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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Paducah, KY

June 8, 1995Wayne County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 1995, 5:34 PM CDT for Wayne County, Missouri. It was in force for 26 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 1995, 5:34 PM CDT (22:34 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1995, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Wayne County, MO

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 8, 5:52 PM CDTTornado F0Clubb, MOA brief tornado lasting about one minute damaged a pole barn in Clubb. A one-room attachment to the barn was blown off. Trees were blown down from Clubb to two miles east of Clubb.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 258 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 1995-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2724 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 1995-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -45 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2724 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-125 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
655 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-37 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 082234
TORPAH
MOC223-082300-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
534 PM CDT THU JUN 8 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI
 
   ...WAYNE COUNTY
 
THE WAYNE COUNTY CIVIL DEFENSE REPORTS A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR THE JUNCTION
OF HIGHWAYS 34 AND 67 NEAR SILVA. DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR IN PADUCAH ALSO
SHOWED INDICATIONS OF A TORNADO IN THIS AREA. THE STORM IS MOVING EAST
AT 25 MPH AND WILL AFFECT AREAS FROM NEAR CLUBB TO SHOOK BETWEEN 545 AND
600 PM.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING.  AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH
OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
 
 
 
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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Jun 8, 1:52 PM CDT, 3 hours 42 minutes before
KYZ001>013-082000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
152 PM CDT THU JUN 8 1995

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN KENTUCKY
HAS BEEN CANCELLED...

THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVED EAST AWAY FROM WESTERN KENTUCKY...SO THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR WESTERN KENTUCKY HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

HOWEVER...THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF MORE SEVERE STORMS DURING THE LATE
AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. REMAIN ALERT TO THE LATEST WEATHER
BULLETINS FOR ANY POSSIBLE WATCHES OR WARNINGS.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF SOUTHERN MISSOURI
...FROM POPLAR BLUFF WEST...UNTIL 9 PM.

YORK
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 1:53 PM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before
KYZ001>013-082000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
152 PM CDT THU JUN 8 1995

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN KENTUCKY
HAS BEEN CANCELLED...

THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVED EAST AWAY FROM WESTERN KENTUCKY...SO THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR WESTERN KENTUCKY HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

HOWEVER...THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF MORE SEVERE STORMS DURING THE LATE
AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. REMAIN ALERT TO THE LATEST WEATHER
BULLETINS FOR ANY POSSIBLE WATCHES OR WARNINGS.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF SOUTHERN MISSOURI
...FROM POPLAR BLUFF WEST...UNTIL 9 PM.

YORK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 5:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHWayne49 min
Jun 8, 5:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHScott42 min
Jun 8, 5:42 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHBollinger33 min
Jun 8, 5:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHStoddard40 min
Jun 8, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCape Girardeau, Scott45 min
Jun 8, 6:32 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHScott28 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.