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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Paducah, KY

May 16, 1995Jackson County, Illinois

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1995, 8:49 AM CDT for Jackson County, Illinois. It was in force for 41 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 16, 1995, 8:49 AM CDT (13:49 UTC)
Expired
May 16, 1995, 9:30 AM CDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Jackson County, IL

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 272 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, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 1995-05-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 65 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, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 1995-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 218 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
65 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-362 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
907 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
218 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
266 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.4

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 10:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHBallard68 min
May 16, 10:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHMcCracken59 min
May 16, 10:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCarlisle, Graves51 min
May 16, 10:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHLivingston45 min
May 16, 10:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHMarshall55 min
May 16, 10:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHLyon55 min
May 16, 8:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHUnion43 min
May 16, 9:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHUnion43 min
May 16, 9:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHAlexander48 min
May 16, 9:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHJohnson, Pope46 min
May 16, 9:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHPulaski54 min
May 16, 9:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCape Girardeau43 min
May 16, 9:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHNew Madrid, Scott, Stoddard46 min
May 16, 10:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHMississippi41 min

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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.