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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Paducah, KY

April 24, 2002Union County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 24, 2002, 5:31 PM CDT for Union County, Kentucky. It was in force for 59 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 24, 2002, 5:31 PM CDT (22:31 UTC)
Expired: Apr 24, 2002, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Union County, KY

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, 3:30 PM CDT	Tornado 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 211 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 242231
TORPAH
KYC225-242330-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  UNION COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 528 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 12 MILES WEST OF
  MORGANFIELD...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  OVER MORGANFIELD AT 605 PM CDT
  3 MILES SOUTH OF BRECKINRIDGE CENTER AT 610 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.

LAT...LON 3776 8805 3764 8814 3752 8791 3767 8777

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 24, 7:56 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Calloway	3 hr
Apr 24, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Henderson	37 min
Apr 24, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Henderson	16 min
Apr 24, 5:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Daviess	52 min
Apr 24, 5:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Daviess, Henderson	36 min
Apr 24, 5:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Webster	33 min
Apr 24, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	McLean	15 min
Apr 24, 6:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Henderson	50 min
Apr 24, 6:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	McLean	35 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.