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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Paducah, KY

April 21, 2002Spencer County, Indiana

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 21, 2002, 5:29 PM CDT for Spencer County, Indiana. It was in force for 31 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: Apr 21, 2002, 5:29 PM CDT (22:29 UTC)
Expired: Apr 21, 2002, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 31 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
Apr 21, 12:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 229 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: 57 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -146 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1020 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 166 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 177 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 212229
TORPAH
INC147-212300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
528 PM CDT SUN APR 21 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 523 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 5 MILES 
NORTHEAST OF SANTA CLAUS...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. A STORM SPOTTER 
REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD IN THE AREA.

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 3828 8693 3810 8695 3803 8626 3825 8624
PS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 21, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Gibson, Pike, Warrick	22 min
Apr 21, 4:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Posey	51 min
Apr 21, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Vanderburgh	28 min
Apr 21, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Warrick	36 min
Apr 21, 5:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Posey, Vanderburgh, Warrick	4 hr
Apr 21, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Spencer	40 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.