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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 163, NWS Paducah, KY

July 8, 1997Pulaski County, Illinois

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1997, 7:23 PM CDT for Pulaski County, Illinois. It was in force for 37 min. 1 report 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, 7:23 PM CDT (00:23 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 1997, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Pulaski County, IL

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 8, 7:40 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Villa Ridge, IL	A large tree was blown across railroad tracks near Villa Ridge. A couple of trees were down east of Pulaski.

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, 5 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 2:15 PM CDT, 5 hours 8 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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 8, 6:51 PM CDT, 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
651 PM CDT TUE JUL 08 1997

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

0641 PM    CLUBB                     MO   TORNADO
07/08/97   WAYNE                          REPORTED BY RESIDENT IN
                                          CLUBB. TREE LIMBS DOWN.
                                          VERIFIED BY WAYNE CO EOC.

Local storm report, Jul 8, 7:16 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
716 PM CDT TUE JUL 08 1997

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

0710 PM    ARAB                      MO   .75 INCH HAIL
07/08/97   BOLLINGER                      REPORTED RELAYED BY
                                          SHERIFFS OFFICE FROM
                                          SPOTTER IN ARAB IN
                                          SOUTHERN BOLLINGER.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 8, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Stoddard	30 min
Jul 8, 7:41 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Bollinger	109 min
Jul 8, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Scott, Stoddard	40 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.