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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Paducah, KY

July 19, 1997Franklin County, Illinois

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 1997, 6:17 PM CDT for Franklin County, Illinois. It was in force for 28 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
Jul 19, 1997, 6:17 PM CDT (23:17 UTC)
Expired
Jul 19, 1997, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Franklin County, IL

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 242 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 1997-07-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1479 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 1997-07-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 35 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 19, 6:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHPerry35 min
Jul 19, 4:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHWhite27 min
Jul 19, 6:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHSaline, Williamson44 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 1997Every 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.