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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 1994, 6:29 AM CDT for Cape Girardeau County, Missouri; Jackson County, Union County, Illinois. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 15, 1994, 6:29 AM CDT (11:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 1994, 7:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jackson County, IL, Union County, IL, Cape Girardeau County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 00:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2422 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 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.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 15, 6:14 AM CDT, 15 minutes before
KYZ001>013-ILZ081-082-084>086-088>094-MOZ086-087-100-109>115-121230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 615 AM CDT FRI APR 15 1994 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND MOST OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNTIL 10 AM... AT 610 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT PADUCAH SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE NORTHWEST PART OF THE TRI STATE. THE STORMS EXTENDED FROM THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF JEFFERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS SOUTHWEST TO WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGER STORMS COULD PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...BRIEF HEAV Y RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTINING. IF A STORM APPROACHES MOVE TO AN INDOOR SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. LINDSTROM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 11:06 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Pemiscot | 19 min |
| Apr 15, 7:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Ballard, McCracken | 64 min |
| Apr 15, 7:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Livingston, Marshall | 50 min |
| Apr 15, 8:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Lyon | 65 min |
| Apr 15, 8:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Graves | 53 min |
| Apr 15, 6:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Franklin, Williamson | 50 min |
| Apr 15, 6:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Johnson, Saline | 61 min |
| Apr 15, 6:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Hamilton | 61 min |
| Apr 15, 7:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Pope | 64 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 1994Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994
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.