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Tornado Warning 29, NWS Paducah, KY

May 24, 2000Wayne County, Missouri

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 24, 8:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2000-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 284 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2000-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 258 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 23, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHBollinger75 min
May 23, 7:24 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHBollinger51 min
May 23, 7:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCape Girardeau53 min
May 23, 8:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHScott, Stoddard57 min
May 23, 8:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHBollinger63 min
May 23, 8:17 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHScott, Stoddard43 min
May 23, 8:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCape Girardeau31 min
May 23, 8:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHScott81 min
May 23, 8:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHMississippi77 min
May 23, 9:04 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHScott71 min
May 24, 8:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHWayne68 min
May 24, 8:37 AM CDTTornado WarningPAHBollinger23 min
May 24, 8:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCape Girardeau31 min
May 24, 8:50 AM CDTTornado WarningPAHStoddard25 min
May 24, 8:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHScott37 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.