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Tornado Warning 111, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 29, 2025, 3:13 PM CDT for Wayne County, Illinois. It was in force for 17 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 29, 2025, 3:13 PM CDT (20:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2025, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.75 in
County Wayne County, IL
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:17 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 29, 1:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -170 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1540 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 7:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Jefferson | 22 min |
| Apr 29, 8:27 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Wayne | 48 min |
| Apr 29, 1:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Jackson, Perry | 41 min |
| Apr 29, 1:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Alexander, Jackson, Union | 40 min |
| Apr 29, 2:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Alexander, Franklin, Jackson, Johnson, Perry, Pulaski and 2 more | 42 min |
| Apr 29, 2:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Jefferson | 38 min |
| Apr 29, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Wayne | 37 min |
| Apr 29, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Saline, White, Williamson | 45 min |
| Apr 29, 2:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Johnson, Pope, Saline | 40 min |
| Apr 29, 2:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Hamilton, Jefferson, Wayne, White | 23 min |
| Apr 29, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Gallatin, Hamilton, Saline, White | 45 min |
| Apr 29, 3:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Edwards, Hamilton, Wabash, Wayne, White | 49 min |
| Apr 29, 3:52 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Jefferson, Perry | 3 hr |
| Apr 29, 12:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Wayne | 18 min |
| Apr 29, 1:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Wayne | 35 min |
| Apr 29, 1:16 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Perry | 3 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.