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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 211, NWS Paducah, KY

July 28, 1997Todd County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1997, 5:57 PM CDT for Todd County, Kentucky. It was in force for 48 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 28, 1997, 5:57 PM CDT (22:57 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 1997, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Todd County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 94 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1997-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3105 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1997-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -13 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
3105 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1167 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.1
Supercell composite
-0.4

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 4:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCaldwell55 min
Jul 28, 5:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHChristian, Todd40 min
Jul 28, 5:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHLivingston34 min
Jul 28, 6:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHMarshall43 min
Jul 28, 6:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHTrigg41 min
Jul 28, 6:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCalloway37 min
Jul 28, 4:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCarter, Ripley43 min
Jul 28, 4:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHButler48 min
Jul 28, 5:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHMississippi42 min
Jul 28, 6:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHBollinger, Cape Girardeau31 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 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.