Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 200, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 1997, 6:10 PM CDT for Perry County, Missouri. It was in force for 35 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 19, 1997, 6:10 PM CDT (23:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 1997, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Perry County, MO
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 6:25 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Perryville, MO | Numerous branches were blown down across roads in Perryville. A spotter estimated winds of 60 MPH. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 292 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1479 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 924 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | White | 27 min |
| Jul 19, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Saline, Williamson | 44 min |
| Jul 19, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Franklin | 28 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.