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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Paducah, KY

March 28, 1997Marshall County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 1997, 7:06 PM CST for Marshall County, Kentucky. It was in force for 24 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, 7:06 PM CST (01:06 UTC)
Expired: Mar 28, 1997, 7:30 PM CST
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Marshall County, KY

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:06 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 28, 2:15 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 176 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: 1331 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1544 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 223 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 390 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.1
Supercell composite: 11.6

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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 28, 1:06 PM CST, 6 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 28, 1:06 PM CST, 6 hours 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, 6:17 PM CST, 49 minutes before

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

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

0558 PM    PRINCETON                 IN   WIND DAMAGE
03/28/97   GIBSON                         FARM BUILDINGS DAMAGED
                                          1-1/2 MI N OF PRINCETON.
                                          POWER LINES DOWN 1 MI EAST
                                          OF PRINCETON

DS/RLW

Local storm report, Mar 28, 6:19 PM CST, 47 minutes before

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

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

0558 PM    PRINCETON                 IN   WIND DAMAGE
03/28/97   GIBSON                         FARM BUILDINGS DAMAGED
                                          1-1/2 MI N OF PRINCETON.
                                          POWER LINES DOWN 1 MI EAST
  D                                        OF PRINCETON

DS/RLW

Local storm report, Mar 28, 6:40 PM CST, 26 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 28, 6:30 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Crittenden, Union, Webster	45 min
Mar 28, 7:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Webster	33 min
Mar 28, 7:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Daviess, McLean	42 min
Mar 28, 8:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Muhlenberg	36 min
Mar 28, 6:02 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Hardin, Pope	28 min
Mar 28, 6:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Gallatin, Saline	46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1997 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.