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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Paducah, KY

May 23, 2000Calloway County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at May 23, 2000, 6:36 PM CDT for Calloway County, Kentucky. It was in force for 24 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: May 23, 2000, 6:36 PM CDT (23:36 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Calloway County, KY

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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 165 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.

417 
WFUS53 KPAH 232337
TORPAH
KYC035-240000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
636 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 636 PM CDT...SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD OVER NORTH CENTRAL
  CALLOWAY COUNTY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. MOVE TO AN
INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS

LAT...LON 3674 8843 3661 8827 3665 8814 3675 8823

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, 6:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Marshall	42 min
May 23, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Calloway, Trigg	42 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.