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Tornado Warning 31, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2000, 8:50 AM CDT for Stoddard County, Missouri. It was in force for 25 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2000, 8:50 AM CDT (13:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2000, 9:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stoddard 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, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 225 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.
285 WFUS53 KPAH 241351 TORPAH MOC207-241415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 850 AM CDT WED MAY 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... STODDARD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI * UNTIL 915 AM CDT * AT 850 AM CDT...SPOTTERS REPORTED A WALL CLOUD NEAR ZALMA... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF BLOOMFIELD AT 915 AM CDT TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS
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, 8:21 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, 8:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Scott | 37 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.