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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Paducah, KY

June 14, 1998Gallatin County, Illinois

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1998, 7:11 AM CDT for Gallatin County, Illinois. 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: Jun 14, 1998, 7:11 AM CDT (12:11 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 1998, 7:45 AM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Gallatin County, IL

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 14, 6:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 232 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: 6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -256 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 813 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 254 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 350 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 14, 2:15 AM CDT, 4 hours 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 2:15 AM CDT, 4 hours 56 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 14, 4:46 AM CDT, 2 hours 25 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 14, 7:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Union	24 min
Jun 14, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Crittenden, Livingston	51 min
Jun 14, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Union, Webster	63 min
Jun 14, 9:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Wayne	51 min
Jun 14, 9:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Edwards, Wabash	41 min
Jun 14, 4:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Alexander	30 min
Jun 14, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Union	32 min
Jun 14, 4:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Perry	35 min
Jun 14, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jackson	51 min
Jun 14, 5:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Union	25 min
Jun 14, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Johnson	49 min
Jun 14, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Saline, Williamson	60 min
Jun 14, 5:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Johnson, Pope	32 min
Jun 14, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Union	48 min
Jun 14, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Hardin	46 min
Jun 14, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Pope	51 min
Jun 14, 1:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Carter, Ripley	52 min
Jun 14, 2:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Butler	58 min
Jun 14, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ripley	46 min
Jun 14, 3:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Bollinger	36 min
Jun 14, 4:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Cape Girardeau	44 min
Jun 14, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Perry	34 min
Jun 14, 5:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	New Madrid	37 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.