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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 3, 1999, 4:24 PM CST for Henderson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 36 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
- Apr 3, 1999, 4:24 PM CST (22:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 1999, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Henderson County, KY
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 1:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 276 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
- 537 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1028 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Apr 3, 2:32 PM CST, 1 hour 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 2:32 PM CST, 1 hour 52 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Apr 3, 4:36 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Livingston | 3 hr |
| Apr 3, 4:36 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Ballard, McCracken | 3 hr |
| Apr 3, 5:58 AM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Trigg | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 6:10 AM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Christian | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 6:27 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Todd | 63 min |
| Apr 3, 3:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Union | 42 min |
| Apr 3, 4:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Henderson | 38 min |
| Apr 3, 1:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Alexander | 38 min |
| Apr 3, 2:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Johnson, Pulaski | 47 min |
| Apr 3, 2:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Pope | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 10:01 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Bollinger | 3 hr |
| Apr 3, 10:41 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Wayne | 119 min |
| Apr 3, 11:26 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Perry | 119 min |
| Apr 3, 1:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Cape Girardeau | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 1:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Mississippi | 31 min |
| Apr 3, 2:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Scott | 22 min |
| Apr 3, 5:13 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Wayne | 6 hr |
| Apr 3, 5:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carter, Ripley | 59 min |
| Apr 3, 5:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Butler, Wayne | 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.