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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Paducah, KY

July 28, 2001Vanderburgh County, Warrick County, Indiana

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Jul 28, 2001, 7:56 PM CDT for Vanderburgh County, Warrick County, Indiana. It was in force for 49 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued
Jul 28, 2001, 7:56 PM CDT (00:56 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 2001, 8:45 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Vanderburgh County, IN, Warrick County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 231 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2001-07-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1142 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2001-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 104 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1142 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
929 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
121 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
2.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KPAH 290058
TORPAH
INC163-173-290145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
756 PM CDT SAT JUL 28 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  VANDERBURGH COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA
  WARRICK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA

* UNTIL 845 PM CDT

* AT 753 PM CDT...A TRAINED SPOTTER OBSERVED A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR 
  THE VANDERBURGH COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS IN EVANSVILLE.  MOVEMEHNT WAS 
  NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. 

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
  STEVENSON
  DARMSTADT
  CHANDLER



LAT...LON 3811 8764 3797 8753 3809 8718 3819 8728

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 7:12 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHVanderburgh, Warrick48 min
Jul 29, 3:26 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHGibson2 hr

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Indiana, 2001Every tornado warning in 2001Tornadoes in 2001

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.