Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Paducah, KY

March 6, 1995Alexander County, Illinois; Scott County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 6, 1995, 10:04 PM CST for Alexander County, Illinois; Scott County, Missouri. It was in force for 29 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 6, 1995, 10:04 PM CST (04:04 UTC)
Expired
Mar 6, 1995, 10:33 PM CST
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Alexander County, IL, Scott County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 259 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, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 1995-03-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 305 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, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 1995-03-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 313 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
305 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-124 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
558 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
313 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
367 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 1995Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.