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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Paducah, KY

May 16, 1995Scott County, Missouri; Alexander County, Illinois

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1995, 9:27 AM CDT for Scott County, Missouri; Alexander County, Illinois. It was in force for 48 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 16, 1995, 9:27 AM CDT (14:27 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 1995, 10:15 AM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Alexander County, IL, Scott County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 259 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

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

000 
TTAA00 KPAH 161427
SVRPAH
ILC003-MOC201-161515-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
927 AM CDT TUE MAY 16 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTH ILLINOIS
 
   ...ALEXANDER COUNTY
 
 
IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI
 
   ...SCOTT COUNTY
 
AT 923 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE STORM 10 MILES SOUTH OF
CAPE GIRARDEAU MISSOURI. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. IT
WILL PASS NEAR BENTON MISSOURI AND OLIVE BRANCH ILLINOIS BETWEEN 930 AND
10 AM CDT.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
|PGW

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, 28 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

Local storm report, May 16, 9:18 AM CDT, 9 minutes before

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

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

91h7 AM     FRUITLAND                 MO   GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL
05/16/95   CAPE GIRARDEAU                 REPORT FROM TV METEOROLOGIST

SHANKLIN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 16, 8:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Cape Girardeau	43 min
May 16, 9:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Cape Girardeau	43 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
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, 9:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Johnson, Pope	46 min
May 16, 9:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Pulaski	54 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1995 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 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.