PM CDT, 4 hours 37 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
120 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 1997

FORECAST ISSUE OF THE DAY... PRECIP CHANCES TONIGHT

LATEST 1KM VIS/8KM IR SATELLITE SHOWING GRADUALLY WEAKENING REMNANTS OF
MCS MOVING THROUGH EASTERN PART OF FA.  COOLEST CLOUD TOPS MAINTAINING
STATUS QUO AS SYSTEM MOVES INTO -6 LIFTED INDICES (SSL - ADAP).  ON THE
POSITIVE SIDE...MCS HAS WORKED TO STABALIZE ATMOSPHERE A BIT OVER
SEMO/WKY/SIL...EVEN WITH SUNSHINE RETURNING.

MODELS IN DECENT AGREEMENT IN SHARPENING H5 TROF AS S/W ENERGY MOVES
ALONG MO/AR BORDER ACROSS FA TONIGHT.  LAYER MEAN RH FIELDS AND FCST
SOUNDINGS REVEAL 70%+ FROM  H10-H7 THROUGH 12Z SAT.  THIS...IN COMBO
WITH H8-H5 VERT VEL BULLSEYE AND NOSE OF H8 JET POKING INTO SOUTHERN
PART OF FA...WILL KEEP CHANCE/LIKELY POPS ACROSS AREA TONIGHT.

AS WEAK COOL FRONT SAGS SOUTH ACROSS AREA OVERNIGHT...DRIER AIR WILL
BEGIN TO FILTER INTO AREA...PUTTING A GRADUAL END TO PRECIP.  THINKn
EARLY MORNING POP A GOOD IDEA OVER SWIN/WKY/SIL...WITH DRIER
CONDITIONS IN SEMO AS NEGATIVE VORT ADVECTION TAKES HOLD.

FWC/FAN LOW TEMPS LOOK GOOD (VERIFIED BY 2M TEMPS FROM ETA) WITH
UPPER 60S TONIGHT.

KEYSOR

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 13, 4:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
415 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 1997

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

0403 PM                             KY    LARGE HAIL AND WIND DAMAGE
06/13/97   CLINTON                        .75 INCH HAIL
           HICKMAN                        TREES DOWN AND PENNY SIZE
                                          HAIL IN CLINTON

JK/DH

Local storm report, Jun 13, 4:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
415 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 1997

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

0403 PM                             KY    LARGE HAIL AND WIND DAMAGE
06/13/97   CLINTON                        .75 INCH HAIL
           HICKMAN                        TREES DOWN AND PENNY SIZE
                                          HAIL IN CLINTON

JK/DFH

Local storm report, Jun 13, 4:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 13, 5:59 PM CDT, 3 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
Jun 13, 12:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Livingston	28 min
Jun 13, 1:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Henderson, Webster	30 min
Jun 13, 1:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Muhlenberg	26 min
Jun 13, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Hickman	32 min
Jun 13, 4:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Fulton, Hickman	2 hr
Jun 13, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Calloway, Marshall	31 min
Jun 13, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Fulton	38 min
Jun 13, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Trigg	37 min
Jun 13, 5:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian	40 min
Jun 13, 6:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Muhlenberg	29 min
Jun 13, 5:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ripley	26 min
Jun 13, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Perry	22 min
Jun 13, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Perry	32 min
Jun 13, 11:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Johnson, Williamson	46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.