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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Paducah, KY

March 29, 2002Spencer County, Indiana

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Mar 29, 2002, 1:22 PM CST for Spencer County, Indiana. It was in force for 23 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 29, 2002, 1:22 PM CST (19:22 UTC)
Expired: Mar 29, 2002, 1:45 PM CST
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Spencer County, 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
Mar 29, 11:00 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 218 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1685 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 221 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 197 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KPAH 291922
TORPAH
INC147-291945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
122 PM CST FRI MAR 29 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SPENCER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA

* UNTIL 145 PM CST

* AT 121 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF DALE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
RURAL EASTERN SPENCER COUNTY AT 140 PM CST

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.

LAT...LON 3798 8686 3796 8692 3800 8709 3804 8716
          3806 8715 3805 8709 3812 8708 3813 8702
          3818 8702 3815 8683 3810 8678

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 29, 12:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Gibson	49 min
Mar 29, 12:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Posey, Vanderburgh	45 min
Mar 29, 12:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Pike, Warrick	40 min
Mar 29, 1:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Spencer	38 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.