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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Paducah, KY

June 7, 1995Franklin County, Illinois

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1995, 3:20 PM CDT for Franklin County, Illinois. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 7, 1995, 3:20 PM CDT (20:20 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 1995, 4:15 PM CDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Franklin County, IL

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 242 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, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 1995-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1189 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, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 1995-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 129 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
1189 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
648 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
129 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
123 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.4

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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, Jun 7, 1:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
PRELIMINARY STORM REPORT...COR
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN
847 PM CDT TUE JUN 6 1995

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

0410 PM    NEAR ROUTE 416            KY   .75 INCH HAIL. LARGE LIMBS
06/06/95   EASTERN HENDERSON              DOWN.

0415 PM    PANTHER                   KY   .75 INCH HAIL. LARGE LIMBS
06/06/95   DAVIESS                        DOWN.

0419 PM    HOPKINSVILLE              KY   .75 INCH HAIL.
06/06/95   CHRISTIAN

0516 PM    LEWISBURG                 KY   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/06/95   LOGAN

0525 PM                              KY   TOP OF TREE DOWN AND
06/06/95   SOUTHERN LOGAN                 LIMBS DOWN COVERING ROAD.

0540 PM    LEWISPORT                 KY   TREES DOWN OVER ROUTE 324
06/06/95   HANCOCK                        NEAR LEWISPORT.

0553 PM    BOWLING GREEN             KY   1.00 INCH HAIL.
06/06/95   WARREN

0632 PM    NEAR LEITCHFIELD          KY   WIND DAMAGE TO AN APARTMENT
06/06/95   GRAYSON                        BUILDING UNDER
                                          CONSTRUCTION.

0642 PM    BROWNSVILLE               KY   TREE BLOWN OVER INTO A
06/06/95   EDMONSON                       PICK-UP TRUCK WITH ONE
                                          OCCUPANT. THE INDIVIDUAL
                                          RECEIVED MINOR INJURIES.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 4:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHBallard, Carlisle56 min
Jun 7, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHHickman61 min
Jun 7, 5:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHGraves29 min
Jun 7, 3:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHJackson55 min
Jun 7, 3:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHUnion, Williamson55 min
Jun 7, 3:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHJohnson55 min
Jun 7, 4:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHMassac, Pulaski44 min
Jun 7, 4:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHPope44 min
Jun 7, 4:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHFranklin, Hamilton68 min
Jun 7, 3:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHBollinger, Wayne58 min
Jun 7, 5:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHButler, Wayne60 min
Jun 7, 5:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHNew Madrid48 min
Jun 7, 5:52 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHButler38 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 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.