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Tornado Warning 37, NWS Paducah, KY

October 5, 2000Crittenden County, Union County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Oct 5, 2000, 5:52 PM CDT for Crittenden County, Union County, Kentucky. It was in force for 38 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, 5:52 PM CDT (22:52 UTC)
Expired: Oct 5, 2000, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Crittenden County, KY, Union County, KY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Oct 5, 6:00 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Sturgis, KY	Quarter to golf-ball size hail was reported in Sullivan and Sturgis.
Oct 5, 6:11 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Countywide, KY	Trees were down across the county. Several structures were damaged.

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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 207 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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.

000 
WFUS53 KPAH 052251
TORPAH

KYC055-225-052330-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CRITTENDEN COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY
  UNION COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 548 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 6 MILES WEST OF STURGIS...MOVING EAST AT y45 MPH.

LAT...LON 3770 8812 3753 8804 3735 8817 3751 8796
          3768 8774 3784 8793

DH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 5, 6:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Webster	38 min
Oct 5, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Hopkins	27 min
Oct 5, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	McLean, Muhlenberg	44 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Kentucky, 2000 Every tornado warning in 2000 Tornadoes 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.