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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Paducah, KY

June 26, 1994Calloway County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Jun 26, 1994, 4:38 PM CDT for Calloway County, Kentucky. It was in force for 37 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 26, 1994, 4:38 PM CDT (21:38 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 1994, 5:15 PM CDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Calloway County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 63 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, Paducah/Barkley, KY at 12:00Z on 1994-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 7 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Paducah/Barkley, KY at 12:00Z on 1994-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 381 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
7 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
830 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
381 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
340 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.7

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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
Jun 26, 6:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHBollinger40 min

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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.