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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Paducah, KY

May 17, 1999Caldwell County, Hopkins County, Webster County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1999, 4:36 PM CDT for Caldwell County, Hopkins County, Webster County, Kentucky. It was in force for 64 min. 2 reports 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
May 17, 1999, 4:36 PM CDT (21:36 UTC)
Expired
May 17, 1999, 5:40 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Caldwell County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Webster County, KY

The radar

The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 17, 5:00 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 50Princeton, KYPower lines and a few trees were down.
May 17, 5:25 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 50Madisonville, KYA few trees and power lines were down.

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
May 17, 3:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 324 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 1999-05-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 8 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 1999-05-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -19 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 kmRMLM
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
8 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-466 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1464 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 17, 3:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHBallard, Carlisle57 min
May 17, 3:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHHickman57 min
May 17, 3:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHMcCracken58 min
May 17, 3:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHGraves50 min
May 17, 4:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHLivingston47 min
May 17, 4:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHMarshall47 min
May 17, 4:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCrittenden, Lyon53 min
May 17, 4:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHHenderson, Union47 min
May 17, 5:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHDaviess, McLean58 min
May 17, 5:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHHenderson16 min
May 17, 5:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHHopkins, Webster24 min
May 17, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHDaviess30 min
May 17, 2:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHJackson58 min
May 17, 3:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHAlexander, Union51 min
May 17, 3:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHPulaski61 min
May 17, 3:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHJohnson, Williamson63 min
May 17, 3:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHPerry63 min
May 17, 3:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHFranklin58 min
May 17, 3:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHPope, Saline64 min
May 17, 4:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHWhite51 min
May 17, 4:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHWayne45 min
May 17, 4:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHEdwards, Wabash49 min
May 17, 1:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCarter55 min
May 17, 1:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHWayne58 min
May 17, 2:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHRipley57 min
May 17, 2:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHBollinger58 min
May 17, 2:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHPerry46 min
May 17, 2:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHStoddard50 min
May 17, 3:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCape Girardeau, Scott42 min
May 17, 3:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHMississippi61 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.