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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 260, NWS Paducah, KY

June 29, 1998Hopkins County, McLean County, Webster County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1998, 9:46 PM CDT for Hopkins County, McLean County, Webster County, Kentucky. It was in force for 44 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 29, 1998, 9:46 PM CDT (02:46 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 1998, 10:30 PM CDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Hopkins County, KY, McLean County, KY, Webster County, KY

The radar

The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 29, 9:55 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 55Dixon, KYThunderstorm winds caused major damage at Webster County High School. A section of roof about 30 by 100 feet was ripped off the center of the school. Some roofing was blown several hundred feet away.

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 29, 6:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr
Jun 29, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 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 29, 1:20 PM CDT, 8 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 1:20 PM CDT, 8 hours 26 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
120 PM CDT MON JUN 29 1998

NOON SFC MAP SHOWED WARM FRONT ACROSS CENTRAL IOWA. ADAP AND
ISOTHERM ANALYSIS SHOWS BEST INSTABILITY/DIFFERENTIAL IN TEMPERATURE
ACROSS WESTERN MISSOURI. VIS AND KEAX LOOP SHOWS CONVECTION ROLLING
OUT OF ERN KANSAS HEADED FOR THIS AREA. IN THE MEANTIME...CI DEBRIS
CLOUDS AND 15Z RUC SHOWING EVIDENCE OF MORE STABLE/SUBSIDENCE TYPE
CONDITIONS OVER OUR AREA...LIKELY INHIBITING TSTM DEVELOPMENT. MAIN
ISSUE IS TSTM CHANCES FOR TONIGHT.

HAVE TO LEAN TOWARD THE NGM A LITTLE...ALTHOUGH WOULD RATHER DEPEND
ON SATELLITE TRENDS AND MESO ANALYSIS. EXPECT CONVECTION OVER WRN
MISSOURI TO BECOME MORE ORGANIZED LATE TODAY AS AIRMASS BECOMES VERY
UNSTABLE OVER MISSOURI. THIS ACTIVITY SHOULD TRACK EAST ACROSS
CENTRAL/NORTHCENTRAL MISSOURI...THEN TURN EAST/SOUTHEAST INTO OUR FA
AFTER DARK. SHOULD BECOME A WELL ORGANIZED MCS WITH GOOD 35KT INFLUX
OF H8 AIR...BEST THETA-E ADVT INTO ECNTRL MO/SW IL BY MIDNIGHT.
H8/H3 MEAN WIND VECTOR SUPPORTS ACTIVITY SHIFTING SE INTO THE
AREA...AND THUS EXPECT HIGHEST POPS NRN 2/3...LOWEST POPS SW 1/3 FOR
OVERNIGHT. FFA NOT RECOMMENDED AT THIS TIME...THINKING WE CAN
MONITOR FOR NOW. DO SUGGEST MENTION OF HEAVY RAIN AS IS ALREADY DONE
IN SOME ZONES. FWC NOS APPEAR ON TRACK FOR LOWS AGAIN OVERNIGHT.
STRENGTHENING WIND FIELDS...DEGREES OF INSTABILITY COULD DEVELOP
DECENT REAR INFLOW JETS AND STRONG WINDS MOST LIKELY IN MODERATE RISK.
PROBABLY NEED MENTION CHC OF SVR IN ZONES AS WELL...MAINLY RISK AREA
FOR NOW.

.END...

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 29, 6:04 PM CDT, 3 hours 42 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
604 PM CDT MON JUN 29 1998

...A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN
KENTUCKY...SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...

A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE RAPIDLY SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE
LOWER OHIO VALLEY THIS EVENING. THE LINE OF STORMS WILL REACH
INTERSTATE 64 FROM MOUNT VERNON ILLINOIS TO EVANSVILLE INDIANA BETWEEN
745 AND 915 PM. AFTER 915 PM...THE LINE WILL LIKELY CROSS THE OHIO
RIVER INTO PARTS OF WESTERN KENTUCKY.

THE TORNADO WATCH...NUMBER 704...IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT. IT
INCLUDES CAPE GIRARDEAU...PERRY...SCOTT...AND MISSISSIPPI COUNTIES OF
SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. ALL OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...WESTERN KENTUCKY...
AND SOUTHWEST INDIANA IS ALSO IN THE WATCH.

THE PRIMARY THREAT WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS IN
EXCESS OF 60 MPH. ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. THESE STORMS
HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING WINDS TO 70 MPH ACROSS CENTRAL ILLINOIS IN
THE PAST HOUR.

STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS. IF A
WARNING IS ISSUED...GO TO THE LOWEST FLOOR INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING.
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

YORK
Local storm report, Jun 29, 8:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
812 PM CDT MON JUN 29 1998

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

0810 PM                              IL   50 MPH TSTM GUST
06/29/98   JEFFERSON                      NUMEROUS TREES AND
                                          POWERLINES DOWN IN
                                          NORTHERN PART OF THE
                                          COUNTY
Local storm report, Jun 29, 8:49 PM CDT, 57 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
849 PM CDT MON JUN 29 1998

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

0735 PM                              IL   WIND DAMAGE
06/29/98   WAYNE                          SEVERAL TREES DOWN IN
                                          NORTHERN PART OF COUNTY
Local storm report, Jun 29, 9:15 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 30, 12:51 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHLivingston, McCracken, Marshall4 hr
Jun 30, 12:51 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHBallard, Carlisle4 hr
Jun 30, 12:51 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHGraves4 hr
Jun 30, 1:16 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHCaldwell, Crittenden, Lyon, Trigg4 hr
Jun 30, 1:16 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHChristian4 hr
Jun 30, 1:16 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHFulton, Hickman4 hr
Jun 30, 1:16 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHCalloway4 hr
Jun 29, 7:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHEdwards, Wayne68 min
Jun 29, 7:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHWabash68 min
Jun 29, 7:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHJefferson62 min
Jun 29, 8:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHFranklin, Perry60 min
Jun 29, 8:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHHamilton, White60 min
Jun 29, 9:12 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHFranklin33 min
Jun 29, 9:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHWilliamson43 min
Jun 29, 10:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHJohnson, Williamson48 min
Jun 29, 10:43 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHFranklin, Jackson, Perry, Williamson3 hr
Jun 29, 10:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHJackson45 min
Jun 29, 11:34 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHGallatin, Hardin, Saline2 hr
Jun 29, 11:34 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHPope2 hr
Jun 29, 11:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHUnion48 min
Jun 30, 12:37 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHGallatin, Hardin, Pope, Saline4 hr
Jun 30, 12:37 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHAlexander, Johnson, Massac, Pulaski, Union4 hr
Jun 30, 12:37 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHFranklin, Jackson, Perry, Williamson4 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.