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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2018, 11:28 PM CDT for Edwards County, Wabash County, Wayne County, Illinois. It was in force for 16 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
- Jun 2, 2018, 11:28 PM CDT (04:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2018, 11:44 PM CDT
- In force
- 16 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Edwards County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Wayne County, IL
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 1054 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1107 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 7:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Christian | 43 min |
| Jun 2, 8:01 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Christian | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 8:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Hancock | 36 min |
| Jun 3, 10:16 AM CDT | Lake Wind Advisory | PAH | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 2, 10:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Hamilton, Jefferson, Wayne | 44 min |
| Jun 2, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Wayne | 33 min |
| Jun 2, 11:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Hamilton, Wayne, White | 29 min |
| Jun 2, 11:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Edwards, Wabash | 52 min |
| Jun 2, 8:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Perry | 48 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.