Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at May 18, 1995, 3:55 PM CDT for Trigg County, Kentucky. It was in force for 35 min. 2 reports 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
- May 18, 1995, 3:55 PM CDT (20:55 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 1995, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Trigg County, KY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 4:12 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Cadiz, KY | This was the first of two tornadoes spawned by a supercell thunderstorm that moved through Trigg County. The second more powerful and longer-lived tornado is detailed in the next entry. This first brief tornado only knocked down several trees. |
| May 18, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado F2 | Cadiz To, KY | Six houses were damaged, one extensively. Vehicles were moved, including a camper trailer picked up and tossed across a road. A mobile home was blown over 300 feet. Numerous trees were downed, and two barns were destroyed. The tornado moved into Christian Co |
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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 1151 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 674 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 4.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPAH 182056 TORPAH KYC221-182130- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 355 PM CDT THU MAY 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST KENTUCKY ...TRIGG COUNTY A TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH OR NEAR CADIZ BETWEEN 4 AND 415 PM CDT. AT 355 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 40 MILES SOUTHEAST PADUCAH OR 5 MILES WEST OF CADIZ. MOVEMENT WAS EAST NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO zA SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT. LAMM
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
Local storm report, May 18, 10:18 AM CDT, 5 hours 37 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 MARIONlLocal storm report, May 18, 10:43 AM CDT, 5 hours 12 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***Local storm report, May 18, 2:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
240 PM CDT THU MAY 18 1995
TIME (CDT) ...CITY LOCATION... STATE
...COUNTY LOCATION... ...EVENT/REMARKS...
0201 PM WICKLIFFE KY 0.75 INCH HAIL
05/18/95 BALLARD
0215 PM HICKMAN KY TORNADO
05/18/95 FULTON 3 REPORTS/1 CONFIRMED
0226 PM 4E CLINTON KY 1.75 INCH HAIL^
05/18/95 HICKMAN
SHANKLINLocal storm report, May 18, 2:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
245 PM CDT THU MAY 18 1995
TIME (CDT) ...CITY LOCATION... STATE
...COUNTY LOCATION... ...EVENT/REMARKS...
02p44 PM VIENNA IL 0.75 INCH HAIL
05/18/95 JOHNSON
SHANKLINLocal storm report, May 18, 3:48 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 345 PM CDT THU MAY 18 1995
TIME (CDT) ...CITY LOCATION... STATE
...COUNTY LOCATION... ...EVENT/REMARKS...
0310 PM GOLO KY 0.75 INCH HAIL 05/18/95 GRAVES
220 PM 3S HICKMAN KY TORNADO 05/18/95 BALLARD TREES DOWN ON ROADS
0333 PM VIENNA IL TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN 05/18/95 JOHNSON
0335 PM MURRAY KY 0.75 INCH HAIL 05/18/95 CALLOWAY
0326 PM 4W CUBA KY 1.75 INCH HAIL 05/18/95 GRAVES
RLS
bThe 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, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Calloway | 30 min |
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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.