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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 3, 2000, 11:45 AM CST for Vanderburgh County, Indiana; Henderson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 30 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 3, 2000, 11:45 AM CST (17:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2000, 12:15 PM CST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Vanderburgh County, IN, Henderson County, KY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 11:45 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Cairo, KY | Trees were blown down. Just east of Cairo, a house sustained minor to moderate roof damage. |
| Jan 3, 11:58 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Evansville, IN | Trees were down in downtown Evansville. |
| Jan 3, 12:10 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 65 E | Evansville, IN | Thunderstorm winds caused extensive damage in a small area, covering approximately a four square block area on the east side of Evansville. About 25 homes were damaged. Most of the damage was due to trees being blown onto roofs. Five homes had to be abandoned |
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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 11:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 699 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 255 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPAH 031746 SVRPAH INC163-KYC101-031815- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 1145 AM CST MON JAN 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... VANDERBURGH COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA HENDERSON COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY * UNTIL 1215 PM CST * AT 1145 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF CORYDON...OR ABOUT 4 MILES NORTH OF BRECKINRIDGE CENTER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER S(ERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN PADUCAH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 10:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Posey, Vanderburgh | 48 min |
| Jan 3, 11:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Spencer | 33 min |
| Jan 3, 12:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Warrick | 36 min |
| Jan 3, 3:25 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Pike, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 110 min |
| Jan 3, 4:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Spencer | 33 min |
| Jan 3, 5:55 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Spencer | 2 hr |
| Jan 3, 10:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Ballard, McCracken | 47 min |
| Jan 3, 10:45 AM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Carlisle | 30 min |
| Jan 3, 11:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Union | 31 min |
| Jan 3, 2:19 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | McCracken | 3 hr |
| Jan 3, 2:36 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle | 3 hr |
| Jan 3, 3:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Fulton | 29 min |
| Jan 3, 3:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Hickman | 29 min |
| Jan 3, 3:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Webster | 34 min |
| Jan 3, 3:32 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Fulton, Graves, Hickman | 118 min |
| Jan 3, 3:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Graves, Hickman | 35 min |
| Jan 3, 3:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Daviess, Henderson, McLean | 32 min |
| Jan 3, 5:01 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Crittenden, Daviess, Hopkins, McLean, Webster | 3 hr |
| Jan 3, 5:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian, Hopkins, Muhlenberg | 39 min |
| Jan 3, 5:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | McLean | 21 min |
| Jan 3, 5:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Calloway, Trigg | 30 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.