Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 234, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 8, 1997, 11:54 AM CDT for Franklin County, Saline County, Illinois. It was in force for 36 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
- Sep 8, 1997, 11:54 AM CDT (16:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 1997, 12:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Franklin County, IL, Saline County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 254 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
- 568 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 768 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
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 Sep 8, 2:01 AM CDT, 9 hours 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 8, 2:01 AM CDT, 9 hours 53 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Sep 8, 10:50 AM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087-100- 107>112-114-091200- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...VALID UNTIL 700 AM TUESDAY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 1100 AM CDT MON SEP 8 1997 THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. EXPECT STORM CHANCES TO DECREASE TONIGHT FROM WEST TO EAST. ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE MAINLY UNTIL SUNSET AND SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY. A NEARLY STATIONARY FRONT ORIENTED WEST TO EAST AND CLOSE TO INTERSTATE 64 WILL BE THE FOCUS FOR STORMS. A LOW PRESSURE CENTER WILL MOVE ALONG THE FRONT TODAY AND BE ENHANCED BY AN AREA OF UPPER LEVEL ENERGY SWEEPING THROUGH SOUTHEAST MISSOURI INTO THE LOWER OHIO VALLEY. EXTENSIVE CLOUD COVER AND WEAK SURFACE TO MID LEVEL WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN LIMITING FACTORS TO STORM DEVELOPMENT AND ESPECIALLY SEVERE STORMS. THE ATMOSPHERE REMAINED VERY MOIST. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS LIKELY WITH ANY THUNDERSTORMS. THE MAIN SEVERE xTHREAT...ALTHOUGH LIMITED...WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DOWNBURST WIND GUSTS. STORMS WILL MOVE TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH OR LESS. PAUL W
Special weather statement, Sep 8, 11:00 AM CDT, 54 minutes before
ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087-100- 107>112-114-091200- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...VALID UNTIL 700 AM TUESDAY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 1100 AM CDT MON SEP 8 1997 THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. EXPECT STORM CHANCES TO DECREASE TONIGHT FROM WEST TO EAST. ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE MAINLY UNTIL SUNSET AND SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY. A NEARLY STATIONARY FRONT ORIENTED WEST TO EAST AND CLOSE TO INTERSTATE 64 WILL BE THE FOCUS FOR STORMS. A LOW PRESSURE CENTER WILL MOVE ALONG THE FRONT TODAY AND BE ENHANCED BY AN AREA OF UPPER LEVEL ENERGY SWEEPING THROUGH SOUTHEAST MISSOURI INTO THE LOWER OHIO VALLEY. EXTENSIVE CLOUD COVER AND WEAK SURFACE TO MID LEVEL WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN LIMITING FACTORS TO STORM DEVELOPMENT AND ESPECIALLY SEVERE STORMS. THE ATMOSPHERE REMAINED VERY MOIST. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS LIKELY WITH ANY THUNDERSTORMS. THE MAIN SEVERE THREAT...ALTHOUGH LIMITED...WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DOWNBURST WIND GUSTS. STORMS WILL MOVE TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH OR LESS. PAUL W
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 3:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Fulton | 117 min |
| Sep 8, 5:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Daviess | 95 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.