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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Paducah, KY

May 13, 1995Carlisle County, Graves County, Hickman County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 1995, 4:48 AM CDT for Carlisle County, Graves County, Hickman County, Kentucky. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 13, 1995, 4:48 AM CDT (09:48 UTC)
Expired
May 13, 1995, 5:15 AM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Carlisle County, KY, Graves County, KY, Hickman County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 214 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

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 13, 5:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHBallard, McCracken28 min
May 13, 5:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHLivingston, McCracken, Marshall21 min
May 13, 5:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHLyon, Marshall, Trigg31 min
May 13, 6:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCrittenden, Livingston42 min
May 13, 6:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCaldwell, Trigg30 min
May 13, 4:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHAlexander, Pulaski49 min
May 13, 5:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHMassac, Pope21 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 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.