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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 1995, 6:57 PM CDT for Massac County, Illinois. It was in force for 33 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1995, 6:57 PM CDT (23:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1995, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Massac County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 224 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1351 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -200 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 853 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPAH 082358 TORPAH ILC087-127-153-181-090030- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 657 PM CDT THU JUN 8 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH ILLINOIS ...JOHNSON COUNTY...WESTERN MASSAC COUNTY...PULASKI COUNTY ...SOUTHERN UNION COUNTY A TORNADO HAS BEEN REPORTED IN THE THEBES AREA OF NORTHERN ALEXANDER COUNTY AND ANOTHER POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS REPORTED NEAR MOUND CITY OF SOUTHERN PULASKI COUNTY. THE TORNADO NEAR THEBES HAS APPRARENTLY CAUSED DAMAGE. DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE STORM NOW MOVING ACROSS SOUTHERN UNION COUNTY AND ILLINOIS STATE POLICE REPORT THAT THE PUBLIC SAW FUNNEL CLOUDS IN THE VICINITY OF TAMMS AND ELCO. THESE STORMS WILL AFFECT THE WETAUG...WHITE HILL...HILLERMAN AREA BY 715 PM AND MAY MOVE NEAR VIENNA BY 715 TO 730 PM. RESIDENTS IN THE PATH SHOULD TAKE SHELTER NOW. 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, 5 hours 5 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, 5 hours 4 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 9:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Franklin, Williamson | 30 min |
| Jun 8, 9:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Hamilton, Saline | 40 min |
| Jun 8, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Jackson | 42 min |
| Jun 8, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Union | 40 min |
| Jun 8, 6:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Johnson, Pulaski, Union | 33 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.