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Tornado Warning 34, NWS Paducah, KY

June 26, 2000Cape Girardeau County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Jun 26, 2000, 1:39 PM CDT for Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. It was in force for 31 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
Jun 26, 2000, 1:39 PM CDT (18:39 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 2000, 2:10 PM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Cape Girardeau County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 273 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 2000-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1058 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 2000-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1058 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-84 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1117 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KPAH 261839
TORPAH
MOC031-261910-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
139 PM CDT MON JUN 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN CAPE GIRARDEAU COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 210 PM CDT

* AT 136 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO JUST SOUTH OF
  GORDONVILLE...OR ABOUT 4 MILES NORTH OF CHAFFEE...MOVING EAST AT 
  5 MPH.

TAKE COVER IF YOU ARE SOUTH OF GORDONVILLE.

LAT...LON 3726 8980 3720 8969 3727 8953 3738 8954

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 1:53 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHScott27 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.