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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Paducah, KY

May 13, 1995Alexander County, Pulaski County, Illinois

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 1995, 4:26 AM CDT for Alexander County, Pulaski County, Illinois. It was in force for 49 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 13, 1995, 4:26 AM CDT (09:26 UTC)
Expired
May 13, 1995, 5:15 AM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Alexander County, IL, Pulaski County, IL

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 264 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 1995-05-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-05-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 43 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1730 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
157 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KPAH 130928
SVRPAH
ILC003-153-131015-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
426 AM CDT SAT MAY 13 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  515 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTH ILLINOIS
 
   ...SOUTHERN ALEXANDER COUNTY...PULASKI COUNTY
 
AT 4:25 DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO
SOUTHERN ALEXANDER COUNTY NEAR CAIRO. THE STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE
LARGE HAIL. THE COMMUNITIES OF CAIRO...MOUND CITY AND GRAND CHAIN ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 13, 5:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHMassac28 min
May 13, 5:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHMassac, Pope21 min

Nearby

Severe 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.