Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Paducah, KY

Issued

Mar 1, 1997, 7:28 AM CST (13:28 UTC)

Expired

Mar 1, 1997, 8:15 AM CST

In force

47 min

Issued by

NWS Paducah, KY

Area

Whole counties

Counties Graves County, KY, Hickman County, KY

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

000 
TTAA00 KPAH 011328 RRA
SVRPAH
KYC083-105-011415-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
728 AM CST SAT MAR 1 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN WEST KENTUCKY
 
   ...GRAVES COUNTY...HICKMAN COUNTY
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED TO PASS THROUGH FANCY FARM BY 745 AM.
AT 727 AM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES EAST OF CLINTON OR 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PADUCAH.
 
THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 57
MPH...DESTRUC<TIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
 
KEYSOR

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.