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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Paducah, KY

May 25, 2020Ballard County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2020, 5:32 PM CDT for Ballard County, Kentucky. It was in force for 28 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 25, 2020, 5:32 PM CDT (22:32 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2020, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Ballard County, KY

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 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 nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 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: 607 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -69 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1082 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 25, 2:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 2:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 25, 2:13 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 25, 2:23 PM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 5:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	McCracken	51 min
May 25, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian, Muhlenberg, Todd	46 min
May 25, 6:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	McCracken	48 min
May 24, 8:23 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Jackson, Perry, Union	7 hr
May 24, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jackson	20 min
May 24, 9:31 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Jackson, Union	3 hr
May 25, 2:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Franklin, Jefferson	16 min
May 25, 3:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Franklin, Williamson	28 min
May 25, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Franklin, Jefferson, Perry	31 min
May 25, 6:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Johnson, Massac	38 min
May 25, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Johnson, Union	19 min
May 24, 10:26 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Stoddard	3 hr
May 25, 1:19 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Butler, Wayne	6 hr
May 25, 1:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Wayne	44 min
May 25, 1:44 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Wayne	6 hr
May 25, 2:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Carter	37 min
May 25, 3:43 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Carter, Wayne	4 hr
May 25, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Wayne	49 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.