Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 23, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Feb 27, 1999, 1:48 PM CST for Perry County, Missouri. 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
- Feb 27, 1999, 1:48 PM CST (19:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 27, 1999, 2:15 PM CST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Perry County, MO
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:51 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 12:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 292 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
- 107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -160 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 635 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 275 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 325 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 2:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Jackson | 40 min |
| Feb 27, 2:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Franklin | 43 min |
| Feb 27, 2:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Hamilton | 35 min |
| Feb 27, 2:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Johnson, Union | 40 min |
| Feb 27, 1:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Perry | 42 min |
| Feb 27, 1:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Wayne | 23 min |
| Feb 27, 2:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carter | 44 min |
| Feb 27, 2:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Bollinger | 36 min |
| Feb 27, 3:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Butler | 40 min |
| Feb 27, 3:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Stoddard | 32 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.