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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 140, NWS Paducah, KY

May 30, 2004Caldwell County, Lyon County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 2004, 9:13 PM CDT for Caldwell County, Lyon County, Kentucky. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 30, 2004, 9:13 PM CDT (02:13 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2004, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Caldwell County, KY, Lyon County, KY

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 30, 6:55 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

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.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 30, 8:56 PM CDT, 17 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 30, 8:57 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 30, 9:02 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 30, 9:04 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 30, 9:06 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 30, 9:11 PM CDT, 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
911 PM CDT SUN MAY 30 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0700 PM     TSTM WND DMG     KARNAK                  37.29N 88.98W
05/30/2004                   PULASKI            IL   EMERGENCY MNGR

            NUMEROUS SMALL TO MEDIUM SIZE LIMBS DOWN. LIMBS DOWN ON A
            VEHICLE, CAMPER, AND HOUSE IN KARNAK. LARGE LIMB DOWN IN
            FRONT OF TOWN BAPTIST CHURCH.

&&

RJP

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Alexander, Pulaski	41 min
May 30, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Hamilton, Saline, Wayne	22 min
May 30, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Johnson	51 min
May 30, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Massac, Pope	65 min
May 30, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Edwards, Wabash	49 min
May 30, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Hamilton, Saline, Wayne	27 min
May 30, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Gallatin, White	49 min
May 30, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Hardin	59 min
May 30, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Saline	18 min
May 30, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ballard	59 min
May 30, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	McCracken	58 min
May 30, 7:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Carlisle	54 min
May 30, 7:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Graves	51 min
May 30, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Marshall	50 min
May 30, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Fulton, Hickman	62 min
May 30, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Union	53 min
May 30, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Hopkins, Lyon, Webster	65 min
May 30, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Henderson	59 min
May 30, 8:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Webster	52 min
May 30, 8:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	McLean	39 min
May 30, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Calloway, Graves, Marshall	49 min
May 30, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Daviess	63 min
May 30, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian, Muhlenberg	53 min
May 30, 9:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Hopkins, Muhlenberg	3 hr
May 30, 9:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Muhlenberg	36 min
May 30, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian, Todd	47 min
May 30, 9:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian, Todd	36 min
May 30, 10:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Henderson, Union	3 hr
May 30, 10:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Crittenden, Graves, Livingston, Lyon, McCracken, Marshall and 1 more	112 min
May 30, 10:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Daviess, McLean	3 hr
May 31, 12:10 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Muhlenberg	95 min
May 30, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Mississippi, New Madrid	49 min
May 30, 7:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	New Madrid	47 min
May 30, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Mississippi	45 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.