Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 24, 2002, 4:11 PM CDT for Carter County, Missouri. It was in force for 34 min. 2 reports 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
- Apr 24, 2002, 4:11 PM CDT (21:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2002, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Carter County, MO
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 195 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 4:13 PM CDT | Tornado F4 | Van Buren, MO | The tornado damage path began on the west side of Van Buren, right along the Current River, and crossed U.S. Route 60 very close to the Current River bridge. Two businesses in Van Buren, a lodge and a restaurant, were heavily damaged by F-2 intensity winds. Th |
| Apr 24, 4:15 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Van Buren, MO |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 252 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
- 749 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -185 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 776 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 225 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KPAH 242111 TORPAH MOC035-242145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 411 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CARTER COUNTY IN MISSOURI * UNTIL 445 PM CDT * AT 410 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION OVER VAN BUREN...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... 2 MILES NORTH OF ELLSINORE AT 425 PM CDT 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 11:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carter | 50 min |
| Apr 24, 12:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carter, Ripley | 24 min |
| Apr 24, 12:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Butler | 42 min |
| Apr 24, 7:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Scott, Stoddard, Wayne | 3 hr |
| Apr 24, 3:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carter | 57 min |
| Apr 24, 4:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Butler | 40 min |
| Apr 24, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Wayne | 39 min |
| Apr 24, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Bollinger | 58 min |
| Apr 24, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carter | 23 min |
| Apr 24, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Butler, Stoddard | 62 min |
| Apr 24, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Wayne | 47 min |
| Apr 24, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Cape Girardeau | 43 min |
| Apr 24, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Wayne | 44 min |
| Apr 24, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Butler, Stoddard | 36 min |
| Apr 24, 6:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Scott, Stoddard | 25 min |
| Apr 24, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | New Madrid | 64 min |
| Apr 24, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Butler | 47 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.