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Tornado Warning 38, NWS Paducah, KY

October 5, 2000Webster County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Oct 5, 2000, 6:07 PM CDT for Webster 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, 6:07 PM CDT (23:07 UTC)
Expired: Oct 5, 2000, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Webster County, KY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Oct 5, 6:20 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Clay, KY
Oct 5, 6:20 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Wheatcroft, KY	Several buildings in the Clay and Wheatcroft areas sustained damage due to powerful thunderstorm winds. A metal roof blew off the old John Deere building in Clay, and it landed in a yard. Another metal building used to store farm equipment sustained extensive

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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 186 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.

729 
WFUS53 KPAH 052307
TORPAH
KYC233-052345-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WEBSTER COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT

* AT 603 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 7 MILES WEST OF CLAY...OR ABOUT 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  STURGIS...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  OVER CLAY AT 615 PM CDT
  4 MILES SOUTH OF DIXON AT 625 PM CDT

LAT...LON 3747 8793 3736 8780 3760 8749 3764 8773

DH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 5, 5:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Crittenden, Union	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

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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.