Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 12, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 24, 2002, 4:35 PM CDT for Butler County, Missouri. It was in force for 40 min. 3 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, 4:35 PM CDT (21:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2002, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Butler County, MO
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:38 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, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado F4 | Hendrickson, MO | The tornado crossed into Butler County in the Mark Twain National Forest, then proceded east-southeast, passing 6 to 7 miles north of Poplar Bluff. An upscale residential subdivision beyond the northern outskirts of Poplar Bluff, just off U.S. Route 67, rece |
| Apr 24, 4:56 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Poplar Bluff, MO | |
| Apr 24, 5:21 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Rombauer, MO | The long-track tornado that crossed much of Carter and Butler Counties briefly touched down again near Rombauer. Numerous trees were down along the short damage track. |
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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 214 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 242135 TORPAH MOC023-242215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 433 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN BUTLER COUNTY IN MISSOURI * UNTIL 515 PM CDT * AT 433 PM CDT...SPOTTERS OBSERVED A FUNNEL CLOUD HALF WAY TO THE GROUND 17 MILES WEST OF HENDRICKSON...MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HENDRICKSON AT 510 PM CDT 6 MILES NORTH OF POPLAR BLUFF AT 515 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, 4:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Carter | 34 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.