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Special Weather Statement, NWS Paducah, KY

May 19, 2026Caldwell County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this special weather statement at May 19, 2026, 2:08 PM CDT for Caldwell County, Kentucky. It was in force for 52 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 19, 2026, 2:08 PM CDT (19:08 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 2026, 3:00 PM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Hail: 0.50 in
Wind: 50

County Caldwell County, KY

The radar

The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 158 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: 1086 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -91 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 972 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 199 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 19, 11:35 AM CDT	Flood Watch	PAH	Henderson, Union	18 hr
May 19, 1:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Marshall	35 min
May 19, 1:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Lyon	32 min
May 19, 1:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Lyon	25 min
May 19, 1:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Caldwell	35 min
May 19, 2:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Webster	42 min
May 19, 2:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Caldwell	41 min
May 19, 2:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	McLean	52 min
May 19, 3:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Daviess	34 min
May 19, 3:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Marshall	27 min
May 19, 3:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Daviess	24 min
May 19, 4:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Livingston	50 min
May 19, 6:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Lyon, Marshall	45 min
May 19, 3:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Warrick	25 min
May 19, 3:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Spencer	30 min
May 19, 3:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Spencer	23 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.