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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Paducah, KY

May 23, 2000Marshall County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at May 23, 2000, 6:03 PM CDT for Marshall County, Kentucky. It was in force for 42 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: May 23, 2000, 6:03 PM CDT (23:03 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2000, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Marshall County, KY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 23, 6:18 PM CDT	Hail 1.5	Benton, KY

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
May 23, 4:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 182 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: 25 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -194 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1129 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 232 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 311 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

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

434 
WFUS53 KPAH 232311 COR
TORPAH
KYC157-232345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED...CORRECTED UGC HEADER
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
603 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MARSHALL COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT

* AT 603 PM CDT...STORM SPOTTER REPORTED A ROTATING WALL CLOUD...NEAR
POSSUM TROT IN NORTHERN MARSHALL COUNTY. THE POTENTIAL TORNADO WAS MOVING
EAST AT 20 MPH.

TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3693 8850 3677 8849 3685 8817 3691 8836

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 5:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Henderson, Union	27 min
May 23, 8:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Henderson	28 min
May 23, 8:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Daviess	51 min
May 23, 9:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Carlisle	52 min
May 23, 9:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Graves	60 min
May 23, 10:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Trigg	57 min
May 23, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Graves, Marshall	55 min
May 23, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Calloway, Trigg	42 min
May 23, 6:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Calloway	24 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.