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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Paducah, KY

May 16, 1995Cape Girardeau County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1995, 9:17 AM CDT for Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. It was in force for 43 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 16, 1995, 9:17 AM CDT (14:17 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 1995, 10:00 AM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Cape Girardeau County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 285 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: 2309 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -81 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 625 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -33 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 16, 8:59 AM CDT, 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
858 AM CDT TUE MAY 16 1995

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

841 AM     JONESBORO                 IL   3/4 INCH HAIL
05/16/95   UNION                          REPORT BY COUNTY SHERIFF

855 AM     CARBONDALE                IL   PEA SIZE HAIL
05/16/95   JACKSON                        FROM CARBONDALE WEATHER

                                       OBSERVER
SHANKLIN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 16, 10:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ballard	68 min
May 16, 10:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	McCracken	59 min
May 16, 10:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Carlisle, Graves	51 min
May 16, 10:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Livingston	45 min
May 16, 10:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Marshall	55 min
May 16, 10:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Lyon	55 min
May 16, 8:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Union	43 min
May 16, 8:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jackson	41 min
May 16, 9:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Union	43 min
May 16, 9:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Alexander	48 min
May 16, 9:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Johnson, Pope	46 min
May 16, 9:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Pulaski	54 min
May 16, 9:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	New Madrid, Scott, Stoddard	46 min
May 16, 10:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Mississippi	41 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 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.