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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS Paducah, KY

July 8, 1997Wayne County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1997, 5:55 PM CDT for Wayne County, Missouri. It was in force for 50 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: Jul 8, 1997, 5:55 PM CDT (22:55 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 1997, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Wayne County, MO

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 8, 6:17 PM CDT	Hail 1	Coldwater, MO
Jul 8, 6:41 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Clubb, MO	A funnel cloud briefly touched down near Clubb, shearing off the tops of large trees in different directions.

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 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 Jul 8, 2:15 PM CDT, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 2:15 PM CDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
115 PM CST TUE JUL 8 1997

BIG CONCERN TODAY IS MCS INDUCED CIRCULATION CENTER MOVING ACROSS
MISSOURI AND THE PREVIOUS BOUNDARIES/GRAVITY WAVES ET AL OUT AHEAD
OF IT.  THUNDERSTORMS ADDED TO TODAYS FORECAST BUT WILL PROBABLY
REMAIN ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED IN COVERAGE.  MOST OF THIS
SHOULD DIE WITH SUNSET...BUT QUESTION REMAINS AS TO WHERE NEXT
SYSTEM WILL FORM OVERNIGHT AND WHAT FRONT WILL DO WEDNESDAY.

PREFER ETA VERSION OF TAKING MOST QPF INTO SOUTHERN ARK TODAY
AS COMPLEX DEVELOPS IN AREA OF BEST INSTABILITY/MOISTURE INDUCED
BY OUTFLOWS FROM MCS.  NGM HINTING THAT ANOTHER MCS MAY FORM IN
MISSOURI OVERNIGHT BUT INFLOW MAY BE INTERRUPTED BY ARK ACTIVITY
THEREFORE WILL PUT MORE WEIGHT IN ETA ATTM.  WILL SUGGEST MAINTAINING
THE CHANCE POPS THROUGH WEDNESDAY.  COLD FRONT SLOWLY SAGS TOWARD
THIS AREA AND REAL DRY AIR MAY WAIT UNTIL HEIGHTS LOWER LATER IN WEEK
TO GET THIS FAR SOUTH.  THEREFORE PREFER A GRADUAL COOLING TREND MUCH
LIKE FWC INDICATES.
.
FWC/FAN TEMPS ARE NOW RUNNING PRETTY CLOSE TO ACTUAL SO WILL MAKE
NO BOLD SUGGESTIONS ABOUT DEVIATING.

SDB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 8, 6:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Wayne	44 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.