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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 211, NWS Paducah, KY

June 14, 1998Union County, Webster County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1998, 6:52 PM CDT for Union County, Webster County, Kentucky. It was in force for 63 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, 6:52 PM CDT (23:52 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 1998, 7:55 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Union County, KY, Webster County, KY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 14, 7:00 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 60	Clay, KY	Thunderstorm winds caused extensive damage to a house. Part of the house was unroofed, and a wall collapsed.
Jun 14, 7:10 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Morganfield, KY	Numerous trees were downed near Morganfield and just east of there. Trees blocked U.S. Highway 60 near Union County High School, as well as a 3/4-mile stretch located about 2 miles east of Morganfield.

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
Jun 14, 6:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 195 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, 1:27 PM CDT, 5 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 1:27 PM CDT, 5 hours 25 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

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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, 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, 6:14 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 Kentucky, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.