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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Paducah, KY

February 6, 2025Carlisle County, Hickman County, Kentucky; Mississippi County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 6, 2025, 1:13 PM CST for Carlisle County, Hickman County, Kentucky; Mississippi County, Missouri. It was in force for 29 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: Feb 6, 2025, 1:13 PM CST (19:13 UTC)
Expired: Feb 6, 2025, 1:42 PM CST
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Carlisle County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Mississippi County, MO

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:17 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 233 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: 426 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 809 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 345 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 388 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 7.3

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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 Feb 6, 11:44 AM CST, 1 hour 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 6, 11:44 AM CST, 1 hour 29 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Feb 6, 12:41 PM CST, 32 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Paducah KY
1241 PM CST Thu Feb 6 2025

MOZ112-114-061930-
New Madrid MO-Mississippi MO-
1241 PM CST Thu Feb 6 2025

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI AND
NORTHEASTERN NEW MADRID COUNTIES THROUGH 130 PM CST...

At 1241 PM CST, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Farrenburg, or 7 miles north of Hunter-Dawson State Historic Site,
moving east at 45 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph and nickel size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
         possible.

Locations impacted include...
East Prairie, Big Oak Tree State Park, Towosahgy State Historic Site,
Matthews, Anniston, and Farrenburg.

This includes Interstate 55 between Mile Markers 49 and 60.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 3662 8967 3677 8968 3687 8914 3685 8914
      3684 8918 3681 8918 3679 8916 3679 8913
      3675 8912 3676 8917 3674 8920 3673 8920
      3669 8917 3667 8916 3665 8918
TIME...MOT...LOC 1841Z 263DEG 38KT 3670 8956

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 5, 8:38 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Daviess	22 min
Feb 5, 9:05 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Daviess	10 min
Feb 5, 9:31 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Christian	44 min
Feb 5, 9:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Todd	11 min
Feb 6, 4:33 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Muhlenberg	12 min
Feb 6, 10:47 AM CST	River Flood Warning	PAH	Daviess, Henderson	20 days
Feb 6, 1:31 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Calloway	14 min
Feb 6, 1:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian, Trigg	37 min
Feb 6, 2:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Henderson, Union	28 min
Feb 6, 2:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian, Todd	24 min
Feb 6, 5:12 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Caldwell, Calloway, Christian, Crittenden, Daviess, Henderson and 10 more	93 min
Feb 6, 12:41 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Mississippi	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.