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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 280, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 2026, 3:56 PM CDT for Ballard County, Carlisle County, Graves County, Kentucky. It was in force for 23 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
- Jul 21, 2026, 3:56 PM CDT (20:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2026, 4:19 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Ballard County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Graves County, KY
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:59 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 1:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 1809 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 852 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 2:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Henderson | 41 min |
| Jul 21, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Daviess, Henderson, McLean, Webster | 22 min |
| Jul 21, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Hopkins, Muhlenberg | 44 min |
| Jul 21, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Muhlenberg | 20 min |
| Jul 21, 4:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Muhlenberg | 10 min |
| Jul 21, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Livingston, Lyon, Marshall | 39 min |
| Jul 21, 5:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Christian | 40 min |
| Jul 21, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Christian, Hopkins | 35 min |
| Jul 21, 2:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Alexander | 42 min |
| Jul 21, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Alexander | 24 min |
| Jul 21, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Mississippi, New Madrid, Scott | 39 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.