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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Paducah, KY

May 28, 1995Ballard County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1995, 9:21 PM CDT for Ballard County, Kentucky. It was in force for 15 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 28, 1995, 9:21 PM CDT (02:21 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 1995, 9:36 PM CDT
In force
15 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Ballard County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 238 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 1995-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1860 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1995-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 103 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
1860 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
926 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
113 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.8
Supercell composite
4.2

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The text

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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

Local storm report, May 28, 7:04 PM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
700 PM CDT SUN MAY 28 1995

TIME (CDT) ...CITY LACATION...    STATE
           ...COUNTY LOCATION...            ...EVENT/REMARKS...

0655 PM    COONS CHAPEL            KY       1.75 INCH HAIL
05/28/95   LIVINGSTON CO.

KEYSOR
Local storm report, May 28, 7:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
800 PM CDT SUN MAY 28 1995

TIME (CDT) ...CITY LACATION...    STATE
           ...COUNTY LOCATION...            ...EVENT/REMARKS...

07j33 PM    EDDYVILLE               KY       .75 INCH HAIL
05/28/95   LYON CO.

SPODEN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 7:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHLyon30 min
May 28, 8:15 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHCaldwell18 min
May 28, 9:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHMcCracken39 min
May 28, 10:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCaldwell42 min
May 28, 9:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHMassac32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 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.