Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 1997, 6:16 PM CDT for Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. It was in force for 29 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
- Jun 13, 1997, 6:16 PM CDT (23:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1997, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Muhlenberg County, KY
The radar
The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:13 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 1:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 130 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1392 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 670 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPAH 132316 TORPAH KYC177-132345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 616 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST KENTUCKY ...MUHLENBERG COUNTY THE NWS RECEIVED AN UNCONFIRMED REPORT OF A TORNADO...ON THE GROUND...JUST SOUTH OF GREENVILLE NEAR BELTON. THIS REPORT WAS RECEIVED AT 613 PM. DOPPLER RADAR DID SHOW A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH POSSIBLE TORNADIC DEVELOPMENT. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN UPGRADED TO A TORNADO WARNING. TAKE SHELTER NOW! DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CATRS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. DH/ML &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 12:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Livingston | 28 min |
| Jun 13, 1:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Henderson, Webster | 30 min |
| Jun 13, 1:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Muhlenberg | 26 min |
| Jun 13, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Hickman | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 4:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Fulton, Hickman | 2 hr |
| Jun 13, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Calloway, Marshall | 31 min |
| Jun 13, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Fulton | 38 min |
| Jun 13, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Trigg | 37 min |
| Jun 13, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian | 40 min |
| Jun 13, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Muhlenberg, Todd | 43 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.