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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 2013, 11:55 AM CDT for Caldwell County, Lyon County, Kentucky. It was in force for 35 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
- Jul 18, 2013, 11:55 AM CDT (16:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 2013, 12:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
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 16:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 2137 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 914 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
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 Jul 17, 6:19 PM CDT, 17 hours 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 17, 6:19 PM CDT, 17 hours 36 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 12:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Lyon, Trigg | 45 min |
| Jul 18, 12:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Calloway, Graves | 28 min |
| Jul 18, 2:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | New Madrid, Stoddard | 29 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 2013Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2013
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.