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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 134, NWS Paducah, KY

May 25, 1998McCracken County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 1998, 6:21 AM CDT for McCracken County, Kentucky. It was in force for 54 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 25, 1998, 6:21 AM CDT (11:21 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 1998, 7:15 AM CDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties

County McCracken County, KY

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 25, 3:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 344 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, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 1998-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 1998-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 29 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
859 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 6:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHBallard47 min
May 25, 7:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHMuhlenberg44 min
May 25, 5:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHTrigg31 min
May 25, 4:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHJackson49 min
May 25, 5:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHAlexander36 min
May 25, 3:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHBollinger, Perry64 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.