Tornado Warning 3, NWS Paducah, KY

Issued

Mar 1, 1997, 5:49 PM CST (23:49 UTC)

Expired

Mar 1, 1997, 6:15 PM CST

In force

26 min

Issued by

NWS Paducah, KY

Area

Whole counties

County McLean County, KY

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

000 
TTAA00 KPAH 012349
TORPAH
KYC149-020015-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
549 PM CST SAT MAR 1 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST KENTUCKY
 
   ...MCLEAN COUNTY
 
A POSSIBLE TORNADO WILL BE MOVING THROUGH OR NEAR LIVERMORE KENTUCKY BY
600 PM.
 
AT 549 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 40 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF EVANSVILLE INDIANA...NEAR SEMIWAY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST NORTHEAST AT 45
MPH.
 
DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO.  CARS ARE EASILY
TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS.  IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF
A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING.  IF NO
STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.
 
SPODEN/NOLES

Tornado Warnings in Kentucky, 1997Every tornado warning in 1997Tornadoes in 1997

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.