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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 413, NWS Paducah, KY

December 28, 2025Henderson County, McLean County, Union County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 28, 2025, 7:00 PM CST for Henderson County, McLean County, Union County, Kentucky. It was in force for 34 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: Dec 28, 2025, 7:00 PM CST (01:00 UTC)
Expired: Dec 28, 2025, 7:34 PM CST
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Henderson County, KY, McLean County, KY, Union County, KY

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:03 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Dec 28, 2:47 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 192 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: 37 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1136 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 324 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 440 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 28, 6:15 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Ballard, Carlisle, McCracken	60 min
Dec 28, 6:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ballard	28 min
Dec 28, 6:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ballard, McCracken	40 min
Dec 28, 7:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Henderson	45 min
Dec 28, 7:03 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Henderson	12 min
Dec 28, 7:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Calloway, Graves, Hickman, Livingston, Lyon, McCracken and 1 more	40 min
Dec 28, 8:07 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Christian, Muhlenberg, Todd, Trigg	38 min
Dec 28, 6:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	White	21 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.