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Tornado Warning 67, NWS Paducah, KY

June 22, 1998Gibson County, Indiana

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Jun 22, 1998, 10:03 PM CDT for Gibson County, Indiana. It was in force for 37 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 22, 1998, 10:03 PM CDT (03:03 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 1998, 10:40 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Gibson County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 222 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: 394 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 984 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 144 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 283 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 10.5

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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 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 Jun 22, 1:10 PM CDT, 8 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 1:10 PM CDT, 8 hours 53 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
110 PM CDT MON JUN 22 1998

SHORT TERM CONCERN IS CONVECTION ALONG OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING. LONGER TERM FORECAST CONCERN WILL BE HIGH
HEAT INDICIES.

12Z ETA MODEL INDICATES A SHORTWAVE WILL CROSS THE MID MISSISSIPPI
VALLEY LATE THIS AFTERNOON...EXITING THE LOWER OHIO VALLEY
OVERNIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED ALONG AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM
NEAR CGI TO MVN SINCE 17Z. INCREASING UPPER SUPPORT DURING THE DAY
COMBINED WITH FURTHER DIURNAL HEATING SHOULD RESULT IN A FEW SEVERE
REPORTS BY EVENING. AS SHORTWAVE EXITS THE REGION THIS EVENING...
TSTMS SHOULD DECREASE.

MID LEVEL RIDGE IS PROGGED TO BUILD OVER THE FA LATE TONIGHT AND
TUESDAY. 700 MB WARMING ASSOCIATED WITH THIS FEATURE SHOULD CAP OFF
MOST OR ALL CONVECTION. ETA 2 METER TEMPS AND MOS GUIDANCE INDICATE
TEMPS WILL RISE WELL INTO THE 90S OVER SOUTH PORTIONS OF THE FA
TUESDAY. HEAT INDEX VALUES MAY REACH ADVISORY CRITERIA DURING THE
AFTERNOON AT A FEW SITES.

MY

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 22, 9:34 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
934 PM CDT MON JUN 22 1998

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

0844 PM    CISNE                     IL   TORNADO
06/22/98   WAYNE                          AT LEAST 3 CONFIRMED
                                          TOUCHDOWNS ACROSS NORTHERN
                                          WAYNE COUNTY CONFIRMED BY
                                          EMA OFFICIALS.  THESE
                                          TOUCHDOWNS WERE IN THE
                                          CISNE...GEFF AREAS.

0903 PM    MT ERIE                   IL   .75 INCH HAIL
06/22/98   WAYNE                          REPORTED BY WABASH COUNTY
                                          EMA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 22, 10:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Gibson	27 min
Jun 22, 11:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Gibson	50 min
Jun 22, 11:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Pike	48 min
Jun 22, 11:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Vanderburgh, Warrick	39 min
Jun 23, 12:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Spencer	35 min
Jun 23, 12:43 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Vanderburgh, Warrick	3 hr
Jun 23, 1:15 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Gibson	2 hr
Jun 23, 1:31 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Spencer	119 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.