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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 170, NWS Paducah, KY

July 23, 1995Cape Girardeau County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 1995, 1:40 PM CDT for Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. It was in force for 35 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 23, 1995, 1:40 PM CDT (18:40 UTC)
Expired
Jul 23, 1995, 2:15 PM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Cape Girardeau County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 285 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 1995-07-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2030 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 1995-07-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 31 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
2030 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1078 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 23, 3:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHBallard25 min
Jul 23, 3:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHLivingston27 min
Jul 23, 4:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCaldwell, Crittenden, Lyon57 min
Jul 23, 3:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHAlexander, Pulaski26 min
Jul 23, 2:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHWayne37 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.