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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Paducah, KY

August 9, 1994Ballard County, McCracken County, Kentucky; Massac County, Illinois

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 1994, 2:19 AM CDT for Ballard County, McCracken County, Kentucky; Massac County, Illinois. It was in force for 41 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 9, 1994, 2:19 AM CDT (07:19 UTC)
Expired
Aug 9, 1994, 3:00 AM CDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Massac County, IL, Ballard County, KY, McCracken County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 225 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1994-08-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1103 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1994-08-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 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
1103 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1278 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 9, 1:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHJackson, Williamson46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1994Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 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.