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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Paducah, KY

May 26, 1997Mississippi County, New Madrid County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1997, 6:49 AM CDT for Mississippi County, New Madrid 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 26, 1997, 6:49 AM CDT (11:49 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 1997, 7:30 AM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Mississippi County, MO, New Madrid County, MO

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 11.8 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-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: 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, 4 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 2:08 AM CDT, 4 hours 41 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
May 26, 4:52 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Fulton	2 hr
May 26, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Fulton	31 min
May 25, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Perry	65 min
May 26, 5:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Butler	69 min
May 26, 2:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Wayne	44 min
May 26, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Perry	50 min
May 26, 3:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Stoddard	48 min
May 26, 3:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Stoddard	31 min
May 26, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	New Madrid	41 min
May 26, 4:52 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Stoddard, Wayne	2 hr
May 26, 5:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Butler	37 min
May 25, 10:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jackson, Perry	44 min
May 25, 10:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jackson, Union, Williamson	41 min
May 25, 11:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Johnson	48 min
May 26, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jackson	52 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 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.