Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Oct 24, 2001, 5:24 PM CDT for Daviess County, Kentucky. It was in force for 51 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
- Oct 24, 2001, 5:24 PM CDT (22:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2001, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Daviess County, KY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 5:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Thurston, KY | About a mile north of Thruston, two homes were partially unroofed, and numerous trees were blown down. A few power poles were blown over. Minor damage to homes and carports occurred just northeast of Thruston, consisting mainly of siding blown off. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 11:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 675 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 770 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 274 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 273 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
612 WFUS53 KPAH 242224 TORPAH KYC059-242315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 524 PM CDT WED OCT 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DAVIESS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 524 PM CDT...SPOTTERS OBSERVED A FUNNEL CLOUD OVER OWENSBORO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... RURAL NORTHEASTERN DAVIESS COUNTY AT 540 PM CDT IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER NOW MOVE INTO A BASEMENT...OR INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR ANY STORM DAMAGE TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT...FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Union | 65 min |
| Oct 24, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle, McCracken | 46 min |
| Oct 24, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Graves, Marshall | 46 min |
| Oct 24, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Henderson | 56 min |
| Oct 24, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Crittenden, Livingston | 41 min |
| Oct 24, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Fulton, Hickman | 37 min |
| Oct 24, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Crittenden, Livingston, Lyon | 63 min |
| Oct 24, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Hopkins, Webster | 63 min |
| Oct 24, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Graves, McCracken, Marshall | 61 min |
| Oct 24, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carlisle, Fulton, Hickman | 61 min |
| Oct 24, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Daviess, McLean | 64 min |
| Oct 24, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Henderson | 30 min |
| Oct 24, 5:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Calloway | 40 min |
| Oct 24, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian, Trigg | 53 min |
| Oct 24, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Muhlenberg, Todd | 65 min |
| Oct 24, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian | 29 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.