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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Paducah, KY

May 14, 1995Graves County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1995, 1:45 AM CDT for Graves County, Kentucky. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 14, 1995, 1:45 AM CDT (06:45 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 1995, 2:15 AM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Graves County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 195 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3482 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 806 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 291 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 359 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 6.4
Supercell composite: 30.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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

Local storm report, May 14, 1:36 AM CDT, 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
135 AM CDT SUN MAY 14 1995

TIME (CDT) ...CITY LOCATION...    STATE
           ...COUNTY LOCATION...            ...EVENT/REMARKS...

1250 AM    N OF PRINCETON            KY   TORNADO  HAIL
05/14/95   NORTHERN CALDWELL              "TREES DOWN AND POWER LINES
                                          SHEERED ALL OVER THE PLACE"
                                          NO INJURIES REPORTED

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Local storm report, May 14, 1:38 AM CDT, 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
135 AM CDT SUN MAY 14 1995

TIME (CDT) ...CITY LOCATION...    STATE
           ...COUNTY LOCATION...            ...EVENT/REMARKS...

1250 AM    N OF PRINCETON            KY   TORNADO  HAIL
05/14/95   NORTHERN CALDWELL              TREES DOWN AND POWER LINES
                                          SHEERED OFF - INDICATIVE OF
                                          TORNADO DAMAGE
                                          NO INJURIES REPORTED

DLH

Local storm report, May 14, 1:41 AM CDT, 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
145 AM CDT SUN MAY 14 1995

TIME (CDT) ...CITY LOCATION...    STATE
           ...COUNTY LOCATION...            ...EVENT
/REMARKS...

1250 AM    N OF PRINCETON            KY   TREES DOWN AND POWER LINES
05/14/95   NORTHERN CALDWELL              SHEERED OFF

DLH
...CORRECTED WORDING OF REPORT...

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 13, 11:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	McCracken	32 min
May 13, 11:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Livingston	43 min
May 14, 12:10 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Crittenden, Livingston	35 min
May 14, 1:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Fulton, Hickman	51 min
May 14, 2:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Calloway, Trigg	52 min
May 14, 4:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Hickman	34 min
May 14, 4:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Graves	41 min
May 14, 5:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Trigg	33 min
May 13, 11:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Saline	28 min
May 14, 2:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Saline, Williamson	40 min
May 14, 12:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	New Madrid	34 min
May 14, 1:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Mississippi	38 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1995 Every 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.