Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 1, 1997, 10:53 AM CST for Scott County, Stoddard County, Missouri. It was in force for 37 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
- Mar 1, 1997, 10:53 AM CST (16:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 1997, 11:30 AM CST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Scott County, MO, Stoddard County, MO
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:57 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 237 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
- 1288 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 477 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 6.6
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 Mar 1, 2:10 AM CST, 8 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 1, 2:10 AM CST, 8 hours 43 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 208 AM CST SAT MAR 1 1997 FORECAST ITEMS CENTER ON TIMING OF SUBSEQUENT THUNDER EVENTS AND POTENTIAL FOR FLASH FLOODING. MODELS SHOWING SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT TO MOVE TO NEAR MISSISSIPPI RIVER BY 12Z SUNDAY. COPIOUS MOISTURE BEING ADVECTED NORTHWARD ON HEELS OF 50+ KT H85 JET WITH H85 DEWPOINTS AOA +12C. BOUNDARY ON SFC MAPS FROM NORTHERN KY INTO EASTERN ARK SHOULD CONTINUE MOVING SLOWLY NORTHWARD TODAY AS PLAINS COLD FRONT APPROACHES. COULD SEE SLIGHT BREAK IN ACTION DURING MORNING HOURS AS WARM FRONT LIFTS FURTHER NORTH BUT STILL ENOUGH FOR AT LEAST CHANCE POPS. CATEGORICAL POPS ALL AREAS SATURDAY NIGHT WITH FRONT. CHANCE OF SEVERE LOOKS TO BE MAINLY CONFINED TO WEST KENTUCKY THRU PERIOD...BUT LOTS OF RAIN THIS STORM (AND THROUGHOUT MOST OF WINTER) HAS LEFT GROUND SOGGY AND WILL SUGGEST A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR AT LEAST W KY TODAY. SEE ALSO GRAPHICS 93/94E. . FWC IS UNDERDOING TEMPS ATTM BUT SHOULD NEED TO ADJUST UPWARD ONLY SLIGHTLY AS CLOUDS/SHOWERS MAY LIMIT DIURNAL RISE SOME. SDB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 6:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Daviess | 26 min |
| Feb 28, 10:10 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Christian, Muhlenberg, Todd | 5 hr |
| Feb 28, 10:10 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Christian, Muhlenberg, Todd | 4 hr |
| Feb 28, 10:45 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Christian, Muhlenberg, Todd | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 7:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Graves, Hickman | 47 min |
| Mar 1, 8:48 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Hopkins | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 8:48 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | McLean | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:20 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Daviess | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:20 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Fulton | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:20 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Crittenden, Livingston, Lyon, Webster | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:20 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Calloway, Graves, McCracken, Marshall, Trigg | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:20 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Christian, Muhlenberg, Todd | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:20 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Carlisle, Hickman | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:42 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Daviess | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:42 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Calloway, Christian, Lyon, Marshall, Trigg | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:42 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:42 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Crittenden, Livingston, McCracken | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:42 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Muhlenberg, Todd | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:42 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Webster | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 12:45 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Christian, Muhlenberg, Todd | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 12:45 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Calloway, Lyon, Marshall, Trigg | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 12:45 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Daviess, Henderson, McLean, Union, Webster | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 12:45 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle, Graves, Hickman, McCracken | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 12:45 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Hopkins | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 12:45 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Crittenden, Livingston | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 12:45 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Fulton | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 4:55 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Christian, Hopkins, McLean, Muhlenberg, Webster | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 4:55 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Fulton, Hickman | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 4:55 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Daviess, Henderson | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 4:55 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Crittenden, Union | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 4:55 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Calloway, Graves, Marshall, Trigg | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 4:55 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Livingston, Lyon | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 4:55 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle, McCracken | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 4:55 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Todd | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 5:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | McLean | 26 min |
| Mar 1, 3:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Mississippi, Scott | 36 min |
| Mar 1, 3:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carter | 33 min |
| Mar 1, 4:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Carter | 20 min |
| Mar 1, 4:44 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Perry, Scott, Stoddard | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 4:44 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Mississippi, New Madrid | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 4:44 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Butler, Carter, Wayne | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 4:44 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Ripley | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 5:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | New Madrid | 36 min |
| Mar 1, 5:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Mississippi, New Madrid | 49 min |
| Mar 1, 2:46 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Hardin, Massac, Pope | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 5:13 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Alexander, Johnson, Massac, Pulaski, Union | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 5:13 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Hardin, Pope | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 5:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Johnson, Massac, Pulaski | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.