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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Jan 3, 2000, 9:39 AM CST for Johnson County, Illinois. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 3, 2000, 9:39 AM CST (15:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2000, 10:05 AM CST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Johnson County, IL
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 7:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 251 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
- 105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 699 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 255 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPAH 031540 TORPAH ILC087-031605- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 939 AM CST MON JAN 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... JOHNSON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS * UNTIL 1005 AM CST * AT 939 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF VIENNA...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MARION...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LEAVE AUTOMOBILES AND MOBILE HOMES...WHICH OFFER LITTLE PROTECTION FROM A TORNADO. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE... MOVE TO A STURDY BUILDING OR UNDERGROUND SHELTER. AS A LAST RESORT... SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH...CULVERT OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 PM CST MONDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHERN ILLINOIS AND WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 8:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Union | 36 min |
| Jan 3, 9:01 AM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Alexander, Union | 29 min |
| Jan 3, 9:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Franklin, Williamson | 37 min |
| Jan 3, 9:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Johnson | 37 min |
| Jan 3, 9:28 AM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Williamson | 32 min |
| Jan 3, 9:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Pope, Saline | 27 min |
| Jan 3, 9:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Alexander, Pulaski | 31 min |
| Jan 3, 10:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Massac, Pulaski | 47 min |
| Jan 3, 12:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Union | 34 min |
| Jan 3, 2:19 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Massac | 3 hr |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.