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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Paducah, KY

March 28, 1997Edwards County, Wabash County, Illinois

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 1997, 5:18 PM CST for Edwards County, Wabash County, Illinois. It was in force for 57 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 28, 1997, 5:18 PM CST (23:18 UTC)
Expired: Mar 28, 1997, 6:15 PM CST
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Edwards County, IL, Wabash County, IL

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 28, 2:15 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
Mar 28, 5:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 199 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 127 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -142 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 815 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 207 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 211 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

181 
WUUS1 KPAH 282318 RRA
SVRPAH
ILC047-185-290015-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
518 PM CST FRI MAR 28 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTH ILLINOIS
 
   ...EDWARDS COUNTY...WABASH COUNTY
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH OR NEAR ALBION BY 535
PM CST AND MT CARMEL BY 545 PM CST. AT 517 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR
INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 35 MILES NORTHWEST OF
EVANSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
 
SHANKLIN

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 28, 1:06 PM CST, 4 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 28, 1:06 PM CST, 4 hours 12 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
115 PM CST FRI MAR 28 1997

MAIN CONCERN IS THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT.

18Z SURFACE MAP SHOWED FRONT FROM JUST WEST OF STL TO TXK.  FRONT WAS
MOVING A BIT FASTER THAN PROGGED AND COULD BE NEAR CGI BY 3 PM AND PAH
BY 4-5 PM.  DEEPEST MOISTURE/THETAE RIDGE REMAINS ACROSS CENTRAL KY AND
FEELING HERE IS THAT STORMS WILL WAIT UNTIL THEY HIT THE BETTER MOISTR
AXIS BEFORE BECOMING SIGNIFICANT.  UNTIL THEN COULD SEE SCT TO BKN LINE
OF STORMS ALONG COLD FRONT AS IT APPROACHES MS RVR.  WITH STRONG WIND
FIELDS AND LOWERING WET BULB ZERO HEIGHTS WOULD THINK MAIN EMPHASIS
WOULD BE ISOLATED WIND AND HAIL AT ONSET.  THINK FRONT WILL REACH EAST
OF THE PADUCAH FORECAST AREA BY 9 PM.  WILL NEED MENTION OF STORMS FOR
JUST ABOUT ALL BUT SEMO ZONES THIS EVENING.

FWC AND FAN SIMILAR ON TONIGHTS LOWS AND WILL ACCEPT.  FAN A BIT HIGHER
SATURDAY BUT CUTTING DIFFERENCE GIVES 60-65 FOR SOUTHERN HALF OF FA
AND AROUND 60 NORTHERN SECTIONS.
.
LOOKS LIKE NEXT COLD FRONT ARRIVING SATURDAY NIGHT WILL BE MOISTURE
STARVED AND SHOULD ONLY BE A FEW CLOUDS...SETTING UP BEAUTIFUL EASTER
SUNDAY.

SDB

In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 28, 5:03 PM CST, 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
503 PM CST FRI MAR 28 1997

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0455 PM    CARBONDALE                IL   .75 INCH HAIL
03/28/97   JACKSON                        REPORTED BY AIRPORT TOWER

WATSON

Local storm report, Mar 28, 5:05 PM CST, 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
503 PM CST FRI MAR 28 1997

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0455 PM    CARBONDALE                IL   .75 INCH HAIL
03/28/97   JACKSON                        REPORTED BY AIRPORT TOWER

WATSON

Local storm report, Mar 28, 5:11 PM CST, 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
511 PM CST FRI MAR 28 1997

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0509 PM    TRENTON                   KY   1 INCH HAIL RPTD BY EOC
03/28/97   TODD

WATSON

Local storm report, Mar 28, 5:13 PM CST, 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
511 PM CST FRI MAR 28 1997

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0509 PM    TRENTON                   KY   1 INCH HAIL RPTD BY EOC
03/28/97   TODD

WATSON

Local storm report, Mar 28, 5:15 PM CST, 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
515 PM CST FRI MAR 28 1997

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0511 PM    ULLIN                     IL   1 INCH HAIL
03/28/97   PULASKI                        REPORTED BY STATE POLICE

WATSON

Local storm report, Mar 28, 5:16 PM CST, 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
515 PM CST FRI MAR 28 1997

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0511 PM    ULLIN                     IL   1 INCH HAIL
03/28/97   PULASKI                        REPORTED BY STATE POLICE

WATSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 28, 3:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Perry	33 min
Mar 28, 3:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jefferson	38 min
Mar 28, 3:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Perry	39 min
Mar 28, 4:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jackson	36 min
Mar 28, 4:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jefferson	27 min
Mar 28, 4:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Hamilton, Wayne	53 min
Mar 28, 4:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jackson, Williamson	51 min
Mar 28, 5:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Pulaski	24 min
Mar 28, 5:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Johnson	54 min
Mar 28, 5:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Saline	51 min
Mar 28, 5:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	White	59 min
Mar 28, 5:38 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Johnson, Massac, Pope	22 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.