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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS Paducah, KY

May 25, 2006Pope County, Saline County, Illinois

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2006, 5:47 PM CDT for Pope County, Saline County, Illinois. It was in force for 43 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 25, 2006, 5:47 PM CDT (22:47 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2006, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Pope County, IL, Saline County, IL

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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 25, 5:16 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 238 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: 1538 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 975 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KPAH 252247
SVRPAH
ILC151-165-252330-
/O.NEW.KPAH.SV.W.0310.060525T2247Z-060525T2330Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
547 PM CDT THU MAY 25 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH KENTUCKY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  POPE COUNTY IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS.
  SALINE COUNTY IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS.

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT.

* AT 542 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL.  THIS STORM
  WAS LOCATED 16 MILES WEST OF HEROD...OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  HARRISBURG...AND MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT DELWOOD AND RUDEMINT.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF A TORNADO
IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY
STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.

SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3765 8871 3751 8871 3751 8842 3761 8842
      3761 8838 3771 8837

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jefferson	42 min
May 24, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Perry	36 min
May 24, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jefferson	31 min
May 25, 2:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Wabash	26 min
May 25, 3:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Wabash	23 min
May 25, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Williamson	25 min
May 25, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Johnson	51 min
May 25, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Gallatin	25 min
May 25, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Alexander, Pulaski, Union	53 min
May 25, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Johnson, Massac	44 min
May 25, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Gallatin	30 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 2006 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.