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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Paducah, KY

June 8, 1995Hamilton County, Saline County, Illinois

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1995, 9:35 AM CDT for Hamilton County, Saline County, Illinois. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 1995, 9:35 AM CDT (14:35 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1995, 10:15 AM CDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Hamilton County, IL, Saline County, IL

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 248 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 1995-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 414 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 1995-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 74 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
414 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-381 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
553 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
118 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.9

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 9:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHFranklin, Williamson30 min
Jun 8, 6:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHJackson42 min
Jun 8, 6:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHUnion40 min
Jun 8, 6:57 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHJohnson, Pulaski, Union33 min
Jun 8, 6:57 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHMassac33 min
Jun 8, 5:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHWayne49 min
Jun 8, 5:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHScott42 min
Jun 8, 5:34 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHWayne26 min
Jun 8, 5:42 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHBollinger33 min
Jun 8, 5:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHStoddard40 min
Jun 8, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCape Girardeau, Scott45 min
Jun 8, 6:32 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHScott28 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.