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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Paducah, KY

May 14, 1995New Madrid County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1995, 9:47 PM CDT for New Madrid County, Missouri. It was in force for 43 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 14, 1995, 9:47 PM CDT (02:47 UTC)
Expired
May 14, 1995, 10:30 PM CDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties

County New Madrid County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 198 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, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 1995-05-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3293 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 1995-05-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
3293 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-71 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1194 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
108 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
2.2

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The text

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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, 8:56 PM CDT, 51 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 14, 10:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHFulton32 min
May 14, 10:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHGraves50 min
May 14, 11:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCalloway60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 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.