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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 148, NWS Paducah, KY

June 20, 1995Ballard County, Livingston County, McCracken County, Kentucky; Massac County, Pulaski County, Illinois

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 1995, 10:22 PM CDT for Ballard County, Livingston County, McCracken County, Kentucky; Massac County, Pulaski County, Illinois. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 20, 1995, 10:22 PM CDT (03:22 UTC)
Expired
Jun 20, 1995, 11:15 PM CDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Massac County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Ballard County, KY, Livingston County, KY, McCracken County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 225 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 1995-06-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 864 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 1995-06-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 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
864 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
947 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 8:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHHamilton48 min
Jun 20, 9:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHAlexander52 min
Jun 20, 9:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHFranklin, Saline, Williamson52 min
Jun 20, 10:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHJohnson, Pope42 min
Jun 20, 10:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHHardin42 min
Jun 20, 10:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHAlexander40 min
Jun 21, 6:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHPulaski, Union41 min
Jun 21, 6:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHJohnson32 min
Jun 20, 8:15 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHButler30 min
Jun 20, 9:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHNew Madrid, Scott, Stoddard48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1995Severe 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.