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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Paducah, KY

April 24, 2002Gallatin County, Saline County, Illinois

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 24, 2002, 5:10 PM CDT for Gallatin County, Saline County, Illinois. It was in force for 35 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Apr 24, 2002, 5:10 PM CDT (22:10 UTC)
Expired: Apr 24, 2002, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Gallatin County, IL, Saline County, IL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 24, 5:13 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Equality, IL	The tornado briefly touched down in open country and produced no known damage.
Apr 24, 5:30 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Equality, IL

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
Apr 24, 3:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 240 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: 823 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 60 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 242210
TORPAH
ILC059-165-242245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
510 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  GALLATIN COUNTY IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS
  SALINE COUNTY IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 508 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER EQUALITY...
  MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  7 MILES SOUTH OF RIDGWAY AT 520 PM CDT

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE ELDORADO

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 3782 8849 3765 8854 3765 8822 3779 8817

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 24, 3:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jefferson	24 min
Apr 24, 3:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Wayne	44 min
Apr 24, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Hamilton	32 min
Apr 24, 4:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Hamilton, White	34 min
Apr 24, 4:26 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Hamilton, White	2 hr
Apr 24, 4:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Gallatin	27 min
Apr 24, 4:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Gallatin, White	35 min
Apr 24, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jackson, Perry	51 min
Apr 24, 6:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Hamilton, White	39 min
Apr 24, 6:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Gallatin	36 min

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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.