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Tornado Warning 49, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 1998, 8:28 PM CDT for White County, Illinois; Posey County, Indiana. It was in force for 47 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
- Jun 12, 1998, 8:28 PM CDT (01:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 1998, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties White County, IL, Posey 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Jun 12, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 238 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
- 32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -171 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1947 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
367 WFUS1 KPAH 130127 RRA TORPAH ILC193-INC129-130215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 828 PM CDT FRI JUN 12 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WHITE COUNTY IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS POSEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 823 PM CDT...STORM SPOTTERS INDICATED A TORNADO POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR CALVIN ILLINOIS 30 MILES NORTHEST OF EVANSVILLE... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... NEW HARMONY BY 840 PM CDT THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. AVOID WINDOWS AND DOORS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDIER BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT. BEWARE OF RISING WATER. & MJN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Wayne | 60 min |
| Jun 12, 7:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Williamson | 48 min |
| Jun 12, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Edwards, Wabash | 63 min |
| Jun 12, 8:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Wabash | 46 min |
| Jun 12, 8:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Saline | 44 min |
| Jun 12, 8:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Saline | 49 min |
| Jun 12, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Union | 43 min |
| Jun 12, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Williamson | 49 min |
| Jun 12, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Alexander, Pulaski | 48 min |
| Jun 12, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Gallatin | 49 min |
| Jun 12, 10:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Massac | 58 min |
| Jun 12, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Pike | 55 min |
| Jun 12, 8:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Pike | 35 min |
| Jun 12, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Vanderburgh, Warrick | 62 min |
| Jun 12, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Spencer | 60 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.