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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Paducah, KY

May 23, 2000Bollinger County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at May 23, 2000, 7:24 PM CDT for Bollinger County, Missouri. It was in force for 51 min. 2 reports 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, 7:24 PM CDT (00:24 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2000, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Bollinger County, MO

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 23, 7:37 PM CDT	Hail 2.75	Marble Hill, MO	Spotters reported golf ball size hail in Marble Hill, and baseball size hail in Leopold. Two car dealerships in Marble Hill reported their entire inventory of vehicles received damage. One insurance agent in Marble Hill received hail-damage claims on 10 homes
May 23, 8:24 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Marble Hill, MO	Golf ball hail was reported between Marble Hill and Leopold.

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

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 281 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: 1412 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -251 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1771 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 326 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.3

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The text

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

583 
WFUS53 KPAH 240026
TORPAH
MOC017-240115-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
724 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A

* A TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BOLLINGER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 724 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
POSSIBLE TORNADO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF MARBLE HILL...MOVING   
SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE POSSIBLE TORNADO WILL BE...
  NEAR MARBLE HILL AT 735 PM CDT

LAT...LON 3750 9016 3733 9025 3715 9003 3729 8984

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Bollinger	75 min
May 23, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Cape Girardeau	53 min
May 23, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Scott, Stoddard	57 min
May 23, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Bollinger	63 min
May 23, 8:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Scott, Stoddard	43 min
May 23, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Cape Girardeau	31 min
May 23, 8:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Scott	81 min
May 23, 8:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Mississippi	77 min
May 23, 9:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Scott	71 min
May 24, 8:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Wayne	68 min
May 24, 8:21 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Wayne	39 min
May 24, 8:37 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Bollinger	23 min
May 24, 8:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Cape Girardeau	31 min
May 24, 8:50 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Stoddard	25 min
May 24, 8:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Scott	37 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.