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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Paducah, KY

June 8, 1995Bollinger County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 1995, 5:42 PM CDT for Bollinger County, Missouri. It was in force for 33 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 1995, 5:42 PM CDT (22:42 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1995, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Bollinger County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 277 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 082242
TORPAH
MOC017-082315-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
542 PM CDT THU JUN 8 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI
 
   ...NORTHERN BOLLINGER COUNTY
 
WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES A POSSIBLE TORNADO BETWEEN
CASCADE AND GRASSY OR ABOUT 30 MILES NORTH OF POPLAR BLUFF. THE STORM
WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL AFFECT THE COMMUNITIES OF
BESSVILE AND GRASSY BETWEEN 545 AND 600 PM.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

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 50 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 49 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, 5:34 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHWayne26 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.