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Tornado Warning 158, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Dec 28, 2025, 7:03 PM CST for Henderson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 12 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, 7:03 PM CST (01:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 28, 2025, 7:15 PM CST
- In force
- 12 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.75 in
County Henderson County, KY
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 53 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 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, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 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
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, 7:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Henderson, McLean, Union | 34 min |
| Dec 28, 7:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 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 |
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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.