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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Paducah, KY

May 18, 1995Cape Girardeau County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1995, 1:15 PM CDT for Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 18, 1995, 1:15 PM CDT (18:15 UTC)
Expired: May 18, 1995, 2:00 PM CDT
In force: 45 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, 6.3 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: 2951 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 552 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 205 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.0
Supercell composite: 7.0

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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 18, 10:18 AM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1017 AM CDT THU MAY 18 1995

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

1145 PM    BENTON                    IL   SEVERAL TREES DOWN ACROSS
05/17/95   FRANKLIN                       ROAD

0050 AM    CAPE GIRARDEAU            MO   ROOF BLOWN OFF TRAILER 1054
05/18/95   CAPE GIRARDEAU                 COUNTY LINE ROAD

0105 AM    CAPE GIRARDEAU            MO   NUMEROUS TREES REPORTED DOWN
05/18/95   CAPE GIRARDEAU                 IN THE COUNTY

0115 AM    COUNTY LINE ROAD          IL   NUMEROUS TREES DOWN ACROSS THE
05/18/95   ALEXANDER                      ROAD
0150 AM    UNIONVILLE                IL   SEVERAL TREES DOWN SOUTH
05/18/95   MASSAC                         OF UNIONVILLE

0200 AM    ELIZABETHTOWN             IL    TWO TREES DOWN ON ROADWAY
05/18/95   HARDIN                          4 MILES NE OF ELIZABETHTOWN

0225 AM    BROOKPORT                 IL    NUMEROUS TREES DOWN ON POWER
05/18/95   MASSAC                          LINES AND ROADWAYS

0230 AM    BARDWELL                  KY    SEVERAL TREES DOWN ON ROADWAYS
05/18/95   CARLISLE                        AND POWER LINES

0240 AM    NEW LIBERTY               KY    SEVERAL TREES DOWN ALONG THE
05/18/95   LIVINGSTON                      OHIO RIVER

0310 AM    EDDYVILLE AND FREDONIA    KY   NUMEROUS TREES DOWN ON COUNTY
05/18/95   LYON                           ROADS

0315 AM    DALTON                    KY   NUMEROUS TREES DOWN
05/18/95   CRITTENDON

0315 AM    MARION                    KY   SEVERAL TREES DOWN SOUTH
05/18/95   CRITTENDON                     OF MARIONl

Local storm report, May 18, 10:43 AM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1040 AM CDT THU MAY 18 1995

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

0315 AM    DRAFFENVILLE              KY   TWO TREES DOWN EAST OF
05/18/95   MARSHALL                       DRAFFENVILLE

0430 AM    CALVERT CITY              KY   LARGE LMBS DOWN 1 MILE SOUTH
05/18/95   MARSHALL                       OF CALVERT CITY

0430 AM    HARDIN                    KY   WIND GUST 55-60 MPH
05/18/95   MARSHALL

1230-230 AM FRANKLIN COUNTY          IL   NUMEROUS ROADS FLOODED ACROSS
05/18/95                                  COUNTY

0100-300 AM CAPE GIRARDEAU COUNTY     MO    3 INCHES OF RAIN AT CAPE
05/18/95                                    GIRARDEAU AND SEVERAL COUNTY
                                            ROADS COVERED WITH WATER

SAME AS     BOLLINGER COUNTY          MO    A FEW COUNTY ROADS CLOSED DUE
ABOVE                                       TO HIGH WATER

SAME AS     JACKSON COUNTY            IL    SEVERAL ROADS CLOSED DUE TO
ABOVE                                       HIGH WATER

SAME AS     SALINE COUNTY             IL    SEVERAL GRAVEL ROADS UNDER
ABOVE
                                            WATER AND CLOSED BRIEFLY

SAME AS     HAMILTON COUNTY           IL    PARTS OF HWY 242 N OF
ABOVE                                       MCLEANSBORO AND HWY 14 E OF
                                            MCLEANSBORO CLOSED BECAUSE
                                            OF HIGH WATER
SAME AS     WILLIAMSON COUNTY         IL    SEVERAL ROADS WATER COVERED
ABOVE
                     ***FLOOD EVENTS ON 05/18/95***

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, 2:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Lyon	72 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, 1:26 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.