Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Jan 3, 2000, 5:30 PM CST for Calloway County, Trigg County, Kentucky. It was in force for 30 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 3, 2000, 5:30 PM CST (23:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2000, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Calloway County, KY, Trigg County, KY
The radar
The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:34 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 5:45 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Cadiz, KY | Nine or ten trees were down. |
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, 4:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 143 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 032331 TORPAH KYC035-221-040000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 530 PM CST MON JAN 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN CALLOWAY COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY TRIGG COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY * UNTIL 600 PM CST * AT 530 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 24 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CADIZ...OR ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF MURRAY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... OVER CADIZ AT 545 PM CST 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 IND,IANA AND WESTERN KENTUCKY. LAT...LON 3668 8821 3656 8806 3688 8771 3697 8782 PS
The 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, 5:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | McLean | 21 min |
| Jan 3, 5:55 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Calloway, Christian, Daviess, Henderson, Hopkins and 5 more | 2 hr |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.