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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 232, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 18, 2019, 3:41 PM CDT for 4 counties in Illinois. It was in force for 49 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
- Aug 18, 2019, 3:41 PM CDT (20:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2019, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Gallatin County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Saline County, IL, White County, IL
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:43 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 1:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 249 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
- 1407 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1396 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 1:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Jefferson, Wayne | 51 min |
| Aug 18, 1:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Jefferson, Wayne | 35 min |
| Aug 18, 1:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Jackson, Perry | 46 min |
| Aug 18, 2:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Edwards, Jefferson, Wayne | 60 min |
| Aug 18, 2:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Franklin, Jackson, Perry | 40 min |
| Aug 18, 3:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Hamilton | 28 min |
| Aug 18, 3:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Edwards, Wabash, Wayne, White | 32 min |
| Aug 18, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson | 24 min |
| Aug 18, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Edwards, Wabash | 46 min |
| Aug 18, 2:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Perry, Ripley and 1 more | 48 min |
| Aug 18, 3:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Butler, Scott, Stoddard | 56 min |
| Aug 18, 4:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Butler, Mississippi, New Madrid, Ripley, Stoddard | 58 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.