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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Paducah, KY

October 5, 2000Hardin County, Illinois

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Oct 5, 2000, 5:47 PM CDT for Hardin County, Illinois. It was in force for 28 min. 2 reports came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Oct 5, 2000, 5:47 PM CDT (22:47 UTC)
Expired
Oct 5, 2000, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Hardin County, IL

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Oct 5, 5:52 PM CDTTornado F0Cave In Rock, ILA brief tornado touchdown was observed along Route 1, 4 to 5 miles north of the community of Cave-In-Rock. Due to the very remote nature of the area, within the Shawnee National Forest, no damage could be confirmed. The parent thunderstorm displayed very stron
Oct 5, 5:54 PM CDTHail 1.75Lamb, ILGolf ball size hail covered the ground.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 213 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2000-10-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 18 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2000-10-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 155 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
18 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-541 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1498 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
155 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
162 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

545 
WFUS53 KPAH 052247
TORPAH
ILC069-052315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
547 PM CDT THU OCT 5 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HARDIN COUNTY IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 543 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER EAST CENTRAL HARDIN COUNTY...OR ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF
  STURGIS...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. 

  IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF LAMB YOU ARE IN THE DIRECT PATH
  OF THIS STORM

LAT...LON 3755 8832 3746 8822 3750 8808 3759 8814
          3761 8820

DH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 5, 5:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHHardin, Pope38 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.