Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Mar 1, 1997, 7:26 PM CST for Lyon County, Kentucky. It was in force for 34 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
- Mar 1, 1997, 7:26 PM CST (01:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 1997, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lyon County, KY
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 2:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 769 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1269 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 330 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 5.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPAH 020131 TORPAH KYC143-020200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 726 PM CST SAT MAR 1 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST KENTUCKY ...LYON COUNTY A TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH OR NEAR EDDYVILLE BY 740 PM CST. AT 726 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 20 MILES EAST OF PADUCAH OR ABOUT 5 MILES EAST OF CALVERT CITY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST NORTHEAST AT 45 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 AVAILA BLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. SHANKLIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 6:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Carlisle | 36 min |
| Mar 1, 7:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Livingston, McCracken, Marshall | 37 min |
| Mar 1, 7:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Caldwell | 36 min |
| Mar 1, 8:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Calloway | 26 min |
| Mar 1, 9:05 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Daviess, Henderson, McLean | 6 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:05 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Crittenden, Union, Webster | 6 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:05 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Calloway, Christian, Lyon, Marshall, Trigg | 6 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:05 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Muhlenberg, Todd | 6 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:05 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Fulton, Hickman | 6 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:05 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle, McCracken | 6 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:05 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Hopkins | 6 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:05 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Livingston | 6 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:05 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Graves | 6 hr |
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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.