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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Paducah, KY

June 13, 1997Scott County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 1997, 8:14 PM CDT for Scott County, Missouri. It was in force for 31 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, 8:14 PM CDT (01:14 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 1997, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Scott County, MO

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 250 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: 1856 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1154 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 4.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KPAH 140115 RRA
TORPAH
MOC201-140145-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
814 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  845 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI
 
   ...SCOTT COUNTY
 
A TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH OR NEAR DIEHLSTADT BY 815 PM CDT.
AT 807 PM CDT...A STORM SPOTTER REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD SOUTH OF SALCEDO
OR 15 MILES SOUTH OF CAPE GIRARDEAU MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AtN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.
 
SHANKLIN
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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Jun 13, 1:25 PM CDT, 6 hours 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 1:25 PM CDT, 6 hours 49 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
120 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 1997

FORECAST ISSUE OF THE DAY... PRECIP CHANCES TONIGHT

LATEST 1KM VIS/8KM IR SATELLITE SHOWING GRADUALLY WEAKENING REMNANTS OF
MCS MOVING THROUGH EASTERN PART OF FA.  COOLEST CLOUD TOPS MAINTAINING
STATUS QUO AS SYSTEM MOVES INTO -6 LIFTED INDICES (SSL - ADAP).  ON THE
POSITIVE SIDE...MCS HAS WORKED TO STABALIZE ATMOSPHERE A BIT OVER
SEMO/WKY/SIL...EVEN WITH SUNSHINE RETURNING.

MODELS IN DECENT AGREEMENT IN SHARPENING H5 TROF AS S/W ENERGY MOVES
ALONG MO/AR BORDER ACROSS FA TONIGHT.  LAYER MEAN RH FIELDS AND FCST
SOUNDINGS REVEAL 70%+ FROM  H10-H7 THROUGH 12Z SAT.  THIS...IN COMBO
WITH H8-H5 VERT VEL BULLSEYE AND NOSE OF H8 JET POKING INTO SOUTHERN
PART OF FA...WILL KEEP CHANCE/LIKELY POPS ACROSS AREA TONIGHT.

AS WEAK COOL FRONT SAGS SOUTH ACROSS AREA OVERNIGHT...DRIER AIR WILL
BEGIN TO FILTER INTO AREA...PUTTING A GRADUAL END TO PRECIP.  THINKn
EARLY MORNING POP A GOOD IDEA OVER SWIN/WKY/SIL...WITH DRIER
CONDITIONS IN SEMO AS NEGATIVE VORT ADVECTION TAKES HOLD.

FWC/FAN LOW TEMPS LOOK GOOD (VERIFIED BY 2M TEMPS FROM ETA) WITH
UPPER 60S TONIGHT.

KEYSOR

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 13, 6:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
627 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 1997

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

0615 PM    GREENVILLE                KY   TORNADO
06/13/97   MUHLENBERG                     REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          SERVICES.

PRESLEY

Local storm report, Jun 13, 6:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
633 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 1997

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

0617 PM    GREENVILLE                KY   TORNADO
06/13/97   MUHLENBERG                     ONE HOUSE DESTROYED SOUTH
                                          OF GREENVILLE ON HWY 171.

Local storm report, Jun 13, 6:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
633 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 1997

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

0617 PM    GREENVILLE                KY   TORNADO.
06/13/97   MUHLENBERG                     ONE HOUSE DESTROYED SOUTH
                                          OF GREENVILLE ON HWY 171.
                                          REPORTED BY STATE POLICE.

PRESLEY

Local storm report, Jun 13, 8:02 PM CDT, 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
802 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 1997

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

0735 PM                              MO   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/13/97   BOLLINGER                      GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL 5S
                                          ZALMA

Local storm report, Jun 13, 8:03 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
802 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 1997

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

0735 PM                              MO   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/13/97   BOLLINGER                      GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL 5S
                                          ZALMA

Local storm report, Jun 13, 8:14 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
814 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 1997

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

0806 PM                              MO   65 MPH TSTM GUST
06/13/97   SCOTT                          GUSTS 60 TO 70 MPH IN
                                          SOUTH SALCEDO

YORK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 7:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Wayne	29 min
Jun 13, 7:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Perry	73 min
Jun 13, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Bollinger	68 min
Jun 13, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Cape Girardeau	56 min
Jun 13, 7:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Stoddard	53 min
Jun 13, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Butler	32 min
Jun 13, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Scott	39 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.