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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Paducah, KY

June 9, 1998Saline County, Illinois

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1998, 7:44 PM CDT for Saline County, Illinois. 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 9, 1998, 7:44 PM CDT (00:44 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 1998, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Saline County, IL

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 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: 3243 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 864 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 123 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.7
Supercell composite: 7.6

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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, 6 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 1:05 PM CDT, 6 hours 39 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 9, 6:48 PM CDT, 56 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 10, 9:01 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Christian, Todd	3 hr
Jun 10, 3:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Henderson, Union, Webster	33 min
Jun 10, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Webster	47 min
Jun 10, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Hopkins	40 min
Jun 10, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Muhlenberg	49 min
Jun 10, 5:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Muhlenberg	32 min
Jun 10, 5:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Muhlenberg	18 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 1998 Every 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.