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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 210, NWS Paducah, KY

June 14, 1998Pope County, Illinois

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1998, 6:24 PM CDT for Pope County, Illinois. It was in force for 51 min. 1 report 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, 6:24 PM CDT (23:24 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 1998, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Pope County, IL

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 14, 6:32 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 60Eddyville, ILThunderstorm winds downed trees and blew a roof off a building.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 14, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 226 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1998-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 6 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1998-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 254 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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, 1:27 PM CDT, 4 hours 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 1:27 PM CDT, 4 hours 57 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 41 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, 46 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, 31 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 7:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHUnion24 min
Jun 14, 6:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCrittenden, Livingston51 min
Jun 14, 6:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHUnion, Webster63 min
Jun 14, 7:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHGallatin34 min
Jun 14, 9:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHWayne51 min
Jun 14, 9:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHEdwards, Wabash41 min
Jun 14, 4:15 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHAlexander30 min
Jun 14, 4:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHUnion32 min
Jun 14, 4:40 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHPerry35 min
Jun 14, 4:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHJackson51 min
Jun 14, 5:05 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHUnion25 min
Jun 14, 5:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHJohnson49 min
Jun 14, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHSaline, Williamson60 min
Jun 14, 5:38 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHJohnson, Pope32 min
Jun 14, 5:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHUnion48 min
Jun 14, 6:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHHardin46 min
Jun 14, 1:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCarter, Ripley52 min
Jun 14, 2:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHButler58 min
Jun 14, 3:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHRipley46 min
Jun 14, 3:54 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHBollinger36 min
Jun 14, 4:01 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHCape Girardeau44 min
Jun 14, 4:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHPerry34 min
Jun 14, 5:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHNew Madrid37 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.