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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at May 23, 2000, 8:17 PM CDT for Scott County, Stoddard County, Missouri. It was in force for 43 min. 3 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, 8:17 PM CDT (01:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2000, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Scott County, MO, Stoddard County, MO
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 8:22 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Oran, MO | |
| May 23, 8:35 PM CDT | Hail 1.5 | Morley, MO | Dime size hail was reported just west of Morley. Silver-dollar size hail fell at Chaffee. |
| May 23, 9:04 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Blodgett, MO | A trained spotter reported a funnel cloud briefly touched down in open rural farm country. There was no apparent damage. Large hail with the associated thunderstorm caused most of the damage. |
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 |
| May 23, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 230 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
982
WFUS53 KPAH 240118
TORPAH
MOC201-207-240200-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
817 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SCOTT COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI
STODDARD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI
* UNTIL 900 PM CDT
* AT 817 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BELL CITY...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF ORAN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THERE HAVE BEEN NUMEROUS REPORTS
OF ROTATING WALL CLOUDS AND FUNNEL CLOUDS WITH THIS STORM.
A TORNADO DETECTED BY DOPPLER RADAR MEANS THERE IS STRONG ROTATION
OBSERVED BY THE RADAR WITHIN THE STORM. A TORNADO IS EITHER LIKELY TO
FORM DURING THE WARNING PERIOD...OR HAS ALREADY DEVELOPED. ABANDON
MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS
LAT...LON 3697 9014 3664 9013 3666 8973 3687 8972
3705 8937 3713 8980
DHThe 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, 7:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Bollinger | 51 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, 8:44 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 |
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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.