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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Paducah, KY

April 16, 2000Scott County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 16, 2000, 7:16 PM CDT for Scott County, Missouri. It was in force for 29 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued: Apr 16, 2000, 7:16 PM CDT (00:16 UTC)
Expired: Apr 16, 2000, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Scott County, MO

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 16, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 254 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 520 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1274 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 130 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 0.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

109 
WFUS53 KPAH 170017
TORPAH
MOC201-170045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
716 PM CDT SUN APR 16 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SCOTT COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 716 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BENTON...OR ABOUT 7 MILES
  EAST OF ORAN...MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH.

STATE POLICE REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD JUST NORTH OF SIKESTON AT 715 
PM.

GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR

LAT...LON 3719 8961 3701 8965 3694 8944 3710 8939

MY/CN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 16, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Scott	27 min
Apr 16, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Mississippi, Scott	51 min
Apr 16, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Butler	51 min
Apr 16, 7:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Mississippi	25 min
Apr 16, 7:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Butler, Stoddard	52 min
Apr 16, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Mississippi	31 min
Apr 16, 8:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	New Madrid	36 min
Apr 16, 8:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Mississippi	51 min
Apr 16, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	New Madrid	61 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.