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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at May 23, 2000, 9:04 PM CDT for Scott County, Missouri. It was in force for 71 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, 9:04 PM CDT (02:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2000, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 71 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Scott County, MO
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| May 23, 9:15 PM CDT | Hail 1.25 | Morley, MO | Half-dollar size hail fell at Morley. |
| May 23, 9:25 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Benton, MO | Baseball size hail fell in the Benton area. |
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, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 247 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.
239 WFUS53 KPAH 240205 TORPAH MOC201-240315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 904 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SCOTT COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI * UNTIL 1015 PM CDT * AT 904 PM CDT...STORMS SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 1 MILE NORTH OF BLODGETT...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF HAY-WOOD CITY AT 925 PM CDT LAT...LON 3708 8971 3692 8967 3697 8942 3714 8954 DH
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, 7:24 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, 8:17 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 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.