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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS Paducah, KY

June 9, 1998Franklin County, Saline County, Williamson County, Illinois

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1998, 6:55 PM CDT for Franklin County, Saline County, Williamson County, Illinois. It was in force for 35 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 9, 1998, 6:55 PM CDT (23:55 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 1998, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Franklin County, IL, Saline County, IL, Williamson County, IL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 9, 7:02 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 55	Corinth, IL	Siding and roofing was torn off a small church. Large tree limbs were blown down.
Jun 9, 7:15 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 55	Zeigler, IL	A barn was blown down. Numerous trees and power lines were downed.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 271 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 658 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 585 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 571 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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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 Jun 9, 1:05 PM CDT, 5 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 1:05 PM CDT, 5 hours 50 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 9, 6:48 PM CDT, 7 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
Jun 9, 7:08 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Marshall	3 hr
Jun 9, 7:21 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Crittenden, Lyon	3 hr
Jun 9, 7:21 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Graves, Livingston, McCracken	3 hr
Jun 9, 7:21 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Calloway	3 hr
Jun 9, 7:50 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Christian, Muhlenberg, Todd	3 hr
Jun 9, 7:50 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Trigg	3 hr
Jun 9, 7:50 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Hopkins	3 hr
Jun 9, 1:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Christian, Todd	3 hr
Jun 9, 4:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Christian, Todd	3 hr
Jun 9, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Franklin	43 min
Jun 9, 3:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Cape Girardeau	35 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.