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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 163, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2012, 12:50 AM CDT for Livingston County, Marshall County, Kentucky. It was in force for 25 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 6, 2012, 12:50 AM CDT (05:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2012, 1:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.5 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Livingston County, KY, Marshall County, KY
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 1125 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1540 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 6, 12:01 AM CDT, 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 6, 12:01 AM CDT, 49 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 844 AM CDT SAT MAY 5 2012 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-061000- JEFFERSON-WAYNE IL-EDWARDS-WABASH-PERRY IL-FRANKLIN-HAMILTON- WHITE-JACKSON-WILLIAMSON-SALINE-GALLATIN-UNION IL-JOHNSON-POPE- HARDIN-ALEXANDER-PULASKI-MASSAC-GIBSON-PIKE-POSEY-VANDERBURGH- WARRICK-SPENCER-FULTON-HICKMAN-CARLISLE-BALLARD-MCCRACKEN-GRAVES- LIVINGSTON-MARSHALL-CALLOWAY-CRITTENDEN-LYON-TRIGG-CALDWELL- UNION KY-WEBSTER-HOPKINS-CHRISTIAN-HENDERSON-DAVIESS-MCLEAN- MUHLENBERG-TODD-PERRY MO-BOLLINGER-CAPE GIRARDEAU-WAYNE MO-CARTER- RIPLEY-BUTLER-STODDARD-SCOTT-MISSISSIPPI-NEW MADRID- 844 AM CDT SAT MAY 5 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY...AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE WILL BE A CONTINUING SMALL CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH TONIGHT. THE MAIN THREAT WITH ANY STORM WILL BE HEAVY RAIN AND LIGHTNING. AN ISOLATED STRONGER STORM CANNOT BE RULED OUT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY A SMALL CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE SUNDAY BEFORE INCREASING SUNDAY NIGHT...ESPECIALLY NORTHWEST OF THE OHIO RIVER. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIKELY MONDAY INTO MONDAY NIGHT AS A COLD FRONT PUSHES SOUTHEAST ACROSS OUR REGION. AT THIS TIME...THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS AT LEAST A PORTION OF THE REGION OUTLOOKED IN A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE PERIOD FROM LATE SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY EVENING. A MODERATELY UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE IS FORECAST...BUT A LIMITING FACTOR TO ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS RELATIVELY WEAK WIND PROFILES. IF SEVERE STORMS DO MATERIALIZE...THE MAIN CONCERN WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND LOCALIZED STRONG WIND GUSTS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE LATE SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY EVENING.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 5, 9:20 PM CDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 920 PM CDT SAT MAY 5 2012 ILZ092-KYZ003-004-MOZ112-060330- ALEXANDER-CARLISLE-BALLARD-MISSISSIPPI- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CAIRO...BARDWELL...WICKLIFFE... CHARLESTON 920 PM CDT SAT MAY 5 2012 ...STRONG STORMS NEAR WICKLIFFE... A SMALL CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS NEAR WICKLIFFE WILL REMAIN FAIRLY STATIONARY THROUGH 10 PM. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. THE HEAVY RAIN WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND REDUCED VISIBILITIES.
Special weather statement, May 5, 10:26 PM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 1026 PM CDT SAT MAY 5 2012 KYZ001>006-060430- BALLARD KY-CARLISLE KY-FULTON KY-GRAVES KY-HICKMAN KY-MCCRACKEN KY- 1026 PM CDT SAT MAY 5 2012 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EASTERN HICKMAN...GRAVES... EASTERN CARLISLE...SOUTHEASTERN BALLARD...EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN FULTON AND SOUTHERN MCCRACKEN COUNTIES IN WESTERN KENTUCKY UNTIL 1130 PM CDT... AT 1024 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM LOVELACEVILLE TO 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF MAYFIELD TO FULTON...AND MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE MARGINALLY SEVERE HAIL AROUND QUARTER SIZE IN WESTERN GRAVES COUNTY LATE THIS EVENING AS WELL. LOCATIONS THAT MAY BE IMPACTED INCLUDE... MAYFIELD...LONE OAK...SEDALIA...LYNNVILLE...LOWES AND WINGO.
Local storm report, May 5, 11:14 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1114 PM CDT SAT MAY 05 2012
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1046 PM HAIL FANCY FARM 36.76N 88.79W
05/05/2012 E1.00 INCH GRAVES KY BROADCAST MEDIA
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Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 10:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Graves | 36 min |
| May 5, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Graves | 33 min |
| May 5, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Graves | 31 min |
| May 6, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian, Muhlenberg | 28 min |
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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 2012Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2012
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.