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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 126, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2020, 6:11 PM CDT for Bollinger County, Wayne County, Missouri. 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
- May 25, 2020, 6:11 PM CDT (23:11 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2020, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.88 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Bollinger County, MO, Wayne County, MO
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 318 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
- 753 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 809 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
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 May 25, 2:55 PM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 25, 2:55 PM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Ballard | 28 min |
| 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 |
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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.