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Tornado Warning 29, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2000, 8:21 AM CDT for Wayne County, Missouri. It was in force for 39 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 24, 2000, 8:21 AM CDT (13:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2000, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Wayne County, MO
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 24, 8:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 271 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
- 284 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -637 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1401 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
289 WFUS53 KPAH 241322 TORPAH MOC223-241400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 821 AM CDT WED MAY 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI * UNTIL 900 AM CDT * AT 821 AM CDT...LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO 10 MILES NORTH OF GREENVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF GREENVILLE AT 835 AM CDT A TORNADO HAS BEEN OBSERVED WITH THIS STORM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. GO TO THE BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR LAT...LON 3743 9048 3731 9065 3698 9034 3703 9020
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 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, 8:37 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.