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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 208, NWS Paducah, KY

June 14, 1998Hardin County, Illinois

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1998, 6:14 PM CDT for Hardin County, Illinois. It was in force for 46 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 14, 1998, 6:14 PM CDT (23:14 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 1998, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Hardin County, IL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 14, 6:26 PM CDT	Hail 2	Cave In Rock, IL	Large hail fell, measuring up to 2 inches in diameter at Elizabethtown. The hail shredded some gardens and likely dented vehicles.
Jun 14, 6:26 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Cave In Rock, IL	Trees were blown down, blocking a few roads, including Illinois Routes 1 and 146.

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 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, 3:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

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, 1:27 PM CDT, 4 hours 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 1:27 PM CDT, 4 hours 47 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
125 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 1998

...ROUGH EVENING WEATHER AHEAD...
ALONG WITH POSSIBLE SEVERE ALSO CONTINUE FFW....

STRONG STORM PARAMTERS ARE INDICATED WITH THE ETA MODEL INTO THE
EVENING HOURS ACROSS FA.  14/17Z ADAP DATA VERIFIES THIS SOLUTION
WITH STRONG SURFACE MOISTURE CONVERGENCE...LI'S...CAP STRENGTH...ET AL.
ALONG SURFACE BOUNDARY MOVING EAST THROUGH MISSOURI.

ETA MODEL STABILIZES ATMOSHPERE WITH PASSAGE OF THIS BOUNDARY
TONIGHT...FIRST ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSOURI (EARLY EVENING) AND FINALLY
SOUTHWEST INDIANA/WEST KENTUCKY UNTIL SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT.  PREFER
SOME TYPE OF CATEGORICAL WORDING REFLECTING THIS TIMING.

ALSO WITH LOW FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE (FFG)...WOULD LIKE TO CONTINUE FFW
FOR FORECAST AREA (FA).  SEMO COUNTIES AWAY FROM MISSISSIPPI RIVER ARE
THE BEST BET TO BE EXEMPTED FROM FF DUE TO SLIGHTLY HIGHER FFG NUMBERS
AND BETTER CHANCE STORMS WILL BE EAST OF THOSE SPOTS BY ZONE VALID TIME.

CHANCE POPS IN ZONE TOMORROW ARE OK.  ETA LI'S REMAIN HIGH AND VORTICITY
IS STRONGER ACROSS FA THAN WITH THIS IMMEDIATE WAVE.  LIMITING FACTORS
INCLUDE...DRY AIR INFILTRATES INTO REGION (ESPECIALLY SOUTH 1/2 OF FA)
WITH MID TROP WARMING NOTED ALSO ON UPSTREAM 14/12Z SOUNDINGS.

FAN VALUES APPEAR TOO COOL FOR HIGHS ON MONDAY.  FAN/FWC CLOSE FOR
TONIGHT...IN THE MID 60S.  WITH MORE CLOUDS LIKELY IN NORTH 1/2 OF FA
(10-85H MEAN RH ABOVE 70%)...LIKE 75 TO 80.  80 TO~ 85 GOOD FOR SOUTH
1/2 OF FA.

PAUL W

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 14, 4:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
443 PM CDT SUN JUN 14 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0435 PM                              MO   1 INCH HAIL
06/14/98   CAPE GIRARDEAU                 REPORTED BY COUNTY SHERIFF
                                          IN NORTHEAST PART OF THE
                                          COUNTY.

Local storm report, Jun 14, 5:38 PM CDT, 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
538 PM CDT SUN JUN 14 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0450 PM    WARE                      IL   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/98   UNION                          TREE DOWN ON ROUTE 31 1/2
                                          MILE NORTH OF WARE.

0523 PM    MURPHYSBORO               IL   66 MPH TSTM GUST
06/14/98   JACKSON                        REPORTED BY EOC AT THE
                                          COUNTY COURTHOUSE.

0525 PM    GOREVILLE                 IL   .75 INCH HAIL
06/14/98   JOHNSON                        REPORTED BY COUNTY
                                          SHERIFF.

0533 PM    TUNNEL HILL               IL   TORNADO
06/14/98   JOHNSON                        STATE POLICE REPORTED A
                                          TORNADO 2 MILES EAST OF
                                          TUNNEL HILL

Local storm report, Jun 14, 5:53 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 14, 6:14 PM CDT, 0 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, 7:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Gallatin	34 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, 6:24 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

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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.