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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Jan 3, 2000, 3:26 PM CST for Webster County, Kentucky. It was in force for 34 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, 3:26 PM CST (21:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2000, 4:00 PM CST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Webster County, KY
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, 11:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 182 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 032127 TORPAH KYC233-032200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 326 PM CST MON JAN 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WEBSTER COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY * UNTIL 400 PM CST * AT 326 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER NORTHEASTERN CRITTENDEN COUNTY...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF MARION...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CST MONDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHERN ILLINOIS AND SOUTHWEST INDIANA AND WESTERN KENTUCKY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 10:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Ballard, McCracken | 47 min |
| Jan 3, 10:45 AM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Carlisle | 30 min |
| Jan 3, 11:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Union | 31 min |
| Jan 3, 11:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Henderson | 30 min |
| Jan 3, 12:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Daviess | 36 min |
| Jan 3, 2:19 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | McCracken | 3 hr |
| Jan 3, 2:36 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle | 3 hr |
| Jan 3, 3:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Fulton | 29 min |
| Jan 3, 3:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Hickman | 29 min |
| Jan 3, 3:25 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Henderson | 110 min |
| Jan 3, 3:32 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Fulton, Graves, Hickman | 118 min |
| Jan 3, 3:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Graves, Hickman | 35 min |
| Jan 3, 3:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Daviess, Henderson, McLean | 32 min |
| Jan 3, 4:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Daviess | 33 min |
| Jan 3, 5:01 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Crittenden, Daviess, Hopkins, McLean, Webster | 3 hr |
| Jan 3, 5:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian, Hopkins, Muhlenberg | 39 min |
| Jan 3, 5:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | McLean | 21 min |
| Jan 3, 5:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Calloway, Trigg | 30 min |
| Jan 3, 5:55 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Calloway, Christian, Daviess, Henderson, Hopkins and 5 more | 2 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.