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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Paducah, KY

May 18, 1995Caldwell County, Lyon County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1995, 2:48 AM CDT for Caldwell County, Lyon County, Kentucky. It was in force for 72 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 18, 1995, 2:48 AM CDT (07:48 UTC)
Expired: May 18, 1995, 4:00 AM CDT
In force: 72 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Caldwell County, KY, Lyon County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 162 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: 916 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 935 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 171 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 4.9

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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

Special weather statement, May 17, 8:58 PM CDT, 5 hours 50 minutes before

INZ067>069-081>083-085>089-ILZ067-068-071>073-076>078-083-087-
KYZ014>023-026-027-061>063-070>075-150700-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...SPELLING CORRECTION...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN
811 PM CDT WED MAY 17 1995

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #424 HAS BEEN CANCELLED...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR WESTERN KENTUCKY HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
A FLASH FLOOD WATCH WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT FOR
ENTIRE TRI STATE AREA.

CARICO/LAMBERTY

Local storm report, May 18, 12:44 AM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 18, 1:28 AM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 18, 1:34 AM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 18, 1:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ballard	53 min
May 18, 1:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Carlisle, McCracken	58 min
May 18, 2:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Livingston	59 min
May 18, 2:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Marshall	63 min
May 18, 4:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Marshall	19 min
May 18, 2:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Fulton	27 min
May 18, 2:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ballard	39 min
May 18, 2:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Hickman	29 min
May 18, 2:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Graves	38 min
May 18, 2:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Hickman	12 min
May 18, 3:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Lyon, Marshall	51 min
May 18, 3:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Calloway	51 min
May 18, 3:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Calloway, Graves	47 min
May 18, 3:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Fulton	47 min
May 18, 3:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Trigg	55 min
May 18, 3:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Trigg	35 min
May 18, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Calloway	30 min
May 17, 11:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Franklin	28 min
May 17, 11:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Hamilton	35 min
May 18, 12:05 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Franklin	3 hr
May 18, 12:17 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Jackson, Williamson	3 hr
May 18, 12:17 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Hamilton, Saline	3 hr
May 18, 12:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Hamilton	32 min
May 18, 12:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Alexander, Union	59 min
May 18, 1:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Johnson, Massac, Pulaski	58 min
May 18, 1:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Pope, Saline	61 min
May 18, 1:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Hardin	52 min
May 18, 2:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Saline	59 min
May 18, 1:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jackson	29 min
May 18, 1:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Alexander, Union	44 min
May 18, 2:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Johnson	35 min
May 18, 12:17 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Cape Girardeau	3 hr
May 18, 12:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	New Madrid	69 min
May 18, 1:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Mississippi	42 min
May 18, 1:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	New Madrid, Stoddard	38 min
May 18, 1:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Cape Girardeau	45 min
May 18, 1:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Cape Girardeau, Scott	34 min
May 18, 1:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Mississippi, New Madrid	34 min

Nearby

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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.