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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at May 23, 2000, 10:57 PM CDT for Union County, Illinois. It was in force for 33 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, 10:57 PM CDT (03:57 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2000, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Union County, IL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 11:27 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Jonesboro, IL | This was the second of two severe thunderstorms that passed southeast across Union County in less than two hours. The main feature of both storms was golf ball size hail. |
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, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 283 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
- 1386 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1168 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 6.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
229 WFUS53 KPAH 240357 TORPAH ILC181-240430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 1057 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... UNION COUNTY IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS * UNTIL 1130 PM CDT * AT 1057 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ANNA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR LAT...LON 3755 8950 3735 8939 3735 8906 3759 8905 DH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Johnson, Union | 43 min |
| May 23, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Hardin, Pope | 30 min |
| May 23, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Jackson | 59 min |
| May 23, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Massac | 50 min |
| May 23, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Union | 75 min |
| May 23, 10:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Massac | 28 min |
| May 23, 10:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Massac, Pope | 29 min |
| May 23, 10:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Pulaski | 72 min |
| May 23, 11:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Union | 48 min |
| May 23, 11:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Pulaski | 42 min |
| May 24, 12:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Union | 39 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.