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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Paducah, KY

May 2, 20225 counties in Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2022, 11:54 PM CDT for 5 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 51 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 2, 2022, 11:54 PM CDT (04:54 UTC)
Expired
May 3, 2022, 12:45 AM CDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, Trigg County, KY

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:55 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

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 365 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 2022-05-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 2022-05-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 70 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1628 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 2, 7:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementPAHTrigg31 min
May 2, 10:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatPAHFulton37 min
May 2, 10:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHFulton, Hickman15 min
May 2, 10:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCarlisle, Graves, Hickman49 min
May 2, 11:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHLivingston, McCracken39 min
May 2, 11:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCalloway, Graves, Marshall34 min
May 3, 12:31 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementPAHChristian44 min
May 3, 1:17 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementPAHChristian, Muhlenberg, Todd43 min
May 3, 4:04 AM CDTLake Wind AdvisoryPAHBallard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more13 hr
May 2, 7:57 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementPAHRipley48 min
May 2, 8:26 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementPAHButler34 min
May 2, 9:04 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementPAHButler, Stoddard41 min
May 2, 9:48 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementPAHMississippi, New Madrid57 min
May 2, 9:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHNew Madrid36 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.