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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Paducah, KY

January 3, 2000Williamson County, Illinois

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Jan 3, 2000, 9:28 AM CST for Williamson County, Illinois. It was in force for 32 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: Jan 3, 2000, 9:28 AM CST (15:28 UTC)
Expired: Jan 3, 2000, 10:00 AM CST
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Williamson County, IL

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 3, 7:00 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 267 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 810 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 81 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 136 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 154 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.

000 
TTAA00 KPAH 031531
TORPAH
ILC199-031600-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
928 AM CST MON JAN 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WILLIAMSON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 1000 AM CST

* AT 929 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
    A TORNADO JUST WEST OF CRAB ORCHARD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING THE POSSIBLE TORNADO WILL BE
    NEAR CORINTH BY 945 AM CST.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 PM CST MONDAY AFTERNOON
FOR SOUTHERN ILLINOIS AND WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. A
TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 PM CST MONDAY
AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHERN ILLINOIS AND WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST
MISSOURI.

LAT...LON 3776 8910 3763 8894 3782 8872 3787 8885

The office that day

Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 3, 8:54 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Union	36 min
Jan 3, 9:01 AM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Alexander, Union	29 min
Jan 3, 9:23 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Franklin, Williamson	37 min
Jan 3, 9:23 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Johnson	37 min
Jan 3, 9:39 AM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Johnson	26 min
Jan 3, 9:48 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Pope, Saline	27 min
Jan 3, 9:59 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Alexander, Pulaski	31 min
Jan 3, 10:28 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Massac, Pulaski	47 min
Jan 3, 12:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Union	34 min
Jan 3, 2:19 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Massac	3 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.