Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1995, 6:18 PM CDT for Jackson County, Illinois. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1995, 6:18 PM CDT (23:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1995, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 272 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.
- 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
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 1:52 PM CDT, 4 hours 26 minutes before
KYZ001>013-082000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 152 PM CDT THU JUN 8 1995 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN KENTUCKY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVED EAST AWAY FROM WESTERN KENTUCKY...SO THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR WESTERN KENTUCKY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. HOWEVER...THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF MORE SEVERE STORMS DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. REMAIN ALERT TO THE LATEST WEATHER BULLETINS FOR ANY POSSIBLE WATCHES OR WARNINGS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF SOUTHERN MISSOURI ...FROM POPLAR BLUFF WEST...UNTIL 9 PM. YORK
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 1:53 PM CDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before
KYZ001>013-082000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 152 PM CDT THU JUN 8 1995 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN KENTUCKY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVED EAST AWAY FROM WESTERN KENTUCKY...SO THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR WESTERN KENTUCKY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. HOWEVER...THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF MORE SEVERE STORMS DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. REMAIN ALERT TO THE LATEST WEATHER BULLETINS FOR ANY POSSIBLE WATCHES OR WARNINGS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF SOUTHERN MISSOURI ...FROM POPLAR BLUFF WEST...UNTIL 9 PM. YORK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 9:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Franklin, Williamson | 30 min |
| Jun 8, 9:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Hamilton, Saline | 40 min |
| Jun 8, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Union | 40 min |
| Jun 8, 6:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Johnson, Pulaski, Union | 33 min |
| Jun 8, 6:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Massac | 33 min |
| Jun 8, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Wayne | 49 min |
| Jun 8, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Scott | 42 min |
| Jun 8, 5:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Wayne | 26 min |
| Jun 8, 5:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Bollinger | 33 min |
| Jun 8, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Stoddard | 40 min |
| Jun 8, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Cape Girardeau, Scott | 45 min |
| Jun 8, 6:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Scott | 28 min |
Nearby
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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.