Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 1, 1997, 8:19 PM CST for Calloway County, Kentucky. It was in force for 26 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, 8:19 PM CST (02:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 1997, 8:45 PM CST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Calloway County, KY
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 2:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Mar 1, 7:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 769 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1269 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 330 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 5.2
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, 1:12 PM CST, 7 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 1, 1:12 PM CST, 7 hours 7 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 115 PM CST SAT MAR 1 1997 MARCH IS DEFINITELY COMING IN LIKE A LION. SURFACE COLD FRONT WAS THROUGH SGF AND COU AS OF 18Z. NGM/ETA/AVN BRING THE COLD FRONT INTO SE MISSOURI BY 06Z AND SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY BY 12Z. A VERY WARM MOIST SOUTHERLY WIND FLOW IN THE LOW LEVELS WAS ADVECTING 70 DEGREE DEW POINTS NORTHWARD THROUGH ARKANSAS. WAA TYPE CONVECTION HAS DECREASED CONSIDERABLY ACROSS THE PAH FA SINCE 16Z. THE FOCUS SHIFTS TO THE APPROACHING COLD FRONT. 18Z KLZK RADAR AND LIGHTNING DATA INDICATED CONVECTION WAS ON THE INCREASE ACROSS ARKANSAS. 12Z SGF RAOB WAS VERY DRY...BUT AS COLD FRONT MOVES EAST INTO MUCH DEEPER MOISTURE...CONVECTION SHOULD INCREASE AHEAD OF THE FRONT. STORMS OVER ARKANSAS WILL LIKELY ADVECT NEWD UNDER 60 KNOT 500 MB FLOW. AXIS OF GREATEST INSTABILITY IS PROGGED TO COINCIDE WITH VERY STRONG LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE ALONG COLD FRONT OVER THE PAH/EVV/CGI AREAS AT 06Z. 20 TO 30 KNOT SOUTHERLY BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW WILL FEED STORMS WITH PLENTY OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE. FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE VALUES ARE VERY LOW...GENERALLY LESS THAN 2 INCHES IN THREE HOURS. A CONTINUATION OF THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR MOST OF THE PAH CWFA IS WARRANTED. SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL FOR TONIGHT IS ALSO QUITE STRONG. HELICITIES ARE PROGGED TO REMAIN QUITE HIGH TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY THIS EVENING...WHEN DIRECTIONAL SHEAR WILL BE STRONGEST. SUPERCELL DEVELOPMENT IS QUITE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE FA TONIGHT. WEATHER QUIETS DOWN SUNDAY AS COLD FRONT MOVES EAST OF THE FA VERY EARLY IN THE DAY. GRIDDED DATA TIME SERIES CROSS SECTIONS SHOW CONSIDERABLE MOISTURE LINGERING BEHIND THE FRONT. LOTS OF CLOUDS AND COOLER TEMPERATURES ON TAP...WITH SOME DRIZZLE OR LIGHT RAIN POSSIBLE IN THE MORNING. MY/PS
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 1, 6:04 PM CST, 2 hours 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
604 PM CST SAT MAR 01 1997
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0558 PM LIVERMORE KY TORNADO
03/01/97 MCLEAN POLICE REPORTING TORNADO
MOVING ALONG US HWY 431
TOWARD DAVIESS COLocal storm report, Mar 1, 6:05 PM CST, 2 hours 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
604 PM CST SAT MAR 01 1997
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0558 PM LIVERMORE KY TORNADO
03/01/97 MCLEAN POLICE REPORTING TORNADO
MOVING ALONG US HWY 431
TOWARD DAVIESS COLocal storm report, Mar 1, 7:35 PM CST, 44 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
735 PM CST SAT MAR 01 1997
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0731 PM IUKA KY
03/01/97 LIVINGSTON A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS
REPORTED NEAR IUKA IN
LIVINGSTON COUNTY KENTUCKY
BY A CITIZEN. REPORT
RELAYED BY DES.Local storm report, Mar 1, 7:36 PM CST, 43 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
735 PM CST SAT MAR 01 1997
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0731 PM IUKA KY
03/01/97 LIVINGSTON A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS
REPORTED NEAR IUKA IN
LIVINGSTON COUNTY KENTUCKY
$ BY A CITIZEN. REPORT
RELAYED BY DES.Local storm report, Mar 1, 7:45 PM CST, 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
745 PM CST SAT MAR 01 1997
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0725 PM GILBERTSVILLE KY WIND DAMAGE
03/01/97 MARSHALL DEBRIS BLOWN ACROSS
INTERSTATE 24 NEAR
GILBERTSVILLE REPORTED BY
DESLocal storm report, Mar 1, 7:46 PM CST, 33 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
745 PM CST SAT MAR 01 1997
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0725 PM GILBERTSVILLE KY WIND DAMAGE
03/01/97 MARSHALL DEBRIS BLOWN ACROSS
INTERSTATE 24 NEAR
GILBERTSVILLE REPORTED BY
| DESThe office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 6:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Carlisle | 36 min |
| Mar 1, 7:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Livingston, McCracken, Marshall | 37 min |
| Mar 1, 7:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Lyon | 34 min |
| Mar 1, 7:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Caldwell | 36 min |
| Mar 1, 9:05 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Daviess, Henderson, McLean | 6 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:05 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Crittenden, Union, Webster | 6 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:05 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Calloway, Christian, Lyon, Marshall, Trigg | 6 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:05 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Muhlenberg, Todd | 6 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:05 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Fulton, Hickman | 6 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:05 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle, McCracken | 6 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:05 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Hopkins | 6 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:05 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Livingston | 6 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:05 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Graves | 6 hr |
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.