Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Jan 3, 2000, 5:24 PM CST for McLean County, Kentucky. It was in force for 21 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
- Jan 3, 2000, 5:24 PM CST (23:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2000, 5:45 PM CST
- In force
- 21 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County McLean County, KY
The radar
The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 4:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 166 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 032325
TORPAH
KYC149-032345-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
524 PM CST MON JAN 3 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
MCLEAN COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY
* UNTIL 545 PM CST
* AT 524 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LIVERMORE...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LEAVE AUTOMOBILES AND MOBILE HOMES...WHICH
OFFER LITTLE PROTECTION FROM A TORNADO. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...
MOVE TO A STURDY BUILDING OR UNDERGROUND SHELTER. AS A LAST RESORT...
SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH...CULVERT OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD
WITH YOUR HANDS.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CST MONDAY EVENING FOR
SOUTHWEST INDIANA AND WESTERN KENTUCKY.
PSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 11:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Henderson | 30 min |
| Jan 3, 12:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Daviess | 36 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, 3:25 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Henderson | 110 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, 4:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Daviess | 33 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, 5:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Calloway, Trigg | 30 min |
| Jan 3, 5:55 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Calloway, Christian, Daviess, Henderson, Hopkins and 5 more | 2 hr |
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.