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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Jan 3, 2000, 3:40 PM CST for Graves County, Hickman County, Kentucky. It was in force for 35 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 3, 2000, 3:40 PM CST (21:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2000, 4:15 PM CST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Graves County, KY, Hickman County, KY
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 3:47 PM CST | Hail 2.75 | Mayfield, KY | Baseball size hail was reported by emergency management officials. |
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 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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 208 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 032141 TORPAH KYC083-105-032215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 340 PM CST MON JAN 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HICKMAN COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY GRAVES COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY * UNTIL 415 PM CST * AT 340 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MAYFIELD...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTH OF FULTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF MAYFIELD AT 410 PM CST 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, 3:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Webster | 34 min |
| Jan 3, 3:32 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Fulton, Graves, Hickman | 118 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.