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Tornado Warning 153, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Dec 18, 2025, 3:25 PM CST for Ballard County, McCracken County, Kentucky; Massac County, Pope County, Illinois. It was in force for 22 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 18, 2025, 3:25 PM CST (21:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 18, 2025, 3:47 PM CST
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.75 in
Counties Massac County, IL, Pope 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 21:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 330 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
- 483 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 538 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 551 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 18, 5:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian, Todd | 47 min |
| Dec 18, 5:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian, Todd | 44 min |
| Dec 18, 5:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian, Muhlenberg, Todd | 24 min |
| Dec 18, 10:26 AM CST | Wind Advisory | PAH | Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Jackson, Jefferson and 8 more | 14 hr |
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.