Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1999, 4:18 PM CDT for Hickman County, Kentucky. It was in force for 27 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
- May 5, 1999, 4:18 PM CDT (21:18 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 1999, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hickman County, KY
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -256 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1942 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Hickman | 20 min |
| May 5, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle, McCracken | 57 min |
| May 5, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Calloway, Trigg | 49 min |
| May 5, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Webster | 28 min |
| May 5, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Daviess, Henderson, McLean | 43 min |
| May 5, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian | 51 min |
| May 5, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Daviess | 33 min |
| May 5, 1:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Jefferson | 35 min |
| May 5, 2:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Wayne | 16 min |
| May 5, 2:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Johnson, Williamson | 35 min |
| May 5, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Wayne | 15 min |
| May 5, 2:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Williamson | 51 min |
| May 5, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Saline | 43 min |
| May 4, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Stoddard | 30 min |
| May 5, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Butler, Wayne | 32 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999
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.