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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 177, NWS Paducah, KY

July 28, 1995Lyon County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1995, 6:18 AM CDT for Lyon County, Kentucky. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

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The facts

Issued
Jul 28, 1995, 6:18 AM CDT (11:18 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 1995, 6:45 AM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Lyon County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 165 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 1995-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1136 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 1995-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1136 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
896 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 8:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCaldwell41 min
Jul 28, 8:29 AM CDTTornado WarningPAHCaldwell31 min
Jul 28, 8:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHLyon, Trigg55 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.