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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Paducah, KY

May 26, 1997Butler County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1997, 5:36 AM CDT for Butler County, Missouri. It was in force for 69 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 26, 1997, 5:36 AM CDT (10:36 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 1997, 6:45 AM CDT
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Butler County, MO

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 214 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 00:00Z on 1997-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1520 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 00:00Z on 1997-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1520 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-58 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1120 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
115 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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 May 26, 2:08 AM CDT, 3 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 2:08 AM CDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before
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In the hours before

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 4:52 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHFulton2 hr
May 26, 4:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHFulton31 min
May 25, 9:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHPerry65 min
May 26, 6:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHMississippi, New Madrid41 min
May 26, 2:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHWayne44 min
May 26, 3:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHPerry50 min
May 26, 3:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHStoddard48 min
May 26, 3:59 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHStoddard31 min
May 26, 4:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHNew Madrid41 min
May 26, 4:52 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHStoddard, Wayne2 hr
May 26, 5:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHButler37 min
May 25, 10:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHJackson, Perry44 min
May 25, 10:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHJackson, Union, Williamson41 min
May 25, 11:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHJohnson48 min
May 26, 3:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHJackson52 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.