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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 18, 2024, 5:34 PM CDT for Ballard County, McCracken County, Kentucky; Massac County, Pulaski County, Illinois. It was in force for 41 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
- Apr 18, 2024, 5:34 PM CDT (22:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 18, 2024, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Massac County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Ballard County, KY, McCracken County, KY
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:34 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 12:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 336 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1827 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 269 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Apr 18, 1:07 PM CDT, 4 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 18, 1:07 PM CDT, 4 hours 27 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Paducah KY 135 PM CDT Thu Apr 18 2024 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-191000- Jefferson-Wayne IL-Edwards-Wabash-Perry IL-Franklin-Hamilton- White-Jackson-Williamson-Saline-Gallatin-Union-Johnson-Pope- Hardin-Alexander-Pulaski-Massac-Gibson-Pike-Posey-Vanderburgh- Warrick-Spencer-Fulton-Hickman-Carlisle-Ballard-McCracken-Graves- Livingston-Marshall-Calloway-Crittenden-Lyon-Trigg-Caldwell- Union KY-Webster-Hopkins-Christian-Henderson-Daviess-McLean- Muhlenberg-Todd-Perry MO-Bollinger-Cape Girardeau-Wayne MO-Carter- Ripley-Butler-Stoddard-Scott-Mississippi-New Madrid- 135 PM CDT Thu Apr 18 2024 /235 PM EDT Thu Apr 18 2024/ This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of southern Illinois, southwest Indiana, western Kentucky, and southeast Missouri. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight The threat of storms will increase to a peak this evening, with all severe hazards in play. The greatest risk is for damaging winds, with large hail and tornadoes also posing potential risks. Frequent deadly lightning and locally heavy rains capable of sporadic flooding are also potential hazards. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday Lows in the upper 30s are possible this weekend, with Sunday night perhaps the best chance for frost to develop as skies clear and winds diminish then. These cooler temperatures and thus the chance of frost appears greatest along and north of the Ohio River. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is requested for our ongoing active severe weather watch.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 18, 1:48 PM CDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before
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</html>Local storm report, Apr 18, 5:20 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Paducah KY
520 PM CDT Thu Apr 18 2024
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0510 PM Tstm Wnd Dmg 3 SSW Mound City 37.05N 89.19W
04/18/2024 Alexander IL 911 Call Center
Tree down across Highway 37 between Cairo
and Mounds City.
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DWSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Ballard | 39 min |
| Apr 18, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Livingston | 31 min |
| Apr 18, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Calloway, Graves | 38 min |
| Apr 18, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Jackson, Union, Williamson | 28 min |
| Apr 18, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Franklin, Jackson, Williamson | 17 min |
| Apr 18, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Alexander, Johnson, Pulaski, Union | 28 min |
| Apr 18, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Johnson, Massac, Pope, Pulaski | 44 min |
| Apr 18, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Alexander | 39 min |
| Apr 18, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Johnson, Massac, Pope | 49 min |
| Apr 18, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Johnson, Massac, Pope | 23 min |
| Apr 18, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Jackson, Jefferson, Perry | 57 min |
| Apr 18, 1:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Bollinger, Scott, Stoddard, Wayne | 42 min |
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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.