Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 20, 1995, 3:33 PM CST for Lyon County, Marshall County, Kentucky. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 20, 1995, 3:33 PM CST (21:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 20, 1995, 4:15 PM CST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1885 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPAH 202136 RRA SVRPAH KYC143-157-202215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 333 PM CST MON MAR 20 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST KENTUCKY ...LYON COUNTY...EASTERN MARSHALL COUNTY THE BRIENSBURG FIRE CHIEF REPORTED GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AT 3:30 PM CST. AT 3:30 PM THE DOPPLER RADAR IN PADUCAH SHOWED THE STORM LOCATED OVER SOUTHEAST MARSHALL COUNTY NEAR KENTUCKY LAKE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THE STORM IS EXPECTED TO PASS OVER SOUTHERN LYON COUNTY...INCLUDING THE THE LAKE BARKLEY AREA. FISHERMEN AND OTHERS ENGAGED IN OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES ON THE LAKES SHOULD MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE. RESIDENTS OF THE TOWNS OF CONFEDERATE AND LAMASCO SHOULD EXPECT THESE STORM CONDITIONS BEFORE 4:15 PM. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A ShTRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. &
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, Mar 20, 3:08 PM CST, 25 minutes before
KYZ001-002-003-004-005-006-007-008-009-010-011-012-013-202215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 308 PM CST MON MAR 20 1995 AT 3:00 PM CST DOPPLER RADAR IN PADUCAH SHOWED A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR MARION KENTUCKY SOUTHWEST TO JUST NORTH OF CALVERT CITY KENTUCKY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. MARION POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN IN SOUTHERN CRITTENDON COUNTY...NEAR THE TOWN OF FRANCES. THE STORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO WEBSTER...HOPKINS AND CALDWELL COUNTIES BEFORE 3:30 PM CST AND WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF MADISONVILLE..DIXON AND PRINCETON. SMALL HAIL...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS TO NEAR 45 MPH ARE POSSIBLE AS THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE..PREFERABLY A BASEMENT OR THE GROUND FLOOR OF A REINFORCED BUILDING. RELAY REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR LOCAL POLICE OR SHERRIFFS OFFICE. SDB &
Special weather statement, Mar 20, 3:11 PM CST, 22 minutes before
KYZ001-002-003-004-005-006-007-008-009-010-011-012-013-202215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 308 PM CST MON MAR 20 1995 AT 3:00 PM CST DOPPLER RADAR IN PADUCAH SHOWED A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR MARION KENTUCKY SOUTHWEST TO JUST NORTH OF CALVERT CITY KENTUCKY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. MARION POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN IN SOUTHERN CRITTENDON COUNTY...NEAR THE TOWN OF FRANCES. THE STORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO WEBSTER...HOPKINS AND CALDWELL COUNTIES BEFORE 3:30 PM CST AND WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF MADISONVILLE..DIXON AND PRINCETON. SMALL HAIL...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS TO NEAR 45 MPH ARE POSSIBLE AS THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE..PREFERABLY A BASEMENT OR THE GROUND FLOOR OF A REINFORCED BUILDING. RELAY REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR LOCAL POLICE OR SHER(RIFFS OFFICE. SDB &
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.