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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Paducah, KY

May 19, 1997Stoddard County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1997, 2:49 PM CDT for Stoddard County, Missouri. It was in force for 41 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
May 19, 1997, 2:49 PM CDT (19:49 UTC)
Expired
May 19, 1997, 3:30 PM CDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Stoddard County, MO

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 225 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 1997-05-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1141 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 1997-05-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1141 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
544 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 19, 3:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCarlisle43 min
May 19, 3:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHScott36 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1997Every 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.