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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2000, 7:15 PM CDT for Christian County, Trigg County, Kentucky. It was in force for 45 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, 7:15 PM CDT (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2000, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Christian County, KY, Trigg County, KY
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, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 3627 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 775 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.6
- Supercell composite
- 6.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
480 WFUS53 KPAH 250016 TORPAH KYC047-221-250100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 715 PM CDT WED MAY 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CHRISTIAN COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY NORTHERN TRIGG COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 715 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF CADIZ...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. SPOTTERS HAVE OBSERVED A FUNNEL CLOUD WITH THIS STORM. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... 5 MILES WEST OF HOPKINSVILLE AT 800 PM CDT A TORNADO DETECTED BY DOPPLER RADAR MEANS THERE IS STRONG ROTATION OBSERVED BY THE RADAR WITHIN THE STORM. A TORNADO IS EITHER LIKELY TO FORM DURING THE WARNING PERIOD...OR HAS ALREADY DEVELOPED. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS LAT...LON 3697 8777 3685 8786 3677 8749 3696 8747
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Christian | 110 min |
| May 24, 7:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Todd | 101 min |
| May 24, 7:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Trigg | 87 min |
| May 24, 8:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Christian, Todd, Trigg | 97 min |
| May 24, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Graves | 42 min |
| May 24, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle | 49 min |
| May 24, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Marshall | 50 min |
| May 24, 11:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Calloway | 44 min |
| May 25, 12:19 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Calloway, Christian, Trigg | 4 hr |
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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.