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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Paducah, KY

June 26, 2000Scott County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Jun 26, 2000, 1:53 PM CDT for Scott County, Missouri. It was in force for 27 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, 1:53 PM CDT (18:53 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 2000, 2:20 PM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Scott County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 261 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°0°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.

573 
WFUS53 KPAH 261853
TORPAH
MOC201-261920-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN SCOTT COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 220 PM CDT

* AT 146 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 
  NEAR AND JUST NORTH OF CHAFFEE...MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST. 6 PUBLIC
  REPORTS OF A TORNADO ON THE GROUND WERE RECEIVED BY LAW            
  ENFORCEMENT. A FUNNEL CLOUD HAS BEEN SIGHTED.

TAKE SHELTER IF IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM

LAT...LON 3716 8969 3712 8959 3719 8948 3723 8957

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 1:39 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHCape Girardeau31 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Missouri, 2000Every tornado warning in 2000Tornadoes in 2000

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.