Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 34, NWS Paducah, KY
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 1:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Scott | 27 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.