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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Paducah, KY

May 14, 1995Graves County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1995, 4:49 AM CDT for Graves County, Kentucky. It was in force for 41 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 14, 1995, 4:49 AM CDT (09:49 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 1995, 5:30 AM CDT
In force: 41 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, 9.8 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

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

000 
TTAA00 KPAH 140950
SVRPAH
KYC083-141030-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
449 AM CDT SUN MAY 14 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST KENTUCKY
 
   ...GRAVES COUNTY
 
DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN THE EASTERN PART
OF HICKMAN COUNTY NEAR THE TOWN OF BEULAH. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST
AT 40 MPH AND WILL BE NEAR THE MAYFIELD AREA BY 500 AM CDT.
THE PUBLIC REPORTED DIME SIZED HAIL IN THE SHILO AND BEULAH AREAS AT
445 AM CDT.
 
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
 
 
 
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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, 3 hours 13 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

DL

Local storm report, May 14, 1:38 AM CDT, 3 hours 11 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, 3 hours 8 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...

Local storm report, May 14, 2:27 AM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before

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

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

0220 AM    MURRAY                    KY   WINDOWS BLOWN OUT OF A STORE
05/14/95   CALLOWAY

MY

0402 PM
05/16/95

 ENTER NAME

Local storm report, May 14, 4:36 AM CDT, 13 minutes before

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

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

1000 PM    JONESBORO                 IL   QUARTER SIZE HAIL
05/13/95   UNION

1245 AM    FREDONIA                  KY   POSSIBLE TORNADO...NUMEROUS
05/14/95   CALDWELL                       TREES DOWN AND POWER POLES
                                          SNAPPED. ROADS BLOCKED.

0103 AM    MARSTON                   MO   SEVERAL COTTON TRAILERS
05/14/95   NEW MADRID                     BLOWN AROUND...ONE ACROSS A
                                          HIGHWAY.

0245 AM    CADIZ                     KY   TREES DOWN
05/14/95   TRIGG

0200 AM    CUBA                      KY   TREES DOWN ON HOUSES
05/14/95   GRAVES

0245 AM    MURRAY                    KY   PART OF MOBILE HOME TORN OFF
05/14/95   CALLOWAY               b        ...TREES DOWN...ROOF OFF

YORK

 ENTER NAME

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, 1:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Graves	30 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, 5:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Trigg	33 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.