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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 154, NWS Paducah, KY

May 25, 2002Henderson County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2002, 4:35 PM CDT for Henderson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 25 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: May 25, 2002, 4:35 PM CDT (21:35 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2002, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Henderson County, KY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 25, 4:40 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Corydon, KY

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.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 204 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1264 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 92 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KPAH 252135
SVRPAH
KYC101-252200-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
436 PM CDT SAT MAY 25 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HENDERSON COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 500 PM CDT

* AT 429 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS REPORTED OVER CORYDON...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE HENDERSON

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN PADUCAH.

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.

NWS Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 25, 1:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 1:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
100 PM CDT SAT MAY 25 2002

LATEST SURFACE ANALYSIS DEPICTS LOW NEAR CHI WITH A COLD FRONT
EXTENDING SOUTHWESTWARD THROUGH THE UNO AREA INTO NE TEXAS. A WARM
FRONT EXTENDED EASTWARD FROM THE LOW...ACROSS IN AND OH. DEWPOINTS
WERE WELL INTO THE LOWER 60S OVER THE FA. VIS SAT PICS SHOW A FEW
CLOUDS OVER AREA HOWEVER...DENSE CLOUDS REMAINED NEAR THE BOUNDARY
AND POST FRONTAL.

SURFACE LOW HAD ROCKETED OUT OF THE PLAINS AND INTO NE ILLINOIS
OVERNIGHT INTO THIS MORNING. THIS MOVEMENT SHOULD CONTINUE THIS
AFTERNOON AS UPPER LEVEL SHORT WAVE ROTATES THROUGH. THE 12Z SAT
MESO ETA SHOWS DECENT LOW LEVEL INSTABILITY WITH LIS TO -4...CAPES
NEAR 1500 J/KG...SHOWALTERS AROUND ZERO...AND K INDICIES AROUND 30.
IN CONTRAST...THE SURFACE LOW IS LIFTING NE AWAY FROM THE AREA AND
TAKING THE BEST CONVERGENCE WITH IT. KPAH VWP INDICATES LITTLE
DIRECTIONAL SHEAR AND RELATIVELY MODEST SPEED SHEAR. THUS ANY
THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO BECOME SEVERE WOULD NOT LIKELY BE TORNADIC.
WITH A FRONT IN THE AREA AT PEAK HEATING AND THE FREEZING LEVEL
AROUND 12K AND WET BULB ZERO AROUND 10K WOULD NOT RULE OUT HAIL OR
WIND SHOULD ANY STORMS GET GOING OVER FA.

AFTER TODAY SHOULD REMAIN RELATIVELY DRY THROUGH THE WEEK WITH THE
BEST CHANCE OF RAIN ARRIVING AGAIN ON THURSDAY. ALTHOUGH ITS THE
BEST CHANCE ITS STILL NOT A GOOD CHANCE AND WILL MAINTAIN CURRENT
DRY FORECAST UNTIL STRONGER EVIDENCE PRESENTS ITSELF OR MODELS SHOW
A BETTER RUN TO RUN CONTINUITY.

NUMERICAL GUIDANCE KEEPS MOST OF FA IN THE 80S THROUGHOUT THE RUN
AND WILL FOLLOW THAT TREND ESPECIALLY EARLY IN THE WORK WEEK. WILL
MODERATE LOWS OUT OF THE 50S AND INTO THE 60S MONDAY NIGHT.

.PAH...NONE.
KH

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 25, 2:18 PM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
218 PM CDT SAT MAY 25 2002

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

0200 PM                              IL   WIND DAMAGE
05/25/02   JEFFERSON                      LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN ON
                                          HWY 148...SOUTH OF MT.
                                          VERNON. REPORTED BY
                                          JEFFERSON COUNTY SHERIFFS
                                          OFFICE.

Local storm report, May 25, 3:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
301 PM CDT SAT MAY 25 2002

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

0258 PM    HERRIN                    IL   0.75 INCH HAIL
05/25/02   WILLIAMSON                     REPORTED BY STATE POLICE
                                          POST DISTRICT 13

Local storm report, May 25, 3:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
304 PM CDT SAT MAY 25 2002

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

0300 PM    CRAINVILLE                IL   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/25/02   WILLIAMSON                     REPORTED BY WSIL-TV 3

Local storm report, May 25, 3:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
317 PM CDT SAT MAY 25 2002

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

0310 PM    MARION                    IL   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/25/02   WILLIAMSON                     REPORTED BY SKYWARN STORM
                                          SPOTTER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Henderson	23 min
May 25, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Union	30 min
May 25, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Crittenden	31 min
May 25, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ballard, McCracken	30 min
May 25, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Webster	31 min
May 25, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Crittenden	35 min
May 25, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Hopkins	45 min
May 25, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Daviess	36 min
May 25, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Livingston	27 min
May 25, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Carlisle	32 min
May 25, 6:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Lyon	41 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.