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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 7, 1998, 10:14 PM CDT for Gibson County, Pike County, Indiana. It was in force for 61 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
- Apr 7, 1998, 10:14 PM CDT (03:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 7, 1998, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Gibson County, IN, Pike County, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 224 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 756 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 671 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPAH 080315 RRA TORPAH INC051-125-080415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 1014 PM CDT (1014 PM EST) TUE APR 7 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM CDT (1115 PM EST) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA ...EASTERN GIBSON COUNTY ...PIKE COUNTY A POSSIBLE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH OR NEAR OAKLAND CITY BY 1030 PM CDT. AT 1012 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED RAPID REDEVELOPMENT OF A THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 25 MILES NORTH OF EVANSVILLE ...NEAR KENNEDY HILL IN EASTERN GIBSON COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION -- TAKE COVER NOW. THIS TORNADO IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING INCREDIBLE DESTRUCTION. ACT QUICKLY...YOUR LIFE MAY DEPEND ON IT. MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR LIE FLAT IN A DITCH OR CULVERT. DO NOT TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO IN YOUR CAR. PS/DH
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Apr 7, 1:25 PM CDT, 8 hours 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 7, 1:25 PM CDT, 8 hours 49 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 125 PM CDT TUE APR 7 1998 SURFACE MAP AT 07/17Z SHOWED LOW PRESSURE NEAR MKC WITH VERTICALLY STACKED UPPER LOW (WELL DEFINED ON WATER VAPOR IMAGERY). VIS LOOP AND SFC MAP SHOWS DRIER AIR WORKING EAST ACROSS SOUTHERN MISSOURI AND WESTERN ARKANSAS. TO THE EAST OVER OUR AREA THE AIRMASS IS DESTABLIZING...BUT NOTHING ON 88D ATTM. MAIN FCST ISSUES INCLUDE IS THERE ANY CHC FOR CONVECTION THIS EVENING...THEN TSTMS/SHOWERS AGAIN WEDNESDAY. ETA DID A LITTLE BETTER JOB WITH LOW-TROP MSTR (NOT AS AGGRESSIVE AS THE NGM)...BUT IS STILL A LITTLE TO HIGH WITH SFC DWPTS. WILL COMPROMISE WITH ETA/NGM AND REALITY. FCST SOUNDINGS FROM BOTH THE ETA/MESOETA FOR WESTERN KY SHOWED LARGE SCALE DRYING TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON...WITH MSTR FAIRLY SHALLOW AROUND 3-5K. DESPITE SOME INSTABILITY...LACK OF SUFFICIENT MSTR LIKELY A BIG HINDRANCE TO TSTM DEVELOPMENT FOR THE REST OF THE DAY...ESP SOUTHERN 2/3 OF FA. STILL CANNOT COUNT OUT VERY SMALL CHC WITH BEST THREAT LIKELY NORTH 1/3 WHERE K-INDICES FCST TO STILL BE AROUND 20-24 THIS AFTERNOON. ADAP BEST MOISTURE FLUX CONVERGENCE FROM NW KENTUCKY TO ST. LOUIS...AND THIS AREA TO KEEP AN EYE ON. FOR TONIGHT...LOW TROP DRYING CONTINUES...AND OVERALL SHOULD BE MOSTLY CLEAR EVENTUALLY. BELIEVE DWPTS WILL LOWER A LITTLE...AND MINS SHOULD BE BETWEEN FWC/FAN. FOR WEDNESDAY...SECOND SHORTWAVE FORECAST TO MOVE FROM TEXAS PANHANDLE TO NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. THIS WILL ALLOW FOR BETTER HEIGHT FALLS AND MID LEVEL CAA...WHILE LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE BECOMES ESTABLISHED BACK ACROSS THE CWFA. DECENT VERTICAL MOTION FIELD FCST TO DEVELOP...BOUNDARY ACROSS EAST MISSOURI TO NORTHEAST ARKANSAS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY...ESP TOWARD THE END OF THE DAY. OTHERWISE...RETURN MSTR H9-H8 COULD MEAN SOME LOWER CLOUDS DVLPG EARLIER IN THE DAY. ETA NOT AS AGGRESSIVE AS NGM...THINK AVERAGE PARTLY CLOUDY GOOD CALL FOR NOW. AGAIN WOULD SPLIT FAN/FWC.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 9:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Gibson | 31 min |
| Apr 7, 9:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Pike | 49 min |
| Apr 7, 11:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Pike | 34 min |
| Apr 8, 5:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Spencer | 33 min |
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.